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s. xiii in., Christ Church Canterbury

Type of MS.: Cartulary
Davis no.: 163a
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Related MSS: Incorporated into a thirteenth-fourteenth-century Register which was originally part of 'Reg. O'. The collection of charters on ff. 11-28v is very similar but not identical to Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, ff. 195-201v.
Comment: Damaged by fire in 1670.
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Charters contained:

S1609, f. 11r: Eadbald, king of Kent, to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Adisham, Kent. s. xiii in.

S8x, f. 11r-v: A.D. 679 (Reculver, May). Hlothhere, king of Kent, to Abbot Beorhtwald and his minster; grant of land at Westanae on the Isle of Thanet, and in Sturry, Kent. s. xiii in.

S230x, f. 11v: A.D. 680 (? for 685). Cædwalla, king, to Wilfrid, bishop; grant of 70 hides (tributarii) at Pagham, Shripney, Charlton, Bognor, Bersted, North Bersted, Crimsham, North and South Mundham (and, in the shortened version, Slindon), all in Sussex, and to the community at St Andrew's church situated on the east of the harbour called Uedringmutha (Pagham Harbour), grant of 10 hides (tributarii) at Tangmere, Sussex. s. xiii in.

S1610, f. 11v: A.D. 687. Cædwalla, king , to Archbishop Theodore and Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Giddinge and Wootton, Kent. s. xiii in.

S19x, ff. 11v-12r: A.D. 697 or 712 (July). Wihtred, king of Kent, to St Mary's Church, Lyminge; grant of 4 sulungs (aratra) at Pleghelmestun, Kent. s. xiii in.

S22x, ff. 12r-13r: A.D. 699 x 716 (Bapchild, Kent). Wihtred, king of Kent, to the churches and monasteries of Kent; grant of privileges and immunity to the churches and monasteries of Kent, with specific prohibition of lay domination over St Peter's at Upmynster, Reculver, Minster-in-Thanet, Dover, Folkestone, Lyminge, Minster-in-Sheppey and Hoo. Confirmation, dated A.D. 716, at a synod at Cloveshoh. s. xiii in.

S1611, f. 13r: A.D. 741. Eadberht, king, to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of fishing rights in the river Lympne, of land around the oratorium of St Martin, and of pasture at Bisceopesuuic. s. xiii in.

S90x, f. 13r-v: A.D. 742 (Clofeshos). Æthelbald, king of Mercia, to the Kentish churches; confirmation of privileges. s. xiii in.

S1612, f. 14v: A.D. 747. Eadberht, king of Kent, to Deneheah, abbot, and Reculver church; grant of the toll due on one ship at Fordwich, Kent. s. xiii in.

S38, f. 14v: A.D. 784. Ealhmund, king of Kent, to Wihtred, abbot, and his familia at Reculver; grant of 12 sulungs (aratra) at Sheldwich, Kent. s. xiii in.

S1613, ff. 14v-15r: A.D. 791. Cenwulf, king, to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Tenham, Kent, in exchange for land at the source of the Cray, Kent. s. xiii in.

S1430a, f. 15r-v: A.D. 798. Decree of a council of Bapchild, Kent, concerning the liberties of the Church. s. xiii in.

S155x, f. 15v: A.D. 799 (Tamworth, Staffs.). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Christ Church, Canterbury; restoration of 30 sulungs (aratra) at Charing, 10 at Seleberhtes cert or Bryning lond (Chart) and 4 at Humbinglond in Barham, Kent, previously seized and redistributed by King Offa. s. xiii in.

S1259, ff. 15v-16r: A.D. 805. Æthelheard, archbishop of Canterbury, recovers for Christ Church 4 sulungs (aratra) at Bishopsbourne, Kent, originally granted by Aldhun, confiscated by Offa, king of Mercia, and now restored as the result of a synodal judgement. s. xiii in.

S160x, f. 16r: A.D. 804. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, and Cuthred, king of Kent, to Selethryth, abbess, and her familia at Lyminge; grant of land in Canterbury to serve as a refuge. s. xiii in.

S111x, f. 16r: A.D. 774. Offa, king of the English, to Jænberht, archbishop; grant of 3 sulungs (aratra) at Lydd, Kent. s. xiii in.

S1436, ff. 16r-17r: A.D. 825 for c. 827 (Clofesho). Record of a dispute between Archbishop Wulfred and Coenwulf, king of Mercia, and his heir Cwoenthryth, abbess, concerning the minsters of Reculver and Minster-in-Thanet. At an initial settlement in London (? late 821) Wulfred ceded to King Coenwulf 300 hides at Iognes homme (? Eynsham, Oxon.). In subsequent settlements (at Clofesho and Oslafeshlau) Cwoenthryth ceded to Wulfred land at Harrow, Middx; Herefrethingland; Wembley, Yeading, Middx; Boc land; and Combe, Kent. s. xiii in.

S1615, f. 17r-v: Shortened and conflated version of nos 40 and 177. s. xiii in.

S1616, f. 17v: Shortened and conflated version of nos 164 and 170. s. xiii in.

S1617, f. 17v: Shortened and conflated version of nos 168 and 169 s. xiii in.

S1618, ff. 17v-18r: Shortened and conflated version of nos 1265 and 176 s. xiii in.

S175x, f. 18r: A.D. 814. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of 10 sulungs (aratra) at Bexley, Kent, with swine-pastures. s. xiii in.

S1619, f. 18r: A.D. 821. Cenwulf, king, to Wulfred, archbishop; short version of grant of land at Coppanston, Gretaniarse and Scealdefordan. s. xiii in.

S186x, f. 18r: A.D. 822 (Bydictun, 17 September). Ceolwulf, king of Mercia and Kent, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of 5 sulungs (aratra) at Mylentun, near Kemsing, Kent, in return for a gold ring worth 75 mancuses. s. xiii in.

S1620, f. 18r: A.D. 822. Beornwulf, king, to Wulfred, archbishop; note of grant of land at Godmersham. s. xiii in.

S187x, f. 18r: A.D. 823 (Werburgingwic, 26 May). Ceolwulf, king of Mercia and Kent, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of land in Canterbury, in return for a gold and silver vessel of 5.5 pounds. s. xiii in.

S1264x, f. 18v: A.D. 811 (Canterbury, 21 April). Wulfred, archbishop, to Christ Church; grant of 3 sulungs (aratra) at Folcwining lond in the district of Eastry, 1 at Liminum and 1 at Dunwaling lond, Kent, in exchange for 4 sulungs at Bishopsbourne, Kent. The land at Liminum had been granted to Wulfred by Coenwulf, king of Mercia, in exchange for land at Yarkhill, Herefords., which Wulfred had obtained from Queen Cynethryth. The land at Bishopsbourne had been given to Christ Church by Aldhun, confiscated by King Offa, and then restored. s. xiii in.

S1266x, f. 18v: A.D. 824 (Canterbury, 23 July). Wulfred, archbishop, to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of 5 sulungs (aratra) at Eythorne and Langdon in Eythorne, in exchange for 5 sulungs at Barham and Suithberhtincglond, Kent. s. xiii in.

S1621, f. 18v: A.D. 824. Wulfred, archbishop, to Christ Church, Canterbury; note of grant of land at Eastur, Waldingtun, near Canterbury. s. xiii in.

S188x, f. 18v: A.D. 831 (Wychbold, Worcs.). Wiglaf, king of Mercia, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of 5 hides (cassati) at Botwell in Hayes, Middx. s. xiii in.

S1414, ff. 18v-19r: A.D. 830 for 832 or after. Werhard, presbiter, to Christ Church, Canterbury; bequest of land comprising 104 hides at Harrow, Middx; 100 at Otford, 32 at Graveney, 44 at Burnan (? Bishopsbourne), 10 at Easole, 36 at Barham, Kent; and 1 iugum at Lambahamm by the river Lympne, 1 iugum at Northuuda, and 1 mansio at Canterbury [all of which had previously belonged to his kinsman, Archbishop Wulfred]; also 32 hides at Hayes, Middx, land at Megeldewrthe, 8 hides at Cuniland and 30 hides at Twickenham, Middx. [from his own patrimony]. s. xiii in.

S1623, f. 19r-v: A.D. 832 for 833 x 858. Æthelwulf, king, to Christ Church, Canterbury; short version of grant of land at Ebony in the Isle of Oxney, Deiferthesea, Mistanham, Langeburnan, Blaceburnanham, Pleguuiningham, Ofneham; pasture in Ægylbyrhtingahyrst; the wood called Hostringedenne; Barton near Canterbury with meadows at Scitinge and Thanington, Kent. s. xiii in.

S1438x, f. 19v: A.D. 838 (Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey). Record of the agreement made at Kingston, between Archbishop Ceolnoth and Kings Egbert and Æthelwulf concerning the restoration to Christ Church, Canterbury, of land at Mallingum (East Malling, Kent or South Malling, Sussex), previously granted by Baldred, king of Kent. In return Ceolnoth and the Christ Church community and their successors promise loyalty to the West Saxon kings and their heirs. An additional passage concerns an agreement over the election of abbots and abbesses to the Kentish minsters. Confirmations by King Æthelwulf (at a meeting at Wilton) and (A.D. 839) by bishops south of the Humber, at a synod æt Astran. s. xiii in.

S1625, f. 19v: A.D. 839. Note of purchase by Ceolnoth, archbishop of Canterbury, from Hæleth, princeps, of land at Chart. s. xiii in.

S286x, f. 19v: A.D. 838 (Canterbury, 19 Nov.). Æthelwulf, king of Kent, to Ceolnoth, archbishop; grant of one hide (mansio) at Eastre(a)stadelham. s. xiii in.

S1626, f. 19v: A.D. 844. Æthelwulf, king, to Christ Church, Canterbury; note of confirmation of the grant by Oswulf, dux, of land at Estre Stanhamstede (East Stanstead, Kent). s. xiii in.

S1627, f. 20r: A.D. 895. Plegmund, archbishop, to Christ Church; note of grant of land at Wefingemersc near the river Romney, Kent. s. xiii in.

S1628, f. 20r: A.D. 898 or 899. Alfred, king, and others to Plegmund, archbishop, and to Christ Church, and to Wærferth, bishop, and the church of Worcester; grant of 2 yokes of land at Ætheredes hyd (Queenhithe) on the Thames, one to each. s. xiii in.

S1629, f. 20r: A.D. 923. Notes of purchase by Wulfhelm, archbishop, of land near Ealdanstrate, and of land at Wadland and Wlfrethingland (outside Canterbury). s. xiii in.

S1209, f. 20r: A.D. 939. Wiihelm (? Winhelm) to Wulfhelm, archbishop; grant of land to the south of Canterbury. s. xiii in.

S132x, ff. 20v-21r: A.D. 790 for ? 795 (London). Offa, king of the English, to Æthelheard, archbishop of Canterbury; grant of 60 hides (tributaria) at Hayes and Yeading and 30 at Twickenham, Middx. s. xiii in.

S1614, f. 21r: A.D. 791. Offa, king, to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Ickham, Palmstead and Ruckinge, Kent, with woodland etc elsewhere, as in no. 123 s. xiii in.

S398, f. 21r: A.D. 927. King Athelstan to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Folkestone, Kent, the site of a former minster. s. xiii in.

S1210, f. 21r-v: A.D. 940. Eadulf, dux, to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Darenth and Meopham, Kent. s. xiii in.

S537x, f. 21v: A.D. 948 (Godeshylle, ? Gadshill, Kent). King Eadred to Canterbury Cathedral; grant of 30 hides (mansi) at Twickenham, Middx. s. xiii in.

S546x, f. 21v: A.D. 949. King Eadred to Canterbury Cathedral; grant of Reculver minster and its lands, estimated at 26 hides (cassati). s. xiii in.

S31x, f. 21v: c. A.D. 748 x 762. Eardwulf, king of Kent, to Heaberht, abbot, and his familia in the minster at Reculver; grant of 1 sulung (aratrum) at Perhamstede in Higham Upshire, Kent. s. xiii in.

S477, ff. 21v-22r: A.D. 941. King Edmund, with Eadred his brother and Eadwig his son, to Christ Church, Canterbury; restoration of land at Twickenham, Middx; Preston near Faversham, Wingham, Swarling, Bossington, Graveney and Ulcombe, Kent; with reference to grant by King Athelstan to Christ Church, Canterbury, of land at Tarring, Sussex. s. xiii in.

S1632, f. 22r: A.D. 958. Edgar to the monasteries of Kent; confirmation of privileges. s. xiii in.

S1633, f. 22r: A.D. 959. Æthelweard, minister of King Edgar, to Christ Church, Canterbury; note of grant of land at Mulaton. s. xiii in.

S1212, ff. 22r-23r: A.D. 961. Latin version of S 1211 with note of grant by Eadgifu, queen, to Christ Church, Canterbury, of land at Meopham, Cooling, Lenham, Pettham (Petham or Peckham), Farleigh, Monkton, and Ealdintun, Kent; with confirmation by King Æthelred (A.D. 995 x 1005). s. xiii in.

S1636, f. 23r: A.D. 979. King Æthelred to Christ Church, Canterbury; note of grant of land at Sandwich and Eastry, Kent. s. xiii in.

S1503x, f. 23r: A.D. 1014. Will of the Ætheling Æthelstan, including bequests of land at Adderbury, Oxon., Marlow, Bucks., and (Steeple) Morden, Cambs., to Old Minster, Winchester; at Hollingbourne and Garrington in Littlebourne, Kent, to Christ Church, Canterbury; at Rotherfield (? Sussex) to Nunnaminster, Winchester; at Chalton, Hants., Northtune and at Mollington, Oxon., to King Æthelred; land in East Anglia and Peacesdele (? Peak District or Pegsdon, Beds.) to Edmund, his brother; at Hambleden, Bucks., to Ælfmær; at Cumtune to Godwine; at Westune to Ælfswith; at Heorulfestune to Ælfwine; at Catherington, Hants., to Ælfmær; at Hockcliffe, Beds., to Siferth; at Tewin, Herts., to Æthelweard the Stammerer and to Lyfing; at Lutegaresheale (? Ludgershall, Wilts.), to Godwine the Driveller. s. xiii in.

S1378x, f. 23r-v: A.D. 995. Æscwig, bishop of Dorchester, to Ælfric, archbishop, and Christ Church, Canterbury; return of land at Monks Risborough, Bucks., mortgaged to him by Archbishop Sigeric. s. xiii in.

S1638, f. 23v: A.D. 997 for 1002 x 1051. Queen Ælfgifu-Emma to Christ Church (Canterbury); grant of land at Newington and Britwell Prior, Oxon. s. xiii in.

S905x, f. 23v: A.D. '1003' for 1002 (Canterbury, 11 July). King Æthelred to Æthelred, his faithful man; lease, for the lives of himself and his wife, of land in Canterbury and of 6 agri outside the city, in return for 7 pounds, with reversion to Christ Church, Canterbury. s. xiii in.

S1624, f. 23v: A.D. 835. Cynewaru, abbess, to Hunberht, dux; short version of grant of land at Wirksworth, Derbys., on condition of annual render of lead to Ceolnoth, archbishop, his successors and to Christ Church, Canterbury s. xiii in.

S1639, ff. 23v-24r: c. A.D. 1001. Ælfflæd, wife of Brihtnoth, to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Hadleigh, Suffolk. s. xiii in.

S1630, f. 24r: A.D. 933 or 934, ? for 944. Æthelflæd to Christ Church, Canterbury; note of grant of land at Hamme, Sussex. s. xiii in.

S1634, f. 24r: A.D. 963. Dunstan, archbishop, to Christ Church (Canterbury); note of grant of land at Vange, Essex, purchased by him from Ingelram. s. xiii in.

S1635, f. 24r: A.D. 964. Athelstan to the church of St Mary, Lyminge; note of grant of land at Ulaham. s. xiii in.

S1640, f. 24r: A.D. 1010. Ælfheah, archbishop. to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Warehorne, Kent, with note of the grant to Christ Church in his days of land at Farningham and Wootton, Kent. s. xiii in.

S952, f. 24r-v: A.D. 1018. King Cnut to Christ Church, Canterbury; confirmation of privileges. s. xiii in.

S1641, f. 24v: A.D. 1018. Athelstan (Lyfing) to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Merstham and Cheieham, Surrey. s. xiii in.

S950x, f. 24v: A.D. 1018. King Cnut, at the request of Queen Ælfgifu (Emma) to Archbishop Ælfstan; grant of a copse called Hæselersc (Lower Hazelhurst) in Ticehurst, Sussex. s. xiii in.

S1642, f. 24v: A.D. 1035. King Cnut to Eadsige, bishop of St Martin's, near Canterbury; grant for Christ Church of land at Appeldore, Palstre and at Wittersham, Kent. s. xiii in.

S1222x, f. 24v: ? A.D. 1036. Thored to Christ Church; grant of land at East Horsley, Surrey. s. xiii in.

S1221x, f. 24v: A.D. 1026. Healthegen (? Haldane) Scearpa to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Saltwood, Kent. s. xiii in.

S914, ff. 24v-25v: A.D. 1006 for 1002. King Æthelred to Christ Church, Canterbury; refoundation of the monastic community and confirmation of land at Eastry, Ickham, Bossington, Adisham, Appledore, Swarling, Preston, Graveney, Westwell, Chart and Farleigh, Kent; at Patching, Sussex; at Meopham and Cooling in West Kent; at Walworth, Surrey; at Risborough, Bucks.; at Lawling in Latchingdon, Essex; at Hadleigh and Monks Eleigh, Suffolk; and in Thanet. s. xiii in.

S1218, f. 25v: A.D. 995 x 999. Æthelric and Leofwyn to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Bocking and Mersea, Essex. s. xiii in.

S1637, f. 25v: A.D. 991. Brihtnoth, dux, to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Lawling, Essex; Eleigh and Hadleigh, Suffolk. s. xiii in.

S1646, ff. 25v-26r: A.D. 1042 x 1066. Godwine and Wulfgyth to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Stisted and Coggeshal, Essex. s. xiii in.

S1643, f. 26r: A.D. 1038. King Cnut to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Folkestone, Kent. s. xiii in.

S1089, f. 26r: A.D. 1052 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Archbishop Stigand and the community at Christ Church all the lands that they had in the time of his predecessors and in his own time. s. xiii in.

S1047, f. 26r-v: A.D. 1042 x 1066. King Edward to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Chartham, Kent, and Walworth, Surrey, and confirmation of land at Sandwich, Eastry, Folkestone, Thanet, Adisham, Ickham, Chartham, Godmersham, Westwell, East Chart, the other Chart, Berwick, Brook, Warehorne, Appledore, Mersham, Orpington, Preston, Meopham, Cooling, Farningham, Hythe, Hollingbourne, Farleigh, Peckham, all in Kent; at Patching and Wootton in Sussex; at Walworth, Merstham, Cheam, and Horsley in Surrey; at Southchurch, Laver, Milton (Hall) in Prittlewell, Lawling in Latchingdon, Bocking, St Osyth and Stisted in Essex; at Hadleigh and Monks Eleigh, Suffolk; at Monks Risborough in Bucks.; and at Newington and Britwell Prior, Oxon. s. xiii in.

S1090, f. 26v: A.D. 1053 x 1061. Writ of King Edward declaring that the land at Mersham, Kent, is to belong to Christ Church with sake and soke, as fully and completely as Sigweard and his wife granted it to that house. s. xiii in.

S1645, f. 26v: A.D. 1042 x 1066. Godwine to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at St Osyth, Essex. s. xiii in.

S1530, ff. 26v-27r: A.D. 1042 x 1043. Bequest by Thurstan of land at Wimbish, Essex, to Christ Church. s. xiii in.

S1631, f. 27r: A.D. 947. Wulfric to Christ Church, Canterbury; note of grant of land at Patching, Sussex. s. xiii in.

S1389, f. 27r: A.D. 1037. Æthelnoth, archbishop of Christ Church, to Christ Church; grant of land at Godmersham which he had bought from Earl Sired for 72 marks of gold. s. xiii in.

S1644, f. 27r: A.D. 1040 x 1042. Wulfstan, wilde preost, to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Thurrock, Essex. s. xiii in.

S1258, ff. 27v-28r: A.D. 798 (Clofesho). Æthelheard, archbishop of Canterbury, to Cynethryth, abbess; grant of the minsters at Cookham, Berks., and at Pectanege, in exchange for 60 hides (cassati) at Fleet, 30 at Teynham and 20 at the source of the Cray, Kent. s. xiii in.

S959x, f. 28r-v: A.D. 1023. King Cnut to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of the port of Sandwich. s. xiii in.

S1637, f. 108r: A.D. 991. Brihtnoth, dux, to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Lawling, Essex; Eleigh and Hadleigh, Suffolk. s. xiii

S1218x, f. 108r: A.D. 995 x 999. Æthelric and Leofwyn to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Bocking and Mersea, Essex. s. xiii