[73] One copy of the A.-S. Chronicle has “Middelseaxe” as early as A.D. 653, the other four testify this to be miswritten for “Middelengle.”
[74] Conc. pp. 291, 313, 314.
[75] A. Sax. Chron.
[76] 6-inch scale.
[77] C.D., No. CXVI.
[78] Sheet 1.
[79] Hist. of Kent, vol. I., p. 526-7.
[80] See also “Willelmus de Cloeville duas partes decime de Acle.” (Mon. Angl., vol. I., 169.)
[81] Cod. Dip. CXXI.
[82] Hasted (vol. I. p. 531.) quotes a charter of Æthelred, A.D. 1001, granting to the Priory of Canterbury “Terram Clofiæ.” That is, apparently, regranting to his newly instituted monks, this very piece of land which Offa had earlier granted to the secular church. If so, the orthography “Clofia,” points to its identity with “Cloveshoe.” The nature of the document quoted by Hasted, may be gathered from a contemporary one of the same kind, printed in the Monasticon. Vol. I. p. 99. No. V.