Description
Swæfheard, king of Kent, to Æbbe, abbess (of Minster-in-Thanet); grant of 44 hides (manentes) in Sudaneie in Thanet, and 12 hides in Sturry, Kent; with confirmation by Æthelred, king of Mercia, A.D. 691 (? Marefield and Stapleford, Leics., 8 January).
Notes
*Stevenson 1904, p. 220; Stevenson 1914, p. 703, seems to be genuine; Turner 1915, pp. xxxv-vi, xxxviii-ix; Stenton 1918, pp. 436, 437 nn. 19, 20, authentic, but dating clause inconsistent (= Stenton 1970, pp. 51, 52 n. 1); Wallenberg, KPN, p. 10, on place-names; John 1960, pp. 26, 50, 53; Vollrath-Reichelt 1971, pp. 125-9; Harrison 1973/1, pp. 554-6, on dating clause; Cox 1976, pp. 25, 26, 27, 42, on place-names; Harrison 1976, pp. 69-70, 144-5, on dating; Whitelock 1976, pp. 142-4, on date; Whitelock, EHD, p. 18 n., on date; Scharer 1982, pp. 77-83, spurious but with some genuine elements; Brooks 1984, p. 77; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. ci-iii, 141-6, not authentic in its present form, but based on genuine seventh-century documentation. The inconsistent dating elements in MS 1 are the result of later medieval revision; the readings in the earlier MS 3 are entirely consistent.
