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Saxon Charters
- England, especially at Rotherfield, and in Hastings, and Pevensey, at the salt works, and in " Ludenuvic " (Sandwich ?). Restitution is decreed and gifts are made to the Abbey. Done by the King in the presence of his Nobles at London, and " marked with the sign of the most victorious Cross of Christ."
3. Restitution by King Aedgard (i.e. Eadgar) to Vitalis, the Provost of the Abbey of St. Denis in France, of its possessions appropriated by Togred, the Provost of the King's household. 26th December, A.D. 960.[1]
4. Precept from beyond the Sea. The Precept of King Eadgar.
In this document of injunction it is recited that the Abbot Vitalis complains that one Togred, superintendent of the King's palace, had carried away 300 sheep, 50 oxen, and 100 measures of salt from their salt works and robbed the peasants, as if at the King's bidding. Restitution is decreed, and Togred is spared at the intercession of the monks ; the injunction was to be laid on the tombs of the Saints of the Abbey.
The document purports to have been written by one Edilvinus (amanuensis cartographus) of the King's household, who read it and signed it before those present, and it is certified that Togred carried this precept to the tombs of the Holy Martyrs, Dionysius, Rusticus, and Eleutherius.
5. Confirmation by Offa, King of the Mercians, to the Abbey of St. Denis in France, of land at " Ludenuoic" (Sandwich ?), Ridrefeld, etc., I2th April, A.D. 790.[2]This deed purports to be a confirmation by Offa (called the glorious King of the English) of a gift to the Abbey of St. Denis in France, of land at Ludenuoic (Sandwich ?), and also the gifts of Ridrefeld (Rotherfield, Sussex) on the river Seaford and of the seaports Hastings and Pevensey, which had been given in the above grant. (Signed by Offa and attested by eight witnesses.)
There is a memorandum that the deed was deposited on the tomb of St. Denis by the King's Command.
- England, especially at Rotherfield, and in Hastings, and Pevensey, at the salt works, and in " Ludenuvic " (Sandwich ?). Restitution is decreed and gifts are made to the Abbey. Done by the King in the presence of his Nobles at London, and " marked with the sign of the most victorious Cross of Christ."
The earliest direct and unquestionably genuine reference to Hastings is that in the law of Athelstane, where a moneyer is appointed to the Mint at Hastings (see account of Hastings Mint,post). The next reference appears in the Saxon Chronicle under the year 101 1, in connexion with the Danes.
- Thorpe, p. 117. "An. M.XI. In this year the king (Ethelred II. the Unready) and his Witan sent to the Danish army and desired peace, and promised them tribute and food, on condition that they would cease from their plundering. They had then overrun, 1st, East Anglia, and 2nd, Essex, and 3rd, Middlesex, and 4th, Oxfordshire, and 5th, Cambridgeshire, and 6th, Hertfordshire, and 7th, Buckinghamshire, and 8th, much in Northamptonshire, and south of the Thames, all Kent and Sussex, and Hastings (Hasting and Hastingas), and Surrey, and Berkshire, and Hampshire, and much in Wiltshire. All these calamities befel us through evil counsels, that tribute was not offered them in time, or they were not fought against ; but when they had done most evil, then a truce of peace was made for them ; and nevertheless for all this peace and tribute, they went everywhere in flocks, and harried our wretched people, and robbed and slew them."
In connexion with this passage, it should be observed that the name Hastings here mentioned occurs rather as the name of a district or county than as that of a town. The caput, or chief place in this district, would probably have been " Hastinga-Ceaster."
- ↑ Archives de France, K 17, No. 3, A.D. 960 Restitution by King Eadgard of goods taken from the possessions of St. Denis Hastengas and Pevenisel, printed in Doublet, p. 817. Felib. p. lxxix. No. cv. Bouquet, Recueil des Historiens de Gaule et de la France, ix. 397; Madden, Arch Journal, xiii. 366; Tardif, p. 146 (Birch, iii 277). Described in Brequigny i. 432. App. D., Cooper's Report, p. 139.
- ↑ Archives de France in the Hotel Soubise, Paris, K. 7, No. 10, A.D. 790. Confirmation by King Offa to St. Denis of lands in the port of Lundenuic, given by his brothers Agonavuola and Sigrinus, and of the preceding grant, printed in Doublet,. p. 720; Felib. Histoire de l'Abbaye Royal de St. Denys en France, Paris, 1706, folio; Pieces Justifatives, p. xliii. No. lxii; Madden, Arch Journal, xxxiii, 361; J. Tardif, Archives de l'Empire; Les Monuments Historiques, 1866, p. 68; Birch, Cart. Sax, i.360. Described in Brequigny, Table Chronologique de Diplomes, etc, Paris, 1769, etc., folio. l. 123. Appendix D. to Cooper's Report on Rhymer's Fǽdera, p. 139.
