Source: CharterS128

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Offa, king of the Mercians, to Osberht, his minister, and Osberht's wife [Anonymous]; grant of 1 sulung (aratrum) at Duningcland in the Eastry district, Kent.

Charter information
Sawyer 128
Birch 254
Kemble 153
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Canterbury, Christ Church
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 788
Scholarly Source Dating 788

Notes

*Sweet, OET, p. 433 (no. 18); Stevenson 1914, p. 696 n. 36, cited with reference to immunuty; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 73-4, on place-names; Parsons 1939, p. 14, genuine and contemporary; Stenton 1955, pp. 38-9, original; Bruckner 1965, pp. 28, 40-1; Ch.L.A., iv, p. xviii, on script, no. 235, contemporaneous, probably original; Brooks 1971, p. 79, contemporary; Stenton 1971, pp. 306, 309, cited; Sawyer 1978, p. 143, cited; Scharer 1982, pp. 265-6, authentic; Brooks 1984, pp. 119, 350 n. 36, original, Canterbury formulation; Cubitt 1995, p. 272, contemporary; Faith 1997, p. 104, cited.

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Stenton, Frank Merry The Latin Charters of the Anglo-Saxon Period Oxford 1955 38-9