Source: CharterS155

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Cenwulf, king of the Mercians, to Canterbury, Christ Church; restoration of 30 sulungs (aratra) at Charing, 10 at Seleberhtes cert or Bryning lond (Chart) and 4 at Humbinglond in Barham, Kent, previously seized and redistributed by King Offa.

Charter information
Sawyer 155
Birch 293
Kemble 1020
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Canterbury, Christ Church
Manuscript apparent original: No:0
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 799
Scholarly Source Dating 799

Notes

*Stenton 1918, p. 446 and n. 61, original, discusses Offa's royal style (= Stenton 1970, p. 60 and n. 3); Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 84-7, on place-names; Stenton 1955, p. 28, cited; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 223, MS 1 is contemporaneous, very probably original; Bruckner 1965, pp. 24, 28, 41, 44; John 1966, p. 88; Ch.L.A., iv, pp. xvi, xviii, same scribe probably wrote S 123, p. xxiii, on production; Chaplais 1968, pp. 332-3, original, single scribe wrote the main text and later added the date and witnesses (= 1973, pp. 83-4); Chaplais 1969, p. 542 n. 145, on formulation (= 1973, p. 107 n. 145); Vollrath-Reichelt 1971, pp. 163-71, discusses constitutional background of Offa's confiscation; Whitelock, EHD, p. 510, original; Wormald 1982, pp. 111, 126-7, on background; Sawyer 1983, pp. 296-8, on meeting-place; Wormald 1983, p. 110 n. 45, notes Alcuinian influence, pp. 115-16; Brooks 1984, pp. 114-15, 131, 321-2, original; Brown 1986, p. 129, on script; Making of England, pp. 205, 208 (no. 161); Fleming 1993, p. 121; Cubitt 1995, p. 278, original; cf. S 1259, 1264.

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Whitelock, Dorothy English Historical Documents, c.500-1042 London and New York 1999 [reprint of 1979 edition] 510-11 [no. 80]