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S 40

A.D. 805 (26 July, Acleah). Cuthred, king of Kent, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of 2 sulungs (aratra) at Hrithra leah, part of an estate of 15 hides (manentes) at Buckholt in Petham, Kent, in return for 30 mancuses. Latin.

Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church

MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 87 (s. ix¹; BM Facs., ii. 8)
2. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, p. 389 (s. xiii)
3. Bodleian, James 24, p. 100 (s. xvii; extract)

Printed: K 190; HS, pp. 558-9; B 322; Earle, pp. 284-5; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 102; Pierquin, Conciles, pp. 434-5.

Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, MS 1 rather later and retouched; Stenton 1918, p. 450 n. 74, original (= Stenton 1970, p. 64 n. 3); Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 105-6, on place-names; Drögereit 1935, p. 408 n. 4, original; Ch.L.A., iii, p. 46, scribe also wrote S 153; Bruckner 1965, p. 29, on script; Ch.L.A., iv, p. xviii, on script; Finberg 1972, p. 410, on place-name; Harrison 1973, p. 60, on dating; Scharer 1982, p. 63 n. 9, p. 104 n. 9, cited; Brooks 1984, pp. 359-60 n. 67, MS 1 later copy; Keynes 1993/1, p. 113 n. 6, p. 114 n. 13, cited; Cubitt 1995, p. 282; cf. CCC 8 (S 1615).

Endorsements:
(1) s. x: Hryþeraleh
(2) s. xii: duorum aratrorum . Cuðred rex . Cantiæ Wluredo archiepiscopo pro xxx marcis auri
(3) s. xii: latine

+ Anno ab incarnatione domini nostri Jhesu Christi dcccovo indictione xiii . ego Cuðred rex Cantiae cum licentia Coenulfi regis Merciae octabo anno regni mei a Deo concessi Wulfredo sedenti in archiepiscopatus solio . duorum aratrorum terrae in perpetuum donabo . est itaque terra illa conposita in occidentali parte xv . manentium quae dicuntur Bocholt hec duo aratra supra predicta a quibusdam campus armentorum id est hriðra leah appellantnr hoc autem modo quasi pro conparatione in pretio xxx mancusarum illi hanc prenominatam terram tradere curabo ut communem silbam secundum antiquam consuetudinem cum ceteris hominibus abeat potestas quoque ipsi datur ut in libertate terram habeat quamdiu vivat 7 postea cuicumque hominum voluelrit in aeternam libertatem derelinquat si quis hanc largit'i'onem illi augeat augeatur illi a Deo vita si quis demin'u'erit quod absid deminuetur sibi gloria in Christo nisi satisfacsione emendaverit . Huius confirmationis signa in celeberrimo loco hacleah nominato exponuntur in uiias. k'as agustus die sabbati quo transfiguratus est Christus .

+ Ego Coenuulf rex Merciæ consensi et subscripsi .
+ Alduulf episcopus .
+ Werenberht episcopus
+ Deneberht episcopus .
+ Eaduulf episcopus .
+ Wulfhard episcopus .
+ Alheard episcopus .
+ Tidferð episcopus .
+ Osmnud episcopus .
+ Wiohthun episcopus .
+ Wig[be]rht episcopus .
+ Alhmund episcopus .
+ Bernmod episcopus .
+ Alh - - - - - -
+ - - - - - abbas
+ Wernoð abbas .
+ Dudan abbas .
+ Feolageld abbas .
+ Ego Cuðred 'rex' Cantiæ consensi et subscribi .
+ Heahberht dux .
+ Beornnoð dux .
+ Cynehelm dux .
+ Tiduulf dux .
+ Wicgga dux .
+ Ceolward dux .
+ Ceolberht dux .
+ Dynne dux .
+ Wighard dux .
+ Byrnwald dux .
+ Heardberht comes .
+ Cuðred pr'.