Description
Record of a dispute between Archbishop Wulfred and Cenwulf, king of the Mercians, and his heir Cwenthryth, abbess, concerning the minsters of Reculver and Minster-in-Thanet. At an initial settlement in London (? late 821) Wulfred ceded to King Cenwulf 300 hides at Iognes homme (? Eynsham, Oxon.). In subsequent settlements (at Clofesho and Oslafeshlau) Cwoenthryth ceded to Wulfred land at Harrow, Middx; Herefrethingland; Wembley, Yeading, Middx; Boc land; and Combe, Kent.
Notes
*Sweet, OET, pp. 459-60 (no. 58); Wallenberg, KPN, p. 165, on place-names; Drögereit 1935, p. 408 n. 4, original; Parsons 1939, pp. 14, 23-5, genuine and contemporary; PN Middx, pp. 40, 51, 55; Levison 1946, pp. 251-2, on Cwoenthryth; Stenton 1955, p. 41, contemporary; Stengel 1960, p. 72; Chaplais 1968, p. 330, cited (= 1973, p. 81); Stenton 1971, pp. 229-30, on background; Gelling, ECTV, no. 206, original; Keynes 1980, p. 34 n. 59, cited; Wormald 1982, p. 127; Brooks 1984, pp. 104-5, on estates, pp. 180-3, on context, pp. 322-3, 360-1 n. 70, on scribe; Fleming 1985, p. 256; Vollrath 1985, pp. 201-7, on synodal aspects; Brown 1986, pp. 128-9, 130-1, on script; Rumble 1987, pp. 226-7, on bocland as place-name; Wormald 1988, no. 14; Keynes 1993/1, pp. 115, 118, 119-20, 125 n. 8, dates from c. 827 in received form, witness-list ostensibly from Clofesho synod of 825, but Kentish witnesses (from Abbot Feologeld) may be a later addition; Blair 1994, p. 63, on Eynsham link; Cubitt 1995, pp. 80, 95, 286-7; Wormald 1995, p. 126, on Oslafeshlau; Bailey 1996, pp. 66-9, on Harrow; Brown 1996, p. 164, on script.
Note. Scribe of MS 1 also wrote S 153, 188, 1482 and the witnesses of S 1268, and may also have been responsible for MS 2.