Source: CharterS1434

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Record of the recovery by Archbishop Wulfred of land at Easole, Kent, granted to him by Ealdberht, comes, and Selethryth, his sister, but fraudulently acquired by Cwenthryth, abbess of Minster-in-Thanet.

Charter information
Sawyer 1434
Birch 378
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Canterbury, Christ Church
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 824
Scholarly Source Dating 824

Notes

*Sweet, OET, pp. 458-9 (no. 57); Stevenson 1914, p. 695 n. 34, cited; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 145-56, pn place-names; Drögereit 1935, p. 408 n. 4, original; Parsons 1939, pp. 14, 31 n., genuine and contemporary; Levison 1946, pp. 215-2, on Cwoenthryth; Harrison 1973, p. 60 n. 3, citing Brooks, on date of synod; Harrison 1976, pp. 114-15, on date of synod; Brooks 1984, pp. 184-5, 192, 361 n. 76, p. 364 nn. 28, 31, original; Vollrath 1985, pp. 197-200, on synodal aspects; Brown 1986, pp. 128-9, on script; Crick 1988, on script; Wormald 1988, no. 13; Keynes 1993/1, pp. 115, 119-20, cited; Cubitt 1995, pp. 80, 84, 286; Brown 1996, p. 164, on script; Sandred 1996, on Godmersham bounds.

Note. The bounds were added on dorse by a different and probably later ninth-century scribe. Cf. CCC 13 (S 1620).