Source: CharterS394

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Description

Æthelstan, king of the Saxons and Angles, to St Augustine [Canterbury, St Augustine's]; restoration of 14 sulungs (aratra) at Werburginland in Thanet, Kent.

Charter information
Sawyer 394
Birch 641
Kemble ---
British Academy Kelly, St Augustine's No. 26
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Canterbury, St Augustine's
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 4th September 925
Scholarly Source Dating 925

Notes

*Plummer 1899, p. 133, authenticity very doubtful; Turner 1915, pp. xxx-xxxi; Beavan 1917, p. 522 n. 18, authentic; Robinson 1918, p. 29, authentic; Robinson 1923, p. 39, witness-list corrupt; Davis 1933, p. 35 n. 3, proposes identification with Way (Wayborough) near Minster, Thanet; Drögereit 1952, p. 63 n. 23, dubious; Wallenberg, KPN, p. 237, on place-names; Stenton 1971, p. 445, cited; Whitelock 1975, p. 17 n. 3; Lapidge 1981, p. 77 n. 74, p. 97 n. 159, possibly drafted by continental scribe resident in England (= 1993, p. 85 n. 19); Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 100-3, authenticity uncertain, may cover land near Margate