S 41
A.D. 805 x 807. Cuthred, king of Kent, to Æthelnoth, praefectus; grant of 3 sulungs (aratra) at Eythorne, Kent, in return for 3000 pence. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 100 (s. ix1; BM Facs., ii. 7)
2. BL Stowe Ch. 8 (s. ix1; OS Facs., iii. 8)
3. BL Stowe 853, 12rv (s. xvii)
Printed: Madox 1702, p. 174, ex MS 1; K 191; B 318 ex MSS 1, 2; Earle, pp. 75-6; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 103.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 697 n. 41, contemporary; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 100-1, on place-name; Campbell 1938, p. 143, authentic, MSS 1 and 2 in the same hand; Parsons 1939, p. 14, MS 1 genuine and contemporary; Wright 1950, pp. 390-1; Ch.L.A. iv, p. xviii, on script; Cubitt 1995, pp. 282-3, authentic; cf. S 1500, which followed the text of S 41 in MS 2 and concerns future arrangements for the land.
Endorsements:
(1) s. xi: Heagyþe ðornes boc
(2) s. xii: Cuthredus rex dedit heageþorne Eðelnotho prefecto suo
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