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A.D. 672 x 674 (Fullingadich, 1 March). Frithuwold, subregulus of Surrey, to Eorcenwold and to St Peter's minster, Chertsey; grant of 200 (or 300) hides (manentes) at Chertsey and 5 at Thorpe, with 10 hides by the port of London. The property comprises land at Chertsey, Thorpe, Egham, Getinges (cf. Eaton Farm, Chobham), Molesey, Woodham in Chertsey and Hunewaldesham (lost) in Weybridge, Surrey. Confirmed by Wulfhere, king of the Mercians, in the royal vill at Thame, Oxon. Latin with English bounds appended

Archive:

Chertsey

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. XIII, ff. 20v-23r (s. xiii)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 78 (S.C. 5019), ff. 56r-57r (s. xvii; without bounds)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 76-8; K, 987; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 426-8 (no. 2); B, 34; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 3; Morris 1995, pp. 111-15, ex B

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 54 (pp. 479-80)

Comments:

Plummer, Bede, ii. 217, probably forged in 10th century; Stenton 1918, p. 435 n. 11, some genuine original lies behind present; Stenton 1933, p. 313 n. 2, composed between 673 and 675 (= Stenton 1970, p. 179 n. 3); PN Surrey, pp. xvi, 88, 98, 105 n., 114 n., 119 n; Harmer, Writs, p. 202; PN Oxon., i. 146; Stenton 1955, p. 29, 'distended with spurious matter....but the ancient formulas at its core show that it descends from a text of the 7th century'; John 1960, pp. 7-8, reputable, dates c. 674; Chaplais 1968, pp. 320-1, 328, on formulation (= 1973, pp. 70, 78-9); Chaplais 1969, pp. 541-2, on formulation (= 1973, p. 106); Stenton 1971, p. 294, cited; PN Berks., i. 132-3; Cox 1976, pp. 19, 25, 31, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 41, 42, 46, on place-names; Harrison 1976, p. 72, cited; Gelling, ECTV, nos. 309, 352-4, charter is authentic; bounds; Whitelock, EHD, p. 479, authentic, bounds of much later date; Dyson 1980, land by the port of London was at Southwark; Scharer 1982, pp. 133-6, forgery based on a genuine charter granting 5 hides at Thorpe; Sawyer 1983, p. 297, on reference to Thame; Wormald 1983, p. 112; Dyson and Schofield 1984, pp. 291, 299, on Southwark reference; Fleming 1985, p. 257; Wormald 1985, pp. 9, 25, probably interpolated but basically authentic, may have been drafted by Bishop Eorcenwald; Yorke 1985, p. 32 n. 184, on historical context; Blair 1989, on historical context; Vince 1990, p. 65, cited; Dumville 1992, pp. 51-3, acceptable, discusses Chertsey archive as a whole; Keynes 1994c, pp. 2, p. 38 n. 161; Carlin 1996, p. 8 n; Faith 1997, p. 29, cited