Source: CharterS1276

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(a) Swithulf, bishop, and the community at Rochester, to Beorhtwulf; grant of a half sulung (aratrum) at Haddun (Haven Street in Frindsbury), with meadows at Beckley and Strood, Kent. Latin with English bounds. (b) Endorsement by King Edgar granting the land to Leofric.

Charter information
Sawyer 1276
Birch 562
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Canterbury, Christ Church
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 889
Scholarly Source Dating 889 x 975

Notes

*Stevenson 1904, p. 290 n. 1, authentic; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 227-32, on place-names; O'Donovan 1973, p. 100, reputable; Brooks 1984, pp. 361 n. 70, scribe also wrote S 327, 331; Dumville 1987, p. 156 n. 41, p. 158 n. 53, undoubtedly original; Lapidge 1996, p. 454, on latinity