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A.D. 679 (Reculver, May). Hlothhere, king of Kent, to Abbot Beorhtwald and his minster; grant of land at Westanae on the Isle of Thanet, and in Sturry, Kent. Latin

Archive:

Canterbury, Christ Church (ex Reculver)

MSS:

2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, ff. 195-201v, f. 195r-v (s. xii; short version)
3. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. P, f. 11r-v (s. xiii in.; short version)
1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 2 (s. vii 2; BM Facs., i. 1; Lowe, Uncial, pl. xxi; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 182; Campbell 1982, p. 98; Wormald 1985, p.2; Making of England, no. 27)
4. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, p. 304 (s. xiii; short version)
5. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 223, f. 8r-v (s. xvi 1; short version)

Printed:

Twysden, X Scriptores, col. 2207, ex MS 2 ; Smith, Bede, p. 784 ; K, 16, ex MSS 1, 4 ; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 455 (no. 2) ex MS 5 ; Birch 1876, pp. 78-80 ; B, 45, ex K and MS 1 ; Earle, pp. 8-9 ; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 13 ; Fleming 1997, pp. 109-10 (no. 3), ex MS 3

Comments:

Birch 1876, pp. 78-80 ; Stevenson 1914, p. 703, authentic ; Stenton 1918, pp. 434, 437 nn. 19 & 20, original (= Stenton 1970 pp. 49, 51 n. 5, p. 52 n. 1) ; Levison 1946, p. 230, earliest original ; John 1960, pp. 5, 36, 49, certainly authentic, discusses formulation and legal basis ; Bruckner 1965, pp. 25-6, p. 24 n. 63 and p. 39, p. 44, oldest surviving Anglo-Saxon charter in contemporary form; autograph cross in king's subscription; production ; Chaplais 1965, pp. 49, 51-2, 53-4, original (= 1973, pp. 29, 32, 33-4) ; Wright 1967, p. 56, MS 1 probably a later copy ; Chaplais 1968, pp. 317-27, original, witness-list added later probably by same scribe, discusses latinity, formulation, date (= 1973 pp. 65-78) ; Chaplais 1969, pp. 538-40, compares formulation with that of S 19 (= 1973 pp. 102-5) ; Stenton 1971, pp. 141, 282, contemporary ; Finberg 1972, pp. 406, 434, cited ; Cox 1976, pp. 25-6, 27, 28, 42, on place-names ; Harrison 1976, p. 118, on indiction ; Whitelock 1976, pp. 142, 143, on witnesses and date ; Sawyer 1978, pp. 146, 155, 157, earliest original ; Rollason 1979, pp. 14-15, on estate ; Scharer 1982, pp. 65-8, original ; Wormald 1982, p. 98 ; Wormald 1985, pp. 3-5, 25, original ; Dumville 1999, p. 105, on script ; Thompson 2006, pp. 3 et passim, on script ; BM Facs., iv, p. 7, contemporary ; Sweet, OET, pp. 427-8 (no. 4) ; Earle, p. 8, absolute original ; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 10-13, on place-names ; Lowe, Uncial, pp. 8, 20, apparently an original document ; Ch.L.A., iii. no. 182, MS 1 contemporaneous, probably original ; Ch.L.A., iv. pp. xvi-vii, xxiii, on script and production ; The Making of England, pp. 43-4 ; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. lxxiii-lxxxv passim, on Kentish diplomatic. ; Gameson 1999a, pp. 324-5, on script of original