Source: CharterS87

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Description

Ęthelbald, king of the Mercians, to Mildrith, abbess, and her church [Minster-in-Thanet]; remission of the toll due on one ship.

Charter information
Sawyer 87
Birch 150
Kemble 84
British Academy Kelly, St Augustine's No. 50
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Canterbury, St Augustine's ex Minster-in-Thanet
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 29th October 737
Scholarly Source Dating 716 x 717

Notes

*B, vol. i. 216 n. 1, on date; Harmer, Writs, p. 568, based on authentic material; Harrison 1973, p. 63, on dating; Scharer 1982, pp. 200-1, spurious; Wormald 1985, pp. 10-11, on formulation, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Yorke 1985, p. 23, on one of the witnesses; Kelly 1992, probably authentic; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. lxxxv-xc passim, on diplomatic, pp. 170-5, authentic, but dating clause probably tampered with.