A.D. 827. Æthelwulf, king, to Chertsey Abbey; confirmation of land and privileges. Latin.
Archive: Chertsey
MS: BL Cotton Vitell. A. xiii, 32v-33v (s. xiii)
Printed: K 222; Thorpe, pp. 78-9; B 394.
Comment: Gelling, ECTV, no. 318, spurious, date is too early for King Æthelwulf (unless he was acting only as a sub-king) and for Swithhun as bishop of Winchester among the signatories.
A.D. 838 (Canterbury, 19 Nov.). Æthelwulf, king of Kent, to Ceolnoth, archbishop; grant of one hide (mansio) at Eastre(a)stadelham. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, p. 392 (s. xiii)
Short version
2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, 199r (s. xii)
3. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. C., 35r (s. xv)
4. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. P, 19v (s. xii)
5. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, 320r (s. xiii)
6. Oxford, Bodleian, Tanner 223, 14r (s. xvi)
Printed: Twysden, X Scriptores, col 2218 ex MS 2; K 1046 ex MS 5; B 419 ex MS 1; B 420 ex MS 5; Fleming 1997, p. 128 (no. 35) ex MS 4.
Translated: Jenkins, Lyminge, p. 39.
Comments: Jenkins, Lyminge, pp. 39-40; Deanesly 1927, p. 4 n. 3; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 179-81; Harrison 1976, p. 116, on dating clause; Brooks 1984, pp. 145, 361 n. 76; O'Neill 1986; Edwards 1988, pp. 278-9, authentic; Keynes 1993/1, p. 122 n. 54, cited.
A.D. 838 for ?839 (Faversham, Kent, 9 March). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex and of Kent, to Wernoth, abbot, and the familia of St Augustine's; grant of 5 sulungs (aratra) at Lenham, Kent. Latin with bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, St Augustine's
MS: BL Cotton Jul. D. ii, 93rv (s. xiii)
Printed: Kelly, St Augustine's, no. 19.
Comments: Davis, Thorne, p. 32; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 77-9, probably authentic, although the beneficiary's name may have been altered.
Note. Previously listed as S 1649 (the MS was wrongly listed as S 324 MS 2).
(1) A.D. 839 (Wye, Kent). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to Ithda or Dudda; grant of land at Canterbury. (2) Confirmation by Alfred, king of Wessex and note of purchase by Lulla from Æthelwald (A.D. 871 x 888). (3) Later note of purchase by Archbishop Dunstan and grant to St Martin's, Canterbury (A.D. 959 x 988). Latin with English.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MS: BL Cotton Aug. ii. 28 (s. ix2; BM Facs., ii. 28)
Printed: K 241; B 426; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 1.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, later and badly written; Sweet, OET, p. 436 (no. 24); B i, p. 597, 'written by a scribe ignorant of the langage'; Stevenson 1914, p. 698 n. 44, contemporary; Deanesly 1927, p. 4 n. 3; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 181-3; Ward 1951; Tatton-Brown 1984, p. 7; Brooks 1984, p. 173, copy written at time of Lulla's purchase, 'appallingly messy and inaccurate travesty', pp. 251, 378 n. 153, Dunstan's endorsement in hand of s. x2; Sparks and Tatton-Brown 1987, p. 205, on Dunstan's endorsement; Abels 1988, p. 55; Smyth 1995, pp. 372-3; Lapidge 1996, p. 453, notes on latinity.
A.D. 840 (Southampton). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to Duda, his minister; grant of 10 hides (cassati) at Asshedoune (cf. Ashdown Park in Ashbury, Berks.). Latin.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 209r (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 245r (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 107 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 34)
Printed: K 246 ex MS 2; B 431 ex MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 4; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 686 (no. 1271) ex MS 1.
Comments: Stevenson 1904, p. 235 n. 2, the formulas agree with genuine charters of Æthelwulf; PN Berks., ii. 344-5; Gelling, ECTV, no. 21, authentic; Keynes 1988, p. 185 n. 3, on formulation; O'Donovan, Sherborne, p. 9, on similarity to S 290; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1114-15, on links with S 290; Smyth 1995, pp. 372-3; Abrams 1996, pp. 30, 34, on MS sources, pp. 47-9, on estate.
A.D. 841. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to Beornmod, bishop of Rochester; grant of 2 sulungs (aratra) at Holborough, Kent. Latin.
Archive: Rochester
MS: Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), 139rv (s. xii1; facsimile)
Printed: Hearne, Textus Roffensis, pp. 100-1; K 252; B 437; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 7; Campbell, Rochester, no. 20.
Comments: Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 179, 184; Campbell, Rochester, pp. xvi, xxiii, no suspicious features.
A.D. 841 [for 840] (Æscantun, 26 December). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to Eadberht, deacon; grant of 15 hides (cassati) at Halstock, Devon, with a later confirmation at a meeting at Edington, Wilts. (c. A.D. 852 x 855 [? Easter 854]). Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Sherborne
MS: BL Add. 46487, 7v-9r (s. xii med.)
Printed: Hearne, Collections, iii. 447; Finberg, ECW, no. 567; O'Donovan, Sherborne, no. 3.
Comments: Grundy, Dorset 1936, pp. 112-15, bounds cover parishes of Halstock and Closworth (now Somerset); Forsberg 1950, p. 217, bounds cover western part of Halstock only; Finberg, ECW, no. 567, substantially genuine although the two witness-lists have been transposed; Keynes 1988, p. 185 n. 3; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. xxv, xxx, 8-11, authentic but interpolated and altered, chrismon suggests date of late 10th century or early 11th century; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1114-15, 1122-3, authentic, compare S 288; Smyth 1995, pp. 376, 377.
A.D. 842. Æthelwulf, king of the South Peoples, to Ceolmund, his præfectus; grant of 1 sulung (aratrum) and a viculus near Rochester. Latin.
Archive: Rochester
MS: Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), 4r (s. xiv)
Printed: Thorpe, Reg. Roff., p. 23, claims to print from autograph at Rochester but his text is apparently from the Liber Temporalium; K 254 ex Thorpe; B 439 ex Thorpe; Campbell, Rochester, no. 21.
Comments: Deanesly 1927, p. 4 n. 3; Campbell, Rochester, pp. xxiii-iv, no obvious technical faults, p. 24 n. 1, on royal style; Whitelock, EHD, p. 370, Thorpe used Liber Temporalium.
Note. In Campbell's edition the witness-list is printed incorrectly. The subscriptions seem originally to have been arranged in four columns, and these have been read horizontally instead of vertically (cf. B 439).
A.D. 842 (Andredesdune). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to Eanwulf, his princeps; grant of 25 hides (cassati) at Ditcheat and 5 at Lottisham, Somerset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 168r (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt 1, 182v-183r (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 91 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 33)
Printed: K 253 and vol. vi. 227 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 56 (no. 114); B 438 ex MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 8; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 469-70 (no. 851) ex MS 1.
Comments: Grundy, Somerset, pp. 55-8, 72-4, on bounds; Forsberg 1950, p. 201; Finberg, ECW, no. 405, authentic, meeting-place may have been Andersey (now Nyland), Somerset; Brooks 1971, p. 81 n. 2, on immunity clause; Scott 1981, pp. 112, 201 n. 106; Costen 1988, pp. 46-7, on bounds; Edwards 1988, p. 44, on estate history; Costen 1992, p. 43, bounds probably 10th-century; Keynes 1992, pp. 56-7 n. 19, on beneficiary; Keynes 1994/2, p. 1115, contemporary diplomatic, meeting-place may have been in the Weald; Abrams 1996, pp. 29, 33, 38, on MS sources, p. 47 n. 25, on correct reading of Andredesdune (against Andredeseme and Andredesdime in existing editions), pp. 45, 109-12, 163-4, 216-17, 222, on estate history, Grundy's interpretation of bounds is not entirely convincing.
A.D. 843 (Mereworth, Kent, 28 May). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex and Kent, to Æthelmod, his minister; grant of 10 sulungs (aratra) at (Little) Chart, Kent, with woodland and swine pastures. Latin with bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MS: BL Stowe Ch. 17 (s. ix med.; OS Facs., iii. 17; Making of England, p. 257 (no, 232); Parsons 1939, pl. 1)
Printed: B 442.
Comments: Sweet, OET, pp. 436-7 (no. 25); Stevenson 1904, p. 203 n. 1, in English script but apparently drafted by a Frank; Stevenson 1914, p. 699 n. 48, contemporary; Deanesly 1927, p. 4 n. 3; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 184-8, on place-names; Parsons 1939, pp. 15-19, genuine and contemporary, written by Canterbury scribe; Ward 1945, on swine-pastures; Stenton 1955, pp. 47-8, continental draftsman; Chaplais 1965, pp. 56-7, Canterbury scribe of main text and witnesses also wrote B 310, cf. formulation of S 1269 (= 1973, pp. 37-8); Chaplais 1968, p. 332, original, discusses attached scedule of witnesses (= 1973, p. 84); Witney 1976, pp. 262-3, on swine-pastures; Keynes 1978, p. 172 n. 4, on chrismon; Sawyer 1983, p. 295; Brooks 1984, pp. 147-8, 360 n. 67, contemporary; Rumble 1984, p. 46, compares names in memorandum and text; Kelly 1990, p. 44, on schedule of witnesses; Making of England, pp. 256-7 (no. 232); Keynes 1993/1, p. 126; Lapidge 1996, p. 447, notes on latinity.
A.D. 844 (Winchester, 5 Nov.). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to the church at Sherborne; grant of privileges ('First Decimation'). Latin.
Archive: Sherborne
MS: BL Add. 46487, 17v-18v (s. xii med.)
Printed: Hearne, Collections, iii. 450-1, incomplete; Finberg, ECW, no. 566; O'Donovan, Sherborne, no. 5.
Comments: Finberg, ECW, no. 566, authentic basis, cf. pp. 194-6, 206-9, for discussion; O'Donovan 1973, p. 108, dubious; Keynes 1980, p. 114 n. 103, spurious; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, p. 233, spurious; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. xx-xxi, xxx-xxxii, liii, 15-18, spurious, Sherborne version of questionable '844 decimation' text. also available at Malmesbury, cf. S 294a, 294b; Keynes 1994/2, p. 1114 n. 3, pp. 1115-16, probably spurious.
A.D. 814 or 855 for 844 (Winchester, 5 Nov.). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to the Church; general grant of lands and privileges ('First Decimation'). Latin.
Archive: Malmesbury and Crowland
MSS: 1. BL Arundel 178, 35rv (s. xvi)
2. BL Royal 13. D. ii, 28rv (s. xii)
Printed: Savile, Ingulph, pp. 862-3 ex MS 1; Fulman 1684, p. 17, ex MS 1; Spelman, Concilia, i. 348-52; Wilkins, Concilia, i. 183-4 ex MSS 1, 2; K 275 ex Wilkins; Thorpe, pp. 111-12 ex Wilkins; Stubbs, William of Malmesbury, G.R., i. 119-20 ex MS 2; Birch, Ingulf, pp. 28-9, ex MS 1; B 483 ex MS 2; B 484 ex MS 1; Hervey 1907, pp. 582-5, with translation.
This text is also found in Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, s.a. 854 and in Flores Historiarum, s.a. 854, and is printed from editions of these: Wilkins, Concilia, i. 184-5; HS, pp. 640-1; B 485; Pierquin, Conciles, pp. 499-500.Comments: HS, pp. 638, 641, doubtful; Stevenson 1904, p. 190, spurious; Hervey 1907, p. 584; Stenton 1918, p. 445 n. 57, spurious (= Stenton 1970, p. 59 n. 3); Finberg, ECW, chapter vi, esp. pp. 193-6, may have authentic basis; Brooks 1974, pp. 230-1, rejects Finberg's assessment; Keynes 1980, p. 114 n. 103, spurious; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, p. 233, spurious; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. 15-18, spurious; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1115-16, probably spurious, witness-list and date from genuine charter of 844; cf. S 294, 294b.
Note. Previously listed as S 314.
A.D. 844 (Winchester, 5 Nov.). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to the Church; grant of privileges, with particular mention of lands belonging to the church of Malmesbury at Ellendune (Wroughton), Wilts. (30 hides); Elmhamstede (15 hides); and at Wootton (10 hides), Charlton near Malmesbury (20 hides), Minety (5 hides), and Rodbourne, Wilts. (10 hides). ('First Decimation'.) Latin.
Archive: Malmesbury
MSS: 1. BL Lansdowne 417, 13r-14r (s. xiv/xv)
2. PRO E 164/24, 126rv (s. xiii)
3. Bodleian, Wood empt. 5, 25r-27v (s. xiii)
Printed: K 1048; Thorpe, pp. 94-6; HS, pp. 630-2; Brewer, Reg. Malm., i. 293-5; B 447; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 47.
Comments: HS, pp. 630, 638, 640, questionable; Stevenson 1904, p. 199, dubious; Robertson, Charters, p. 275, highly suspicious; Darlington 1955, p. 90, 'presumably a forgery'; Watkin 1956, p. 212 and n. 57; Finberg, ECW, no. 200, authentic basis, cf. chapter vi; Finberg, ECWM, no. 68, spurious; Biddle et al. 1956, p. 466 n. 3; Keynes 1980, p. 114 n. 103, spurious; Keynes and Lapidge, p. 233, spurious; Edwards 1988, p. 107, on Rodbourne; O' Donovan, Sherborne, pp. 15-18, spurious; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1115-16, probably spurious, date and witness-list from a genuine charter of 844; cf. S 294, 294a.
Note. Previously listed as S 322.
A.D. 844. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to the church at Sherborne; grant of 2 hides (cassati) at Osanstoc. Latin.
Archive: Sherborne
MS: BL Add. 46487, 14r (s. xii)
Printed: Hearne, Collections, iii. 449, incomplete; Finberg, ECW, no. 642; O'Donovan, Sherborne, no. 4.
Comments: Finberg, ECW, no. 642, spurious; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. xxii, xxv, xxxvi, 11-12, very poor forgery, probably produced after episcopal seat moved to Salisbury, formulation and witness-list a mixture of 7th- and 9th-century elements, Osanstoc possibly formed part of Stoke Abbott, Dorset.
A.D. 845 (Wye, Kent, 16 Nov.). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex and Kent, to Badanoth, his apparitor; grant of land near Canterbury, in return for 15 mancuses of gold. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MS: BL Cotton Aug. ii. 60 (s. ix med.; BM Facs., ii. 29; Keller 1906, pl. 1)
Printed: K 259; B 449; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 11.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, contemporary; Sweet, OET, p. 437 (no. 26); Stevenson 1914, p. 697 n. 41, contemporary; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 188-9, on place-names; Parsons 1939, pp. 14, 24-6, genuine and contemporary, contemporary endorsement is scribal memorandum; Harrison 1976, p. 116, on dating clause; Keynes 1978, p. 172 n. 4, on chrismon; Brooks 1984, p. 148, p. 360 n. 67, contemporary, p. 361 n. 70, scribe also wrote S 1194, 1510; Keynes 1990, p. 252 n. 101; Keynes 1993/1, p. 126, on witness-list; Lapidge 1996, p. 448, on latinity.
A.D. 845 (Wye, Kent, 16 Nov.). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex and Kent, to Wynhere, abbot of St Augustine's; grant of 1 sulung (aratrum) at Lillicesora (? Lynsore, near Bossingham, Kent), in return for 70 mancuses. Latin with bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, St Augustine's
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Jul. D. ii, 106rv (s. xiii)
2. PRO E 164/27, 83v-84r (s. xiii)
Printed: B 853 ex MS 1; Kelly, St Augustine's, no. 20 ex MSS, 1, 2.
Comments: Turner 1915, p. xxix; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 273-5, on place-names; Ward 1949, p. 40; Brooks 1984, p. 361 n. 76; Kelly, St Augustine's, no. 80-2, authentic.
A.D. 847 [= 846] (Dorchester, Dorset, 26 Dec.). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to himself; grant of 20 hides (cassati) om Homme (at South Hams, Devon). Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Cotton Ch. viii. 36 (s. ix med.; BM Facs., ii. 30; Rose-Troup 1929, pl. 14)
Printed: K 260; B 451; Earle, pp. 119-22; Hall 1908, i. 8; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 12; Pierquin, Conciles, pp. 489-90; Hooke 1990/1, p. 209, bounds only; Hooke 1994, p. 105, bounds only.
Translated: Whitelock, EHD, no. 88 (pp. 522-4).
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, doubtful; Maitland 1897, pp. 246-7; Sweet, OET, pp. 433-4 (no. 20); Vinogradoff 1893, p. 14; Stevenson 1899, p. 36, contemporary; Hall 1908, i. 2-3; Stevenson 1914, p. 698 n. 44, contemporary; Rose-Troup 1929, pp. 266-76; Parsons 1939, p. 14, genuine; Finberg 1953, no. 10; Sisam 1953, p. 124, cited; Vleeskruyer 1953, p. 42; Stenton 1955, p. 55, cited; Chaplais 1965, pp. 57-8, the script reappears in Bodleian, Bodley 426, and in two versions of S 1438, probably drafted by the bishop of Winchester or bishop of Sherborne, endorsed by John Chase of Winchester (cf. endorsements of S 416, 636, 649, 1008) (= 1973, pp. 33, 38-9); Jackson 1968-70, on detail of bounds; Finberg 1969, pp. 11-23, including discussion of bounds; Brooks 1971, p. 81, on immunity clause; Stenton 1971, p. 308, original; Finberg 1972, p. 449; Padel 1973, on detail of bounds; Brooks 1974, p. 224 n. 1, queries the extent of the estate as defined in Finberg 1969; Harrison 1976, p. 116 n. 17, should be dated 846 by modern reckoning; PN Dorset, i. 347; Keynes 1978, p. 172 n. 4, on chrismon; Whitelock, EHD, p. 522; Brown 1980, p. 13, on script; Keynes 1980, p. 32 n. 51, cited; Brooks 1984, p. 324, note on script; Padel, CoPNE, p. 173; Brown 1986, pp. 120, 129, on script; Abels 1988, p. 55; Morrish 1988, p. 513; Hooke 1990/1, pp. 195-200, 205-6, on bounds; Hooke 1991-2, pp. 85-6; Reynolds 1992, p. 216 n. 16, p. 218 n. 32, on bookland (= 1984, p. 325 n. 4, 330 n. 34) Keynes 1993/1, p. 126, cited; Hooke 1994, pp. 105-12, on bounds; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1116-18, in West Saxon diplomatic tradition, queries Chaplais's script identification; Brown 1996, p. 171, on script; Lapidge 1996, p. 448, notes on latinity; Crick 1997, rejects Chaplais's script identification.
A.D. 850. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, and Athelstan, king of Kent, to Ealhhere, princeps; grant of land near Rochester, with a church dedicated to St Mary. Latin.
Archive: Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), 9r (s. xiv)
Printed: Thorpe, Reg. Roff., pp. 23-4, claims to print from the original at Rochester, but his text is clearly from the Liber Temporalium; K 264 ex Thorpe; B 460 ex Thorpe; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 16; Campbell, Rochester, no. 22.
Comments: Brooks 1971, p. 73 n. 5, of very doubtful authenticity; Campbell, Rochester, pp. xxiii-iv, no obvious technical faults; Whitelock, EHD, p. 370; Tatton-Brown 1984, p. 15, on topography; Keynes 1993/1, p. 125, on beneficiary.
A.D. 850 (Wilton, Wilts.). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to Ealhhere, his princeps; grant of 40 hides (cassati) at Lenham, Kent, with rights in Blean wood. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, St Augustine's
MSS: 1. BL Add. 53710, 223rv (s. xiv)
2. BL Cotton Claud. D. x, 62v-63r (s. xiv)
3. BL Cotton Jul. D. ii, 133v (s. xiii)
4. PRO Ch.R. 20 Edw. II, m. 2
5. PRO Ch.R. 36 Edw. III, m. 7
6. PRO Ch.R. 8 Hen. IV, m. 6
7. PRO Pat. R. 2 Hen. VI, pt 3, m. 5
8. PRO Pat. R. 4 Edw. IV, pt 4, m. 29
9. PRO Pat. R. 14 Hen. VII, pt 1, m. 16
Printed: Twysden, X Scriptores, cols 2126-7 ex MS 1; Alford 1663, iii. 91; K 1049 ex MS 2; B 459 ex MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 48; Kelly, St Augustine's, no. 21 ex MSS, 2, 3.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, dubious or spurious; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 189-92, on place-names; Witney 1976, pp. 246-7, 249, 251, 252, on swine-pastures; Brooks 1984, p. 169, West Saxon formulation; Keynes 1988, p. 185 n. 3, on similarity to S 301; Keynes 1993/1, p. 125, on beneficiary; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1118-19, on formulation; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 84-7, authentic, MS 3 is a version of S 300 with the name of the beneficiary altered, cf. S 324.
A.D. 850. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to the church of St Peter, Malmesbury; grant of 10 hides (mansiones) at Dauntsey, Wilts. Latin.
Archive: Malmesbury
MSS: 1. BL Lansdowne 417, 14rv (s. xiv/xv)
2. PRO E 164/24, 126v-127r (s. xiii)
3. Bodleian, Wood empt. 5, 27v-28v (s. xiii)
Printed: K 263; Brewer, Reg. Malm., i. 295-6; B 457; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 15.
Comments: Darlington 1955, p. 88, may be based on authentic material; Watkin 1956, p. 212 and n. 57; Finberg, ECW, no. 202, authentic, apparently abbreviated from a lost original; Keynes 1988, p. 185 n. 3; Keynes 1994/2, p. 1118, may not originally have been in favour of Malmesbury; Kelly, St Augustine's, p. 85, on links with S 300.
A.D. 854 (Wilton, Wilts., 22 April). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to the Church; general grant of land and privileges ('Second Decimation'). Latin.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 12v (s. xiii)
2. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 107v-108r (s. xii)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 100-1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 514 (no. 6); Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 36-7; B 471; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 14.
Comments: Keynes 1980, p. 11 n. 14, spurious; Wormald 1982, p. 140; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, pp. 233-4 n. 23, derives ultimately from 11th-century forgery; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1119-22, esp. p. 1121 n. 5, authentic basis; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 14, abbreviated version of privilege such as S 303-5, 307-8, with section on specific application omitted; see also comments to S 303-5, 307-8..
A.D. 854 (Wilton, Wilts., 22 April). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to the Church; general grant of lands and privileges with a list of the Glastonbury estates affected, namely 5 hides at Buckland Newton, Dorset; 6 at Pennard, Somerset; 1 at Cetenes felda; 6 at Cerawycombe (? Crowcombe, Somerset); 10 hides at Sowy (cf. Middlezoy, Westonzoyland), 3 at Puriton, 1.5 at Montacute (Lodegaresbergh), Somerset; 1.5 at Culmstock, 0.5 at Monk Okehampton and 0.5 at Braunton, Devon ('Second Decimation'). Latin.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 59r (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 67v (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 136 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 34)
Printed: K 1050 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 42 (no. 62) ex MS 2; Thorpe, pp. 106-7 ex MS 2; B 472 ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., i. 143-4 (no. 202) ex MS 1.
Comments: HS, pp. 638, 640, doubtful; Stevenson 1904, pp. 186-91, 199, dubious; Stenton 1918, p. 445 n. 57, spurious (= Stenton 1970, p. 59 n. 3); Robinson, Charters, p. 275, dubious; Turner 1951; Finberg 1953, p. 32 n. 12 a; Finberg, ECW, no. 408, authentic, cf. chap. vi; Brooks 1974, pp. 230-1, rejects Finberg's arguments; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, pp. 232-4 n. 23, derives ultimately from an 11th-century forgery; Fleming 1985, p. 256, cited; Scott 1981, pp. 112, 201 n. 105, William of Malmesbury adds references to Occenefell and Downhead, Somerset; Costen 1992, p. 39, on Montacute, p. 40 on Pennard, pp. 41-2, on Sowy; Hooke 1994, pp. 100-1; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1119-23, basic form of Second Decimation charters seems acceptable; Abrams 1996, pp. 28, 34, on MS sources, pp. 56-7, 64-5, 66-9, 86-7, 101-3, 115, 160-2, 177-8, 196-7, 207, 214, 218-20, 236, 239-40, on estates, pp. 322-4, list of estate may be genuinely early.
A.D. 854 (Wilton, Wilts., 22 April). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to the Church; general grant of privileges, with specific grant to Hunsige, minister, for 3 hides (cassati) at Martyr Worthy, Hants. ('Second Decimation'). Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 91rv (s. xii)
Printed: K 1054; HS, pp. 638-9; B 468; Pierquin, Conciles, pp. 497-9.
Comments: HS, pp. 638, 639, doubtful; Stevenson 1904, pp. 186-91, 199, dubious; Stenton 1918, p. 445 n. 7, spurious (= Stenton 1970, p. 59 n. 3); Grundy, Hants. 1926, pp. 185-7, on bounds; Robertson, Charters, p. 275, dubious; Finberg, ECW, no. 16, authentic, cf. chapter vi, esp. p. 205; Hart 1970/1, p. 21, on rubric, p. 34 (no. 160), authentic; Brooks 1974, pp. 230-1, unconvinced by Finberg's argument for authenticity; Hart, ECNE, p. 382; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, pp. 232-4 n. 23, derives ultimately from an 11th-century forgery; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1119-23, esp. p. 1121 n. 3, basic form of 'Second Decimation' charters seems acceptable; cf. S 340.
A.D. 854 (Wilton, 22 April). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to the Church; general grant of land and privileges, with list of lands assigned to Malmesbury Abbey, namely at 35 hides at Purton, 15 at Lacock, 5 at Sutton Benger, 5 at Corston, 10 at Crudwell, Wilts.; 10 at Kemble, Gloucs.; and 1.5 at Dauntsey, Wilts. ('Second Decimation'). Latin with English.
Archive: Malmesbury
MSS: 1. BL Lansdowne 417, 14v-15v (s. xiv/xv)
2. PRO E 164/24, 127r-128r (s. xiii)
3. Bodleian, Wood empt. 5, 29r-31r (s. xiii)
4. Oxford, Magdalen College, 172, 91v (s. xii)
Printed: Wharton, Anglia Sacra, ii. 26-7; K 271; Thorpe, pp. 110-11; Hamilton, William of Malmesbury, G.P., pp. 390-1 ex MS 4; Brewer, Reg. Malm., pp. 297-9 ex MS 2; B 470 ex Hamilton and MS 1.
Comments: HS, pp. 638, 640, doubtful; Stevenson 1904, pp. 186-91, 199, dubious; Stenton 1918, p. 445 n. 57, spurious (= Stenton 1970, p. 59 n. 3); Robertson, Charters, p. 275, suspicious; Darlington 1955, p. 89, spurious; Watkin 1956, p. 229 and n. 43, does not inspire confidence; Finberg, ECW, no. 204, authentic basis, cf. chapter vi; Finberg, ECWM, no. 73, spurious; Brooks 1974, pp. 231-2, rejects Finberg's assertation of credibility; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, pp. 232-4 n. 23, based ultimately on an 11th-century forgery; Fleming 1985, p. 252; O'Donovan, Sherborne, p. xxx; Dumville 1992, p. 41 n. 57, spurious; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1119-23, basic form of 'Second Decimation' charters seems acceptable; Abrams 1996, p. 254 n. 72, p. 303, doubtful.
A.D. 854. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to St Peter and the familia of Malmesbury; grant of 5 hides (mansiones) at Tockenham, Wilts. Latin.
Archive: Malmesbury
MSS: 1. BL Lansdowne 417, 14v (s. xiv/xv)
2. PRO E 164/24, 127r (s. xiii)
3. Bodleian, Wood empt. 5, 28v-29r (s. xiii)
4. Oxford, Magdalen College, 172, 91v (s. xii)
Printed: Wharton, Anglia Sacra, ii. 27; K 273 ex MS 1; Hamilton, William of Malmesbury, G.P., p. 391 ex MS 4; Brewer, Reg. Malm. pp. 296-7 ex MS 2; B 481 ex Brewer, Hamilton and MS 1.
Comments: Darlington 1955, p. 90, spurious in present form; Watkin 1956, p. 212 and n. 57; Finberg, ECW, no. 207, the text reads like an epitome of a (lost) original; O'Donovan 1973, p. 108, witness-list and dating clause acceptable, charter may have a genuine base; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 226 n. 47, on estate; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1121-2, fabrication perhaps based on 'Second Decimation' charter.
A.D. 854 (Wilton, Wilts., 22 April). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to the Church; general grant of land and privileges with specific grant to Swithhun, bishop, for the church of SS Peter and Paul, Winchester, of 30 hides (cassati) at Brightwell, Berks. ('Second Decimation'). Latin.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 47rv (s. xii)
Printed: B 474.
Comments: Robertson, Charters, p. 275, suspicious; Finberg, ECW, pp. 203-4, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 21, on rubric, p. 28 (no. 79), authentic; Brooks 1974, pp. 231-2, unconvinced by Finberg's arguments for authenticity; Biddle 1975, pp. 132, 235 n. 46, suspicious; Biddle et al. 1976, p. 392; PN Berks., ii. 515; Gelling, ECTV, no. 23, authenticity uncertain; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, pp. 232-4 n. 23, based ultimately on an 11th-century forgery; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1119-21, esp. p. 1121 n. 3, basic form of 'Second Decimation' charters seems acceptable; Smyth 1995, pp. 6-7.
A.D. 854 (Wilton, Wilts., 22 April). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to the Church; general grant of land and privileges with specific grant to Wiferth, minister, of 1 hide (cassatum) at Hardenhuish, Wilts. ('Second Decimation'). Latin with English bounds.
Archive: uncertain provenance
MS: BL Cotton Ch. viii. 35 (s. xi ?; BM Facs., ii. 32)
Printed: K 270 and vol. iii. 394; Thorpe, pp. 108-9; B 469.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, later imitation; HS, pp. 638, 639, doubtful; Stevenson 1904, pp. 187-8, 'written by a scribe who was not an Englishman in an imitative hand with may have been copied from an earlier (spurious) original'; Stenton 1918, p. 445 n. 57, spurious (= Stenton 1970, p. 59 n. 3); Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 170-1, probably refers to Hardenhuish, Wilts., but no landmarks can be positively identified; Robertson, Charters, p. 275, suspicious; Finberg, ECW, no. 203, authentic, cf. chapter vi, esp. pp. 197-8, MS based on older original; Hart 1970/1, p. 21, on rubric; Brooks 1974, pp. 231-2, apparent original is in a hand of s. xi, unconvinced by Finberg's arguments for authenticity; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, p. 233 n. 23, written in obviously imitative hand, apparently of 11th century; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1119-21, esp. p. 1121 n. 3, MS of disreputable appearance and uncertain date (? s. xi), but basic form of 'Second Decimation' charters seems acceptable; Smyth 1995, pp. 6-7.
A.D. 854 (Wilton, 22 April). Æthelwulf, king, to the church of SS Peter and Paul, Winchester; restitution of 3 hides (mansae) at Headbourne Worthy, Hants., originally granted by King Cenwalh. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 90rv (s. xii)
Printed: K 1055; B 473; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 52.
Comments: Stevenson 1904, p. 216 and n. 2, doubtful, uses same formulas as S 242 (spurious), including immunity clause from Edgar's chancery; Grundy, Hants. 1926, pp. 127-30, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 17, spurious; Hart 1970/1, p. 34 (no. 158), spurious; Biddle et al. 1976, p. 261, cited; Keynes 1994/2, p. 1122 n. 1, spurious, dating clause and witness-list from a 'Second Decimation' charter; Faith 1997, p. 34, on place-name.
A.D. 854 (Wilton, 2Wilts., 2 April). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to the church of SS Peter and Paul, Winchester; grant of 8 hides (manentes) at Ruishton, and 8 at Stoke St Mary in (æt) Orchard Portman, Somerset, to augment the estate at Taunton given by Queen Frithugyth. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 64rv (s. xii)
Printed: K 1051; HS, pp. 641-2; B 475; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 49; Pierquin, Conciles, pp. 500-1.
Comments: HS, p. 638, doubtful; Stevenson 1904, p. 187 n. 4, spurious; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 22-8, bounds describe Ruishton, Orchard Portman and part of Corfe; Zachrisson 1935, no. 3, on identification; Turner 1950; Finberg, ECW, no. 409, spurious; Hart 1970/1, p. 31 (no. 111), spurious; Keynes 1994/2, p. 1122 n. 1, spurious, dating clause and witness-list from a 'Second Decimation' charter.
A.D. 854 (Wilton, Wilts., 22 April). Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to the church of SS Peter and Paul, Winchester; grant of 133 hides (manentes) at Taunton and 10 at Brown, Somerset. Latin with bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MSS: 1. BL Add. 15350, 59rv (s. xii)
2. BL Add. 15350, 27v-28r (s. xii; English version of bounds)
Printed: K 1052; B 476; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 50; Turner 1953, pp. 120-1 ex MS 2.
Comments: HS, pp. 638, 642, doubtful; Stevenson 1904, p. 256, dubious; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 7-22, on bounds; Turner 1950, on bounds; Turner 1953, pp. 123-4; Finberg, ECW, no. 410, spurious, bounds describe hundred of Taunton Dene, Grundy is wrong to include Crowcombe in estate; Hart 1970/1, p. 27 (no. 50), p. 30 (no. 100), spurious; PN Dorset, ii. 162; Keynes 1994/2, p. 1122 n. 1, spurious, dating clause and witness-list from a 'Second Decimation' charter.
A.D. 854. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to the church of SS Peter and Paul, Winchester; grant of 20 hides (mansae) at Wanborough (i.e Little Hinton), Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MSS: 1. Winchester, D. & C., Library Showcase (s. xiv2; OS Facs., ii, Winchester 1)
2. BL Add. 15350, 85v-86r (s. xii)
Printed: K 1053; HS, p. 643, without bounds; B 477; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 51; Pierquin, Conciles, pp. 501-2.
Comments: HS, pp. 638, 643, doubtful; Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 172-80; Zachrisson 1935, no. 23; Darlington 1955, p. 85, spurious; Thomson 1959, bounds are of Little Hinton, Wilts.; Finberg, ECW, no. 206, spurious, based on S 313; Hart 1970/1, p. 33 (no. 149), spurious; BA Facs., p. 8, probably forged at the same time as S 313; Keynes 1994/2, p. 1122 n. 1, spurious form of 'Second Decimation charter'.
Note. Pseudo-chirograph. Scribe also wrote S 804 MS 1 and S 1013 MS 1.
A.D. 854. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to St Peter and the Old Minster, Winchester; grant of 20 hides at Wanborough, Wilts. English.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MSS: 1. Edinburgh, UL, Laing Charter 18 (s. xi1; BA Facs. 24)
2. BL Add. 15350, 86rv (s. xii)
Printed: K 1053; HS, pp. 643-4, with translation; B 478; Robertson, Charters, no. 8 (p. 14), with translation, p. 15.
Comments: HS, p. 638, doubtful; Stevenson 1904, p. 703, spurious; Robertson, Charters, pp. 274-6; Darlington 1955, pp. 7, 85, spurious; Finberg, ECW, no. 205 and p. 203, record drawn up long after the event; Chaplais 1968, p. 315 n. 3, note on chirographic form, script may be s. xi1 (= 1973, p. 63 n. 3); Hart 1970/1, p. 34 (no. 153), spurious; Rumble 1984, pp. 43-4, on place-name; BA Facs., p. 8, forged in early 11th century; Lowe 1993, pp. 3-10, on MS 2; Keynes 1994/2, p. 1122 n. 1, spurious form of 'Second Decimation' charter; cf. S 312.
Note. Upper portion of chirograph.
See now 294a.
A.D. 855. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex and Kent, to Dunn, his minister; grant of a messuage (haga) in the south of the city of Rochester. Latin.
Archive: Rochester
MSS: 1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), 139v-140r (s. xii1; facsimile)
2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), 9r (s. xiv)
Printed: Hearne, Textus Roffensis, pp. 102-3; Thorpe, Reg. Roff., p. 24; K 276; HS, pp. 644-5; B 486 (1); Earle, pp. 336-7; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 21; Pierquin, Conciles, pp. 502-3; Campbell, Rochester, no. 23.
Translated: Whitelock, EHD, no. 89 (pp. 525-6).
Comments: HS, pp. 638, 644-5, doubtful; Stevenson 1904, p. 188 and n. 2, p. 193 and n. 4, apparently authentic; Robertson, Charters, pp. 276-7; Finberg, ECW, p. 202, authentic; Whitelock 1966, p. 102, treats as genuine; Campbell, Rochester, p. xxiv, authentic, but reference to the king's pilgrimage to Rome has been added; Whitelock, EHD, p. 525, authentic; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, pp. 233-4, authentic, p. 235 n. 27, cited; Smyth 1995, pp. 382-4; cf. S 1514.
A.D. 855 for ? 853. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex and Kent, to Ealdhere, his minister; grant of 1 sulung (aratrum) at Ulaham, Kent. Latin with bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MS: BL Cotton Aug. ii. 71 (s. ix med.; BM Facs., ii. 31)
Printed: K 269; B 467; Earle, pp. 123-5; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 18.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, contemporary; Sweet, OET, p. 437 (no. 27); Stevenson 1904, p. 193 and n. 3, possibly contemporary, there is an error in the indiction and the charter may belong to 853; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 192-7, rejects Birch's identification with Elham, Kent, and suggests that Ulaham was in or near near Monks Horton, Kent; Parsons 1939, p. 25 n, cited, on endorsement; Hart 1970/1, p. 21, on endorsement; Brooks 1984, pp. 360-1 nn. 67, 70, 76, contemporary, scribe also wrote S 328, 332, 344, 1195-7; Smyth 1995, p. 382; Lapidge 1996, p. 449, notes on latinity.
A.D. 856. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to Ealdred, his minister; grant of 20 hides (cassati) at Æscesbyrig (i.e. Woolstone), Berks. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 104v-105r (s. xii)
Printed: K 1056; B 491; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 53; PN Berks., iii. 680, bounds only.
Comments: Stenton 1913, p. 29, cited in connection with history of Berks.; Grundy, Berks. 1927, pp. 141-5, bounds refer to land at Woolstone; Robertson, Charters, p. 276, errors in witness-list; Gelling 1967-8, on topography and bounds; Hart 1970/1, p. 22, on rubric, p. 36 (no. 181), authentic; PN Berks, i. 5, 14, 15, ii. 360, 380, 383, iii. 675, 680-2, bounds describe western half of modern parish of Woolstone; Sawyer 1978, p. 152, cited; Forsberg 1979, p. 144, bounds partly miscopied, with addition of material from S 575; Gelling, ECTV, no. 24, authentic; Hooke et al. 1987, on topography; Hart 1992, p. 116, on beneficiary; Keynes 1994/2, p. 1122 n. 1, spurious, operative formulas derived from 10th-century text and witness-list from one of the decimation texts of 854; Smyth 1995, pp. 6-7, 381-2.
A.D. 857 (London, Nov.). Æthelwulf, king of the English, to the Abbey of Saint-Denis (Paris); confirmation of lands at Rotherfield, Hastings, Pevensey, Sussex; and at Lundenuuic (London). Latin.
Archive: Paris, Saint-Denis
MSS: 1. Lost
2. BL Harley 66, 119r (s. xvii)
3. Paris, Archives nationales, LL 1156, 83rv (s. xiii, dated 833)
4. Paris, Archives nationales, Ll 1158, p. 551 (s. xiii/xiv)
Printed: Doublet 1625, pp. 785-6 ex MS 1; Alford 1663, iii. 91, ex Doublet; B 494 ex Doublet; Barker 1948, pp. 132-4, with translation.
Comments: Madden 1856, p. 359; Stevenson 1891, forged in France at end of 11th century; Barker 1948, pp. 134-5, spurious; Gelling, ECTV, no. 211, spurious; Atsma and Vezin 1988, esp. pp. 218-19, 221-3, 231-2, may be based on genuine record.
A.D. '874' ? for 844. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex and Kent, to Eadred; grant of land at Horton, near Canterbury, Kent. Latin with bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MS: BL Stowe Ch. 21 (s. xi1; OS Facs., iii. 21)
Printed: B 538.
Comments: Stevenson 1904, p. 216 n. 1, a strange 11th-century charter; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 222-3, on place-names; Bishop 1959, p. 94 n. 2, script entirely characteristic of the St Augustine's scriptorium of later 11th century, scribe also appears in BL Royal 6. C. i,; Whitelock 1979, p. 77, witness-list belongs to c. 840; Abels 1983; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. xciv-v, on circumstances of production.
Note. A charter of Æthelwulf, perhaps dated 844, has been partly rewritten to incorporate details about the later ownership and division of the estate. This probably coincided with the confirmation by Archbishop Æthelred (870 x 888) and others. The present MS is a much later copy of the emended charter. At some stage the incarnation year has been altered.
A.D. 880 ? for 855. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, Kent, and of all the southern people of the English, to Malmesbury Abbey; grant of 5 hides (mansiunculae) at Minety, Wilts. Latin.
Archive: Malmesbury
MSS: 1. BL Lansdowne 417, 15v (s. xiv/xv)
2. PRO E 164/24, 128r (s. xiii)
3. Bodleian, Wood empt. 5, 31r-32r (s. xiii)
4. Oxford, Magdalen College, 172, 91v-92r (s. xii; dated 855)
Printed: Wharton, Anglia Sacra, ii. 27; K 255; Hamilton, William of Malmesbury, G.P., pp. 391-2 ex MS 4; Brewer, Reg. Malm., i. 300 ex MS 2; B 444 ex Brewer, Hamilton and MS 1.
Comments: Stevenson 1904, p. 199, suspicious; Darlington 1955, p. 90; Watkin 1956, p. 212 and n. 57; Finberg, ECWM, no. 70, spurious, but authentic basis possible, dates 839 x 855; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, p. 227 n. 1, king's name apparently error for Alfred; Keynes 1994/2, p. 1112, witnesses seem to belong to late 830s, may have been drawn up in Kent.
A.D. 880. Æthelwulf, king of the Saxons, to the church of St Andrew (Rochester) and bishop Swithulf; grant of 3 sulungs (aratra) at Cuxton, with meadow at Chatham, Kent. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Rochester
MSS: 1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), 141v-142v (s. xii1; facsimile)
2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), 4v (s. xiv)
Printed: Hearne, Textus Roffensis, pp. 106-8; K 312 and vol. iii. 400; B 548; Earle, pp. 338-9; Campbell, Rochester, no. 27.
Comments: Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 225-7, on place-names; Campbell, Rochester, p. xxvi, very doubtful, 'the work of a reckless compiler'; O'Donovan 1973, p. 100, witness-list suits the date; Whitelock 1979, pp. 77, 92 n. 6, genuine charter of Alfred with king's name altered; Smyth 1995, p. 374.
See now S 294b
c. A.D. 833 x 839, perhaps 833 x 836. Æthelwulf, king of Kent, to (Christ Church, Canterbury); confirmation of lands at Langham, Blakeburneham, Plegwingham, Ofneham; pasture in Hliossole and Ægelbertinherst; common in woods in Estcogheringdenne and Hyringdenne; land at Canterbury with meadows at Shettinge and Thanington, Kent. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. A, 140v-141r (s. xiii)
2. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. E, 42rv (s. xiii)
Printed: K 1041; B 407; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 44.
Comments: Stenton 1918, p. 451, no conclusive exception need be taken (= Stenton 1970, p. 65); Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 170-5, on place-names; Ward 1937, pp. 240-1; O'Donovan 1972, p. 30, dates 825 x 839; Witney 1976, p. 263, on Ægelbertinherst, p. 266, on Estcogheringdenne; Brooks 1984, p. 354 n. 54, dates 833 x 839; Edwards 1988, pp. 277-8, genuine, dates c. 833 x c. 836; Keynes 1993/1, p. 122 n. 54, cited; cf. CCC16 (S 1623).
Note. The rubric in MS 2 reads Codicellus Ezelwolphi regis de Ebbeni (Ebony in the Isle of Oxney, Kent) et quibusdam aliis anno DCCCoXLIo.
[A.D. 850.] Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to Wernoth, abbot of SS Peter and Paul (St Augustine's, Canterbury); grant of 40 hides (cassati) at Lenham, Kent. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, St Augustine's
MS: BL Cotton Jul. D. ii, 133v (s. xiii)
Printed: B 854; Kelly, St Augustine's, no. 21.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, dubious or spurious; Turner 1915, p. xxix; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 84-7, version of S 300 with the name of the beneficiary altered.
[A.D. 854.] Æthelwulf, king, to (Winchester Cathedral); confirmation of the beneficial hidation of Chilcomb, Hants. English.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 117v (s. xii)
Printed: K 1057; Thorpe, pp. 115-17, with translation; HS, pp. 646-8, with translation; B 493; Earle, pp. 349-50.
Comments: HS, pp. 646-8, spurious; Plummer 1899, p. 79, spurious; Stevenson 1904, p. 246, spurious; Robertson, Charters, p. 325, spurious; Harmer, Writs, p. 374 and nn. 1, 2, authenticity frequently questioned; Finberg, ECW, no. 19, spurious; John 1965, p. 410 n. 3, later forgery; Chaplais 1966, p. 171, spurious (= 1973, p. 55); Hart 1970/1, p. 38 (no. 214), spurious; Biddle et al. 1976, pp. 256-7, on Chilcomb; Keynes 1994/2, p. 1122 n. 1, spurious.
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