B. V., f. 216, and Aelric by Dr. Stubbs. The seventh, Sygric, is "Sigericus Dei amicus," of Tiberius B. V., and Siric of the Registrum Sacrum. 14 The Bishops of Crediton consist of seven, of whom the last is Eadnoth, who sat in the bishopric, according to his signatures, from A.D. 1012 to 1019, but another authority carries his date down to 1032. If the former limit of 1019 be correct, the compiler has not kept up his knowledge of the current history of the see, for the names of the last Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of Sherborne manifest that the first handwriting cannot be prior to A.D. 1020. 15. The last section of Episcopal Fasti is that of the Bishops of Wells, and differs wholly from the list in the Registrum Sacrum of Dr. Stubbs, which is founded on the "Nomina Uvilnensis æcclesiæ" contained in Tiberius B. V., f. 216, viz., Aðelm, Pulfhelm, Ælfheah. ii., Pulfhelm, Brihthelm, Kyneperd, Sigegar. Byrhtwig, alias Brihtwin, succeeded to the episcopal dignity in A.D. 1018, and was alive in 1020, the approximate period of the compilation of this Manuscript. 16. The list of Duces, or Ealdormen, is of interest. Many of their names can be traced among the subscriptions or attestations set at the foot of the charters and other documents printed in Kemble's Codex Diplomaticus Ævi Saxonici, and the Cartularium Saxonicum. Deormod Dux may, perhaps, be identical with Deormod the thegn, or minister, whose mark is set (in this book) to the charters of Eadweard the Elder, dated A.D. 901, pp. 210, 213, 214; Liber de Hyda, pp. 97, 101, 116; A.D. 903, p. 216; A.D. 904, pp. 156, 157, 218, etc. pured Dux occurs as Ɖuræð in a charter of the Winton Codex, A.D. 983 (Kemble, Cod. Dipl., No. DCXXXIX), and as Dured in other charters of the same MS., A.D. 985 (ib. Nos. DCXLVIII, DCL), etc. He is the Thored, Eorl, or Comes, of A.D. 992, who commands a fleet against the Danes, according to the Anglo-Saxon chronicle of that year. This Thored granted land at East Horsley, co. Surrey, to Christ Church, Canterbury.1 The parish is in the diocese of Winchester, and the rectory still in the patronage of the archbishop of Canterbury. The following poetical dedication explains that the Cotton MS. Claudius A. III (Anglo-Saxon), owes its origin to pured's instructions for its preparation :— Ic com halgungboc pus frætepum belegde. 2 þas het me pyrcean. gefremian mæg. 7 him ge pancie þas þe he on gemynde madma manega pyle ge mearcian metode to lace. 7 he sceal ęce lean pæs þe he onfoldan fremap to ryhte : f. 316. 1 Cotton MS. Claudius A. III, f. 6, "Ic pored ge ann þ land æt horslege þam hirede æt Xpe's circean for mine saple spa full 7 spa ford spa ic sylf hit ahte." 2 cf. LL. A.S., p. 119; Cadm., 51, 25. Of the other Duces in the list I have given notes at pp. 21, 22. 17. To these succeed a short list of fifteen defunct benefactors, of whom two are noteworthy because they have Anglo-Saxon surnames. 18. The list of twelve brethren of the Old Minster, or St. Peter's Winchester, includes Dom. Apelwold of blessed memory, rebuilder of New Minster and the Cathedral, and protector of the monks, whose day of deposition is celebrated yearly on I Kal. August, in memory of his death on that day, A.D. 984; his successor, Dom. Ælfheah, ordained bishop 14 Kal. November (19 October), A.D. 984, and enthroned 5 Kal. November (28 October) in the same year, and still occupant of the see; he died, after the writing of this paragraph, on 19 April, 1012; and several other bishops, the limits of whose dates are given in footnotes to p. 23, some of whom throw light upon the date of the first handwriting of the MS. 19. The Roll-call of Especial Devotees of New Minster continues the numeration from the previous article, from xiii to c, then again i to xcii, and the remainder is added without numeration in various handwritings later than the original hand, in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. One of them, the first, is of the highest interest: Dom. Uuomar, formerly Abbot of Ghent, is declared to have entered the brotherhood and commended himself to the prayers of the religious family. The fact that the death of this retired abbot, while he was an inmate of New Minster, should be especially recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (A.D. 981) tends, in my opinion, very clearly to show that the compiler of that important record was closely connected with Winchester, and in all probability an inmate of New Minster Abbey, where the local interest attaching to the history of the deceased Uuomar would be most chiefly felt. In this large array of names there are many which will attract the attention of the reader for various reasons. There is interest in the double names :— Ælfstan Claudus (the lame). At page 30, among the entries added after the first compilation, is a paragraph which seems to point out that one Wlfricus and his wife Colerune have made a compact to say or provide three masses for each monk's obit, provided that each priest says three masses for them. 20. To these follows a very lengthy muster-roll of Brethren of the New Minster, the church which is declared to be "dedicated to the Saviour of the world," and of Hyde, arranged chronologically from the earliest date to the time of Henry VIII, a period of about five hundred and sixty-five years. The method of compiling this list appears to be this:-The name of the abbot and title is first entered; after that the members of the abbey and their dignity, rank, or condition, in double rows. The list is numbered from i to vi; this includes the period from Æðelgar to Ælfpine: then it begins again at i and is carried on to ccxi, after which the principle of enumeration is abandoned, and the appearance is irregular. In addition to the early-occurring double names already pointed out in a previous list (see § 19) we may add :-1 Ælfric Mancyn (the mannikin). Ælfpeard Culla. Æthelnod Claudus (the lame). Andreas Grecus. Byrhtric Niger. Leofric Buza,3 Leofric Mancyn (the mannikin). Leofric Pix (Pitch). Rodbertus Losenge (the Losenge, or, figuratively, the Pulfsige Pikel. The titles of rank, dignity, or condition of these members of the monastic establishment include : Abbod. Cantor, the Precentor. Conversus, or lay brother. Decanus. 1 See also the obituary in pp. 269-273 for other surnames. See his obit, 3 August, p. 271. 8 See his obit, 30 July, p. 271. |