Source: CharterS1482
Description
Will of Abba, reeve, concerning his property (the only named land being at Chillenden, Kent); with endorsement detailing the arrangements made by Heregyth, his wife, for an annual render to Christ Church, Canterbury, from an estate at Challock, Kent.
Charter information
| Sawyer |
1482 |
| Birch |
412 |
| Kemble |
235 |
| British Academy |
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| Source Used |
Birch |
| Archive(s) |
Canterbury, Christ Church |
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Source Information
| Scholarly Source Dating |
833 x 839 |
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Notes
Sweet, Reader, p. 287; Bond 1878, p. 7, contemporary; Harmer, SEHD, pp. 75-81, authentic, cf. p. vi; Deanesly 1927, p. 4 n. 3, dates it 833; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 175-6, on place-names; Campbell 1938, p. 146, authentic; Parsons 1939, pp. 14, 23-5, genuine and contemporary; Sisam 1953, p. 124, cited; Stenton 1971, p. 281, oldest Kentish will; Sawyer 1978, p. 153, cited; Brooks 1984, pp. 147, 354 n. 60, p. 360 n. 70, p. 361 n. 76, contemporary, written in two stages by different scribes (main text and Abba's subscription; other subscriptions and Heregyth's bequest), there may have been little lapse of time between the two transactions; Campbell 1989, p. 35, on detail of transaction; Kelly 1990, pp. 47-8; Keynes 1990, pp. 252-3; Faith 1997, pp. 31-2, cited.