NOTICE. A word of explanation appears necessary to account for the appearance of the Third Volume of this Work before the Second. The illness of one of the Editors who had undertaken the charge of the Second Volume, and the amount of labour contributed by him to the Third Volume, have occasioned an unfortunate delay in the completion of the former. The Third Volume being now ready for publication, and being required for the use of the Theological School at Oxford, it has not seemed desirable to delay the issue of it, especially as it contains a complete and separate period of History. The Second Volume is proceeding rapidly, and will, it is hoped, be published before the middle of 1872. Wilkins's Concilia, Vol. III. VOL.III. B Necessarium satis est, ut plures tibi sacri operis adjutores adsciscas, presbyteros videlicet ordinando, atque instituendo doctores qui in singulis viculis prædicando Dei verbo, et consecrandis mysteriis cælestibus, ac maxime peragendis sacri baptismatis officiis, ubi opportunitas ingruerit, insistant. In qua videlicet prædicatione populis exhibenda, hoc præ cæteris omni instantia procurandum arbitror, ut fidem catholicam, quæ apostolorum symbolo continetur, et Dominicam orationem quam sancti Evangelii nos Scriptura edocet, omnium qui ad tuum regimen pertinent, memoriæ radicitus infigere cures.-BED. ad Ecgb. 3. × (as A.D. 601 × 604). This mark is used to signify that the event |