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In the year of our Lord's incarnation 801, the fifth year of Cenwulf, king of the Mercians, there arose a certain disagreement between Cenwulf and Wihthun, bishop of the South Saxons, concerning land of the aforesaid bishop, that is, 25 [hides] in Denton. The king said it ought more properly to belong to the monastery at Beddingham; the bishop said that it had been given to his predecessors in the church which is in Selsey. The king had it in mind to deprive him of a portion of his heritage, if Wihthun, bishop of the aforementioned province, had not convinced him with testimony and canonical phrases, and mitigated the pernicious idea of the king's majesty, and with humble supplication asked that in his innocence he should not be condemned nor deprived of the Church's heritage. Then the king pronounced his legal decision, agreeing with the bishop and granting that with his successors it should remain there without any trouble. And this he ordered to be put into writing in the presence of the whole synod at Chelsea, so that none of his successors should molest him or interfere with the church in any way…
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