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S 163

A.D. 808 (Tamworth, Staffs., Easter Day, 16 April). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Eadwulf, minister; grant of 1.5 sulungs (aratra) at Cooling, Kent. Latin with bounds.

Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church

MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 98 (s. ix¹; BM Facs., ii. 9)
2. BL Stowe 853, 13rv (s. xvii)

Printed: K 194; B 326.

Comments: Sweet, OET, p. 455 (no. 50); Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 106-7, on place-names; Parsons 1939, pp. 14, 21-2, 24-5, genuine and contemporary; Wright 1950, p. 391; Bruckner 1965, p. 29, on script; Ch.L.A., iv, p. xviii, on script; Chaplais 1968, p. 333, MS 1 original, discusses attached schedule of witnesses (= 1973, p. 84); Sawyer 1983, pp. 296-7, on meeting-place; Brooks 1984, pp. 169-70, 359 n. 67, p. 361 n. 76, MS 1 original, Canterbury formulation although issued at Tamworth and covering land in Rochester diocese; Kelly 1990, p. 44, cited with reference to schedule of witnesses; cf. S 293.

Endorsements:
(1) twice in a contemporary hand: Culingaboc
(2) in a hand of s. xii: Rex Kenulfus dedit culig eaduulfo ministro

Px Anno vero dominicæ incarnationi . dccc ^oviii ^o . indict' . xv ^a . et regni mei a Deo concessi . xii ^o . ego Coenuulf rex Merciorum pro remedie animæ meæ et pro absolutione peccaminum meorum tibi meo fideli ministro Eaduulfo dabo aliquantulam partem terræ juris mei in propriam potestatem id est unam aratro et dimidiam in loco quæ appellatur Culingas cum omnibus usis ad eam rite pertinentibus ad habendam ac possidendam et cuicumque placuerit in hereditate derelinquendam . Hæc sunt termina huius agri . ab oriente cyninges tuntih ab aquilone genlad ab occidente biornheardes lond a meridiæ ðorndun . Si quis autem quod non optamus malivolo mente hanc meam donationem infringere temtaverit sciat se rationem esse reddituram ante tribunal domini nostri Jhesu Christi nisi ante ea pleniter emendaverit .

Actum est in loco celeberrimo quæ a vulgo vocatur Tomeworðig . xvi . k'l m?i . et eodem die pascha celebratur coram his testibus quorum nomina supter conscripta notantur .

+ Ego Coenuulf rex Merciorum propria manu signo sanctæ crucis Christi consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Ælfðryð regina consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Heaberht dux consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Beor'n'noð dux consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Ceolward dux consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Cynhelm dux consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Ecgferð dux consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego By'r'nwald dux consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Eadferð dux consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Heardberht dux consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Ceolberht dux consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Dynne dux consensi 7 subscripsi .