Ismere Diploma

The Ismere Diploma (London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii.

3) is a charter of 736, in which Aethelbald of Mercia grants ten hides of land near Ismere to Cyneberht, his "venerable companion",[1] for the foundation of a coenubium (minster).

[2] The charter survives in what is thought to be a contemporary manuscript, now in the British Library.

The addition of the later witnesses is an indication that the document is an original, and not a copy made later.

[2] The traditional view has that the latter was to interpret Moerheb as Morfe,[5] but this is a geographic impossibility.