S 315

A.D. 855. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex and Kent, to Dunn, his minister; grant of a messuage (haga) in the south of the city of Rochester. Latin

Archive:

Rochester

MSS:

1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 139v-140r (s. xii 1; facsimile)
2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), f. 9r (s. xiv)

Printed:

Hearne, Textus Roffensis, pp. 102-3; Thorpe, Reg. Roff., p. 24; K, 276; HS, pp. 644-5; B, 486 (1); Earle, pp. 336-7; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 21; Pierquin, Conciles, pp. 502-3; Campbell, Rochester, no. 23

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 89 (pp. 525-6)

Comments:

HS, pp. 638, 644-5, doubtful; Stevenson 1904, pp. 188 and n. 2, 193 and n. 4, apparently authentic; Robertson, Charters, pp. 276-7; Finberg, ECW, p. 202, authentic; Whitelock 1966, p. 102, treats as genuine; Campbell, Rochester, p. xxiv, authentic, but reference to the king's pilgrimage to Rome has been added; Whitelock, EHD, p. 525, authentic; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, pp. 233-4, 235 n. 27, authentic; Smyth 1995, pp. 382-4; Stewartby 1998, p. 151; Wormald 2001, p. 266, on hereditary possession; Nelson 2004, p. 17, on lay beneficiaries; Pratt, Alfred, pp. 67, 334, authentic

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    • + In nomine trino diuino . Ego »ðeluulfus rex Occidentalium Saxonum necnon et Cantuariorum . pro decimatione agrorum quam deo donante ceteris ministris meis facere decreui . tibi Dunne ministro meo dabo unam uillam . quod nos Saxonice an haga dicimus in meridie castelli Hrobi . et decem iugera a meridiano plaga uilluli illius adiacentia . necnon et duo iugera prati . et . x . carros cum siluo honestos in monte regis . et communionem marisci que ad illam uillam antiquitus cum recto pertinebat . et hoc ipsum tibi ad habendam et possidendam concedendo donamus . et post dies tuos cuicunque herede tibi placuerit derelinquendam cum plena libertate habeas potestatem . Hanc predictam donationem et libertatem ego »ðeluulf rex deo donante perfeci anno dominice incarnationis . dccclv . indictione . iiia . hoc est diuina gratia largiente quando ultra mare Romam perrexi . coram his testibus qui hoc mecum consentiendo subscripserunt . + Ego Aeðeluulf rex hanc meam donationem et libertatem cum signo sancte crucis Christi roboraui et subscripsi . + Ego Ceolnoð archiepiscopus consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Aeðelberht rex consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Lullede dux consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Aeðelmod dux consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Ælfred filius regis consens\i/ et subscripsi . + Ego Eadred dux consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Æðelric dux consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Cineheh miles consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Milred miles consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Ceolmund miles consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Lulla miles consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Æðelred miles consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Wulflaf miles consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Æðelred miles consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Wæhtgar miles consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Duduc miles consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Osberht miles consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Sigenoð miles consensi et subscripsi .
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    • + In nomine trino diuino . Ego E∂eluulfus rex Occidentalium Saxonum necnon et Cantuariorum . pro decimatione agrorum quam deo donante ceteris ministris meis facere decreui . tibi Dunne ministro meo dabo unam uillam . quod nos Saxonice an haga dicimus