Source: CharterS300

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Description

Ęthelwulf, king of the West Saxons, to Ealhhere, his princeps; grant of 40 hides (cassati) at Lenham, Kent, with rights in Blean wood.

Charter information
Sawyer 300
Birch 459
Kemble 1049
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Canterbury, St Augustine's
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 850
Scholarly Source Dating 850

Notes

*Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, dubious or spurious; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 189-92, on place-names; Witney 1976, pp. 246-7, 249, 251, 252, on swine-pastures; Brooks 1984, p. 169, West Saxon formulation; Keynes 1988, p. 185 n. 3, on similarity to S 301; Keynes 1993/1, p. 125, on beneficiary; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1118-19, on formulation; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 84-7, authentic, MS 3 is a version of S 300 with the name of the beneficiary altered, cf. S 324.