Source: CharterS279

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Ecgberht, king of the West Saxons, to Ciaba, a clericus living in St Peter's minster (St Augustine's), Canterbury; grant, for life, of one sulung (aratrum) on Scirdun, formerly belonging to the royal vill at Canterbury, in return for 100 mancuses, with reversion to St Augustine's.

Charter information
Sawyer 279
Birch 852
Kemble ---
British Academy Kelly, St Augustine's No. 18
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Canterbury, St Augustine's
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 836
Scholarly Source Dating 836

Notes

Turner 1915, p. xxviii; Stenton 1918, p. 451 n. 79, may be authentic (= Stenton 1970, p. 65 n. 3); Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 272-3, on place-names; Wormald 1983, p. 113 n. 62, commands respect; Edwards 1988, pp. 289-90, authentic; Keynes 1993/1, p. 122 n. 55, cited; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 75-7, probably abbreviated.