S 36

A.D. 779 (Rochester). Egbert, king of Kent, to Deora, bishop of Rochester; grant of a half sulung (aratrum) at Bromhey in Frindsbury, Kent, and a marsh on the Iaenlade (? Yantlet Creek). Latin.

Archive: Rochester

MSS: Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), 130rv (s. xii1; facsimile)

Printed: Hearne, Textus Roffensis, pp. 84-5; Thorpe, Reg. Roff., pp. 188-9; K 135; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 167 (no. 30); B 228; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 68; Campbell, Rochester, no. 10.

Comments: Wallenberg, KPN, p. 59, on place-names; Ward 1943, p. 24; Stenton 1971, p. 207, cited; Campbell, Rochester, pp. xvi, xxiii, authentic; Scharer 1982, p. 223 n., cited; Keynes 1993, pp. 115-16, on a witness; cf. S 130, which may be a confirmation or reissue of S 35 and 36.

Rubric: Item de Bromgehege ;

+ In nomine domini nostri Iesu Christi . Cum quis religiosorum uirorum fideliter deo famulantibus ex temporalibus terrenisque substantiis donare decreuerit . hoc pro certo Christo donatori bonorum omnium redonare constat . Vnde et ego Egcberht rex Cantie tibi uenerando Dioran Hrofensis ecclesie antistiti trado dimidiam partem unius aratri contiguam uidelicet eiusdem quantitatis terrulam . in regione uocabulo Bromieheg . a me antea traditae . Insuper et adiciam mariscem pertinentem ad aridam et ad aque ripam Iaenlade habentem quasi quinquaginta iugerum . et ut in tua sit facultate in perpetuum habendam possidendam tradendamque cuicunque elegeris hominum ; et siquis tam ausus sit hanc donationem meam infringere temptauerit ; sit anathema maranatha1 . Hanc cartulam in sua stabilitate manentem consentientibus religiosis personis et subscribentibus signo crucis Christi roboraui quorum nomina cum propriis infra notentur signaculis . Actum anno ab incarnatione Christi . dcclxxix . in ciuitate supradicta . + Ego Ecgberhtus donator signum crucis Christi impressi . + Signum manus Boba . + Signum manus Balthard . + Signum manus Uue'a'lhard . + Signum manus Banta . + Signum manus Billnoth . + Signum manus Osuulf . + Signum manus Bubba . + Signum manus Balthard .

1 I Cor. 16: 22