Source: CharterS398

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Description

Æthelstan, king of all of Britain, to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Folkestone, Kent, the site of a former minster.

Charter information
Sawyer 398
Birch 660
Kemble 1100
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Canterbury, Christ Church
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 927
Scholarly Source Dating 927

Notes

*Robinson 1919, p. 43, cannot be authentic in present form; Wallenberg, KPN, p. 237, on place-names; Harmer 1938, p. 354 n. 3, p. 356 n. 1, not genuine in its present form, cf. S 981; Davies 1972, p. 465, spurious elements; O'Donovan 1973, p. 98, witness-list not in original state; Brooks 1984, pp. 220, 367 n. 82, spurious, formulation not contemporary, witness-list impossible; Fleming 1985, p. 251 n. 6, not genuine in present form, but may preserve authentic tradition; Dumville 1992, p. 51, forged