Description
Offa, king of the English, to Jænberht, archbishop; grant of 3 sulungs (aratra) at Lydd, Kent.
Notes
Stenton 1918, p. 446 and n. 64, original, discusses royal style (= Stenton 1970, p. 60 and n. 6); Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 55-6, on place-names; Ward 1943, p. 24; Wright 1950, p. 389, MS 1 in a hand of c. 1000; Stenton 1971, p. 207, cited; Vollrath-Reichelt 1971, p. 172; Sawyer 1978, p. 101, MS 1 10th-century; Scharer 1982, pp. 228-31, spurious; Wormald 1983, p. 110, suspect but probably not complete fabrication, discusses royal style; Brooks 1984, pp. 112, 114, 320, later forgery but bounds and witness-list probably from an early document, MS 1 s. x2 or x/xi; Brooks 1988, pp. 95, 98-100, on topography, forger used 8th-century charter; Fleming 1997, p. 94, comment on short version.