Source: CharterS177

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Description

Cenwulf, king of the Mercians, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of one sulung (aratrum) at Cynincges cua lond, Kent (? Kingsland (lost) in Faversham hundred), in return for 7 pounds of gold and silver.

Charter information
Sawyer 177
Birch 348
Kemble 201
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Canterbury, Christ Church
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 25th November 814
Scholarly Source Dating 814

Notes

*Sweet, OET, p. 45 (no. 53); Stevenson 1914, p. 689 n. 3, contemporary; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 28, 140, on place-names; Ward 1934/1, on estate; Parsons 1939, p. 14, MS 1 genuine and contemporary; Drögereit 1952, pp. 55-6, spurious; Stenton 1955, p. 39 n. 1, on poor latinity; Bruckner 1965, p. 29, on script; Ch.L.A., iv, p. xviii, on script, 'chancery minuscule'; Brooks 1971, p. 70, contemporary, discusses immunity; Finberg 1972, p. 410, cited; Brooks 1984, p. 360-1 n. 70, p. 361 n. 76, MS 1 contemporary, scribe also wrote S 177; Brown 1986, pp. 128-9, on script; Dumville 1979, p. 11; Crick 1988, p. 264 and n. 89, on script; Making of England, p. 215 (no. 169); Keynes 1993/1, p. 114, cited.