Source: CharterS13

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Description

Oswine, king of Kent, to Æbbe, abbess (of Minster-in-Thanet); grant of 10 hides (manentes) in Sturry, Kent.

Charter information
Sawyer 13
Birch 35
Kemble 8
British Academy Kelly, St Augustine's No. 42
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Canterbury, St Augustine's ex Minster-in-Thanet
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 27 January 690
Scholarly Source Dating 690

Notes

*Stevenson 1914, p. 703, 'seems to be genuine'; Turner 1915, pp. xxxiii-iv, xxxviii-ix, authentic; Stenton 1918, p. 437 nn. 19, 22, some grounds for confidence (= Stenton 1970, p. 51 n. 5, p. 52 n. 3); Wallenberg, KPN, p. 9, on place-name; John 1960, pp. 4, 10, 26, 50; Cox 1976, p. 42, on place-name; Whitelock 1976, p. 143, on witnesses and date; Scharer 1982, pp. 73-5, spurious; Wormald 1985, p. 25, possibly genuine elements; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 150-1, formulation eccentric, but probably genuine.