Source: CharterS671

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Description

King Edgar to Rochester, St Andrew's, and Ælfstan, bishop of Rochester; grant of 10 hides (mansae) or sulungs at Bromley, Kent.

Charter information
Sawyer 671
Birch 1295
Kemble 518
British Academy Campbell, Rochester No. 29
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Rochester
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 955
Scholarly Source Dating 973

Notes

Bond 1878, p. 7, MS 1 is contemporary; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 299-301, on place-names; Barker 1949, p. 96, doubtful, witness-list seems to belong to 972 or 973; Finberg 1972, pp. 415, 492, on unit of assessment; Campbell, Rochester, p. xvi, script of MS 1 later than 973 but before 1000, pp. xvi-xviii, on bounds, pp. xxiv-v, spurious; Witney 1976, p. 220, on swine-pastures; Barker 1977, spurious; Wormald 1986, p. 161, fabricated in late 10th century; Dumville 1994, p. 146 n. 71, script of MS 1 is non-contemporary Square Minuscule; Kennedy 1995, p. 153 n. 88