[861] Hist. Eccl. iv. 13 (ed. Plummer, i. 232).
[862] See the spurious charter of Cædwalla, K. 992 (v. 32) which purports to show where the 87 manses lay. According to it, the gift comprised some places which lay well outside the promontory of Selsey. But more of this hereafter.
[863] Napier and Stevenson, Crawford Charters, p. 43. Some of the best work that has been done towards connecting Domesday Book with the A.-S. land-books will be found in a paper on the Pre-Domesday Hide of Gloucestershire: Transactions of Bristol and Gloucestershire Arch. Soc. vol. xviii., by Mr C. S. Taylor.
[864] K. 12 (i. 16); B. i. 69; H. & S. 129; Plummer, Bede, ii. 247. The charter itself is open to grave suspicion.
[865] C. S. Taylor, The Pre-Domesday Hide of Gloucestershire.
[866] E. p. 4; B. M. Facsim. iv. 1.
[867] K. 83 (i. 100): ‘in possessionem aecclesiasticae rationis et regulae ... in ius monasticae rationis.’ K. 90 (i. 108): ‘in possessionem iuris ecclesiastici.’ K. 101 (i. 122): ‘ut sit aecclesiastici iuris potestate subdita in perpetuum.’
[868] K. 54 (i. 60) is a gift to an abbess, for compare K. 36 (i. 41). We here leave out of account the early lease for lives granted by Bp. Wilfrid, K. 91 (i. 109), an important document, but one which must be mentioned in another context.
[869] An accusative absolute.
[870] Eadric’s deed is K. 27 (i. 30). See also Hlothar’s charter K. 16 (i. 20) and Snaebraed’s, K. 52 (i. 59); B.M. Facs. i. plates 1, 3. With these should be compared the forms in Rozière, Formules, i. 208–255. On pp. 235, 253 will be found instances, one from the very ancient Angevin collection, another from Marculf, in which the breaker of the charter is threatened, not only with a money penalty, but also with excommunication and damnation.