S 270
A.D. 773 for 833. Egbert, king of Kent, to Dunn, abbot, and the church of St Mary's (Lyminge); grant of 150 iugera at Sandtun (Sampton, lost, in West Hythe, Kent). Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church (ex Lyminge)
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 102 (? s. ix or x; BM Facs., i. 16)
2. BL Stowe 853, 5r-6r (s. xvii)
Printed: K 234; B 411; Earle, pp. 107-8; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 138.
Comments: Stevenson 1904, p. 199 n. 2, 10th-century imitative copy of genuine charter, with error in copying date; Stenton 1918, p. 451 n. 84, very suspicious, forger may have combined charters of Egbert II of Kent (c. 765 x c. 785) and Egbert of Wessex (802 x 839), witness-list belongs to 833 x 839 (= Stenton 1970, p. 65 n. 8); Wallenberg, KPN, p. 175; Ward 1931/1, on topography; Wright 1950, p. 389, MS 1 is in a late 9th-century hand; O'Donovan 1972, p. 30, on a witness; Tatton-Brown 1984, p. 24, on topography; Wormald 1983, p. 113 n. 62, highly suspicious in the light of S 23; Brooks 1984, p. 360 n. 67, MS 1 11th-century; Edwards 1988, pp. 275-6, fabrication based on S 23; Keynes 1993/1, p. 122 n. 53.
Endorsements:
(1) in a s. x hand: Sand tunes boc
(2) in a later hand: Egbertus rex dedit .cl. jugera ad ecclesiam
sancte Marie de Santun . Latine .
+ Regnante in perpetuum domino nostro Jhesu Christo . Cum cuncta cotidie fugitive vitae tempora prosperis et adversis causis Consistere cernimus . rapidissimoque cursu annorum spatia regnorumque ubique gaudia . finita esse manifestissimis signis declaratum est .
Quapropter ego Ecgberhtus rex Cantie necnon et aliarum gentium . cum consensu et licentia meorum optimatum non pro pecunia sed pro remedio animae meae et pro expiatione scelerum meorum . aliquantulam partem terrae juris mei id est centum quinquaginta jugera libenter donans impendo . ad aecclesiam beatae genetricis Dei et domini nostri Jhesu Christi 7 Dunne abbatissæ suisque sociis . in loco qui dicitur Sandtun . et in eodem loco salicoquenda juxta limenae . et in silva ubi dicitur andred centum viginti plaustra ad coquendum sal . Et his limitibus haec telluris particula circumgyrari videtur . ab oriente terra regis . ab austro fluvius qui dicitur liminaee . ab occasu et in septemtrione hudanfleot .
Si quis autem aliquando pulsatus aut judicatus fuerit aut heredis meus hoc neglexerit cum Juda traditore dampnatus in inferno inferiore . Scripta est haec cartula an ab incarnatione domini nostri Jhesu Christi .dcclxxiii. his testibus consentientibus quorum nomina inferius annotari videntur .