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S 1173

c. A.D. 700. Bruny (Bryni), dux of Sussex, to Eadberht, abbot; grant of 4 hides (manentes) Hileigh, Sussex. Latin

Archive:

Selsey

MSS:

1. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Episc. VI/1/2, f. 16v(s. xiv)

Printed:

Kelly, Selsey, no. 3; B, 80, ex Mon. Angl; Mon. Angl., iii. 115; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), vi. 1163 (no. 2)

Printed and Translated:

Barker 1947, (no. 6), pp. 73-4

Comments:

Darlington 1961, p. 20, probably genuine; Cox 1976, pp. 22-3, on place-name; Kelly, Selsey, pp. 23-4, probably has an least an authentic basis; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 70, Lost charter granting land to Glastonbury during the reign of King Edgar; Barker 1947, p. 74; Stenton 1918, p. 438 and n. 24, ill-copied fragment, probably authentic (= Stenton 1970, p. 52)

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    • In nomine Domini nostri saluatoris. Ego Bruny dux Suthsax' partem agri iuris mei pro remedio anime mee Eadberto abbati ad insulam que appellatur Selesey libenter concedo, id est quattuor manentes in loco qui uocatur Hileghe. + Ego Nunna rex hanc donationem consensi et subscripsi. + Ego Wattus rex consensi et propria manu scripsi. +
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    • Rubric: Carta Bruny ducis Suthsaxonum de quattuor manentibus in Hileghe In nomine Domini nostri saluatoris. Ego Bruny dux Suthsaxonum partem agri iuris mei pro remedio anime mee Eadberto abbati ad insulam que appellatur Selesey libenter concedo, id est quattuor manentes in loco qui uocatur Hileghe. + Ego Nunna rex hanc donationem consensi et subscripsi. + Ego Wattus rex consensi et propria manu scripsi. +