1 Here a note in Astle's handwriting : "Eadnoth was Bishop of Crediton from A.D. 1014 to 1032." Dr. Stubbs finds the first signature of Eadnoth in A.D. 1012, and the last in A.D. 1019. 2 i.e., of Wells, co. Somerset. 8 Dr. Stubbs' list, probably founded on Cotton MS., Tiberius B.V., f. 216., 6 of the Northumbrians, A. D. 966. or of the South Saxons, A.D. 680. 20 25 xv. Godpine 2 dux. NOMINA BENEFACTORUM DEFUNCTORUM. i. Æpelgeard préng.3 5 NOMINA FRATRUM UETERIS CęNOBII UUENTANE 20 i. Domnus Beatę memorię pater Apeluuoldus. ponti- 1 of the Southsaxons, ob. A.D. 982, buried at Abingdon. 2 Dux, comes Cantiæ, Suthsaxonum, et Westsaxonum, A.D. 1019; ob. at Winchester, A.D. 1053. 3A name of which we have an earlier example in Eadbryght Praen, King of Kent A.D. 794-796. Ethelwold I, Bishop of Winchester, ob. 1 August, A. D. 984. p. 25.] ii. Domnus quoque successor ipsius aeque uenerabilis iii. Ælfstan3 episcopus Piltuniensis 5 ecclesiae. 10 ecclesię v. Ælfnoð episcopus Dorcensis ecclesię. vi. Æpelsige episcopus Scirburnensis ecclesię. vii. Pulfgar episcopus Piltuniensis ecclesię viii. ÆlfstanR episcopus Hrofensis ecclesię. viiii. Ælfheah' episcopus Licetfeldensis ecclesię x. Æscpig 10 episcopus Dorcensis ecclesię. xi. Apulf11 episcopus. xii. Sigar 12 episcopus Pyllunnensis ecclesię. 1 A.D. 984 ... "and seo halgung þæs æfterfilgendum bisceopes Ælfheages.se be oðran naman pas geciged Godpine. pas. xiiii. kal' . Novembris. and he gefæt bone bisceop-stol an þara tpegra apostola mæsse-dæg. Simonis and Judæ. [v. kal. Novembr, or 28 October,] on Pintanceastre."-A. S. Chr. ad an. 2 This paragraph must have been written before 19 April, 1012, the date of Ælfheah's death. It indicates the date of the first handwriting or original text of this MS. Ælfstan, Bishop of Ramsbury, ob. A.D. 981. Sideman, Bishop of Crediton, ob. 30 April, 977. 6 Ethelsi, Bishop of Sherborne, circ. A.D. 978—990. 15 ISTI QUOQUE SPECIALITER SE DEUOUERUNT. xiii. Domnus abba Uuomarus1. Qui olim c'o'enobio GENT prelatus. hanc devotus adiit gentem. huiusque se familie precibus humillime commendavit. xiiii. Osgar 2 abbas. Abbandoniensis c'o'enobii. Germanus abbas. Ramensis 3 5 XV. coenobii. 1 A.D. 981. 10 15 Monachus. Sacerdos. 20 Leuita. "And on þam ylcan geare foröferde Pomar. abbod on Gent," A. S. Chron., ad an., wrongly translated by the Editors of the Mon. Hist. Brit. "at Ghent." 2ob. viii. kal. Jun., probably A. D. 984, MS. Cott. Titus D. xxvii, f. 56. 3 Occurs in A. D. 993, 995, Kemble, Cod. Dipl., Nos. DCLXXXIV and MCCLXXXIX. 4 Brihtnoð, Abbot of Ely, occurs in the A. S. Chr. in 963. "Ob. iii. id. Mai. Brithnodus primus abbas hujus ecclesiæ."-Ancient Calendar in the Historia Eliensis, Trin. Coll. Cantab. MS. O. 2. 1. Occurs in A.D. 970, 972, 974; Kemble, Cod. Dipl., Nos. MCCLXX,_DLxx, DLXXIV, DLXXXV. Hoare, Registr. Wiltun., p. 50 (Erihteah). Brihteh, Abbot of Pershore, occurs A.D. 1032-1038. Dugd. Mon. Angl. 6 There are several Abbots with this name about this period. 7 I have not been able to identify this Abbot. 8 Appointed circ. A.D. 968. Occurs in A.D. 993, in Kemble, Cod. Dipl., No. DLXXXIV; and Godman also later, to 1012, ib. MCCCVII, but perhaps not the same man. 9 This word in a later handwriting. |