Source: CharterS140
Description
Offa, king of the Mercians, to Æthelnoth, abbot of SS Peter and Paul (St Augustine's, Canterbury); grant of 2 hides (manentes) at Beauxfield, Kent, with grazing rights in the wood called Singledge.
Charter information
Sawyer |
140 |
Birch |
207 |
Kemble |
119 |
British Academy |
Kelly, St Augustine's |
Source Used |
Brit_Ac |
Archive(s) |
Canterbury, St Augustine's |
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Source Information
Language |
Latin with Old English |
Scholarly Source Dating |
765 x 792 |
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Notes
*Stevenson 1887, p. 332, if not a forgery it has been tampered with, the bounds have certainly been modernized; Turner 1915, pp. xxvi-vii; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 51-3, on place-names; John 1966, p. 25, cited; Scharer 1982, pp. 264-5, spurious; Brooks 1984, p. 319, bounds must have been added but remainder of text seems unobjectionable, date may be miscopied; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. ciii, 57-60, spurious, fabrication based on a genuine charter of Offa, probably from the later part of his reign and not originally in favour of Abbot Æthelnoth.