Source: CharterS1288

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Plegmund, archbishop, to Beorhtred; lease, for three lives, of 80 iugera at Wærincg mersc, near the river Rumenesea, Kent, in return for a payment of 385 pence, with reversion of Christ Church.

Charter information
Sawyer 1288
Birch 638
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Canterbury, Christ Church
Source Information
Language Latin
Scholarly Source Dating 879 x 908

Notes

*Robinson 1918, p. 58, argues for date A.D. 905; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 234-7, on place-names; Brooks 1984, pp. 214, 369 n. 17, incarnation date tampered with, indiction narrows possibilities to 905 or 920; Dumville 1987, p. 157 n. 52, probably contemporary, dates 905; Brooks 1989, p. 98, on topography; Dumville 1992, p. 92 n. 182, cited