Grant of King Hlothhere of Kent (673–685) to Abbot Beorhtwald (archbishop of Canterbury 692–731) and his monastery
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King Hlothhere of Kent grants land at Westanæ in the Isle of Thanet, Kent, and at Sturry, Kent, to Abbot Beorhtwald and his monastery; dated May 679, Reculver (Sawyer, no. 8). The earliest surviving single-sheet Anglo-Saxon charter.
