Source: CharterS29
Description
Eadberht II, king of Kent, to Sigeburga, abbess, and her familia at St Peter's Minster, Thanet; remission of toll due on two ships at Fordwich, and on a third at Fordwich and Sarre, Kent. The charter notes that previous, similar concessions were made by Kings Ęthelbald and Offa.
Charter information
| Sawyer |
29 |
| Birch |
189 |
| Kemble |
106 |
| British Academy |
Kelly, St Augustine's No. 53 |
| Source Used |
Brit_Ac |
| Archive(s) |
Canterbury, St Augustine's ex Minster-in-Thanet |
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Source Information
| Language |
Latin |
| Scholarly Source Dating |
763 x 764 |
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Notes
*Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 43-4, on place-names; Levison 1946, p. 185, on formulation; Ward 1943, pp. 23-4; John 1966, p. 23 n., on identification of donor; Whitelock, EHD, p. 491, cited; Scharer 1982, pp. 210-11, fundamentally authentic but may have been tampered with; Kelly 1992, authentic; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. lxxxv-xc passim, on diplomatic, p. ciii, on late medieval tampering with date, pp. 181-2, authentic, regnal year of MS 1 altered to identify the donor with Eadberht I (d. 748), cf. also S 28, 1612.