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A.D. 786 x 796. Beonna, abbot of Medeshamstede, to Cuthbert, princeps; lease of 10 hides (manentes) at Swineshead, Lincs., in return for 1000 shillings and annual hospitality (unius noctis pastum) valued at 30 sicli, with ultimate reversion to Medeshamstede. Latin

Archive:

Peterborough

MSS:

1. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, f. 41r-v (s. xii med.)
2. Peterborough, DC., 1, f. 131r (s. xiii med.)

Printed: [Sort: By Date | Alphabetically]

K, 165; B, 271; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 85; Kelly, Peterborough, p. 202-203, Transcription of the Latin text of the charter

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Stubbs 1861a, p. 206, cited; Stenton 1933, pp. 313-14, no reason for suspicion (= 1973, pp. 179-80); Whitelock 1954, p. 33, genuine; Hart, ECEE, no. 147, authentic; Stenton 1971, pp. 484-5, cited; Finberg 1972, p. 460; Campbell 1989, pp. 30, 34, on money-transaction; Keynes 1994c, pp. 35 n. 148, 36-7, authentic; Faith 1997, p. 162; Sawyer 1998, pp. 231, 239; Kelly, Peterborough, p. 122, Description of charter contents, labelled 7, p. 203-205, Discussion of the charter as authentic, one of the first examples of ecclesiastical land grants to secular persons, the earliest charter to refer to mention Medeshamstede explicitly, and its specific financial details