S 1210
A.D. 940. Eadulf, dux, to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Darenth and Meopham, Kent. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, 200r (s. xii)
2. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. P, 21rv (s. xii)
3. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, p. 322 (s. xiii)
4. Bodleian, Tanner 223, 15r (s. xvi)
Printed: Twysden, X Scriptores, col. 2220 ex MS 1; K 1130; B 747; Fleming 1997, p. 132 (no. 44) ex MS 2.
Comments: Robinson 1919, p. 43, cannot be authentic in present form; Wallenberg, KPN, p. 246, on place-names; Brooks 1984, p. 221, spurious; cf. S 477, 1511.
Darente . Mepeham .
[+ A]nno dominice incarnationis . dcccc . xl . Ego Eadulfus dux per concessionem domini mei regis Athelstani . presente Wlfelmo archiepiscopo concedo ecclesie Christi . ad victum monachorum in eadem ecclesia Deo serviencium . has terras . de propria possessione mea . quas michi idem Athelstanus Rex in perpetuam hereditatem dedit . videlicet Dærintan 7 Meapeham . liberas ab omni seculari consuetudine . 7 regio tributo . exceptis . expedicione pontis . 7 arcis constructione .
Ego Athelstanus rex tocius Britannie hanc donacionem confirmo .
Ego . Wlhelmus archisacerdos tocius Britannie confirmo .
Ego Odo Scirburnensis . subscripsi .
Ego Dunstanus . subscripsi .