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S 1609

Eadbald, king of Kent, grants land at Adisham, Kent, to Christ Church, Canterbury. A.D. 616

Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church

[A]nno dominice incarnationis .dcxvi. Ego Eadbaldus rex Cantie filius Æthelberti regis, a Deo compunctus et per eius misericordiam perque admonitionem domni Laurentii archiepiscopi conuersus a prauitate uite mee, pro recuperanda salute anime mee proque spe remunerationis future, concedo ecclesie Christi in Dorobernia et familie in eadem =cclesia Deo seruienti terram iuris mei nomine Ædesham, cum campis, siluis, pascuis et omnibus ad eam rite pertinentibus, liberam ab omnibus secularibus seruitiis et fiscali tributo, exceptis istis tribus, expedicione, pontis et arcis constructione.

Edition: Charters of Christ Church, Canterbury, ed. N. P. Brooks and S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters (The British Academy, forthcoming), no. 1. For apparatus criticus and a detailed commentary see this edition.