7] BISHOP BIRINUS. VII 231 AT Cynigilsus king of The two kings.gave Birinus died there, Cynigilsus was suc this time the West Saxons, anciently called Geuissae, were converted by the preaching of bishop Birinus. He was sent by pope Honorius and intended to penetrate into the interior of Britain, 5 but coming first to the Geuissae, and finding them pagans he tarried and laboured there. Oswald was present when the Geuissae was baptized and was his sponsor. to Birinus the city of Dorcic for an episcopal seat. but his body was afterwards removed to Venta. IO ceeded by his son Coinuàlch who refused to become a Christian. He was soon afterwards driven from his kingdom by Penda king of Mercia whose sister he had put away from being his wife,and married another. Coinualch took refuge with Anna king of the East Angles and there he became a Christian. He was afterwards restored to his 15 kingdom and he made Agilberctus a bishop among his people, but becoming wearied of a man whose language he did not understand (for Agilberctus was a Gaul who had been instructed in Ireland), he appointed another bishop, Vini, and Agilberctus, offended at the division of his diocese, retired to Gaul, and became bishop of Paris. 20 After a while Vini was also driven away, and procured by purchase the bishopric of London from the king of the Mercians. So the Geuissae were long time without a bishop, and in that period Coinualch experienced great losses at the hands of his enemies; so he desired to recall Agilberctus, but that bishop excused himself and sent instead 25 his nephew Leutherius, who was consecrated bishop of the West Saxons by Theodore archbishop of Canterbury. P 30 10 QVI-VOCANTVR omitted in the Saxon version. 12 BIRINO EPISCOPO before the time of Higden some marvels had been attached to the account of the arrival of Birinus. See Po 30 lychronicon v 13. 35 14 ILLO PRAESENTE in the presence of king Oswald cf p 23 1 20-32. inland. IN INTIMIS VLTRA ANGLORVM PARTIBVS in the north, 16 17 ASTERIVM GENVENSEM EPISCOPVM Stevenson 'abp of Milan, resided at Genoa, where he died 640 (Ughelli Italia sacra IV 64)'. 26 EVMQVE DE LAVACRO i. e. was his sponsor and received 232 SPONSORS. SUBREGULI. [III him from the font as undertaking to guide and instruct him further in the ways of Christianity. Filium de baptismo suscipere was a common phrase=åvadéxeo@al. cf Bingham ch ant bk IX c 8 § 7. The Saxon phrase was 'onfeng hine him to suna' received him for his son. P 30 28 DEO DIGNO CONSORTIO Stevenson Oswald did not hold the opinion that the spiritual affinity thus contracted with Cynigils, by having stood as his sponsor in baptism, placed any obstacle in the way of his marriage with the daughter of that prince'. cf Bonif ep 30 Jaffé. cod Iustin v 4 26. conc Trull c 53. 5 P 31 1 I DONAVERVNT endowment p 25 1 8. IV 13 end. Eddius 10 8. Lingard I 143 on church-building. AMBO REGES P 29 15 n. So Aedilberct and Saberct jointly founded St Paul's II 3 (Smith). Ecgrice shared the kingly power with Sigberct in E Anglia p 52 1 2. In Essex Sigheri and Sebbi were subject to the Mercian king Vulfhere p 861 4. subreguli in Wessex 15 p 1131 18 (Hussey). cf p 44 1 19 n. p 63 1 6. 2 DORCIC Sax Chron Dorceceastre, now Dorchester in Oxfordshire. After the Norman conquest the see of Dorchester was united to Lincoln. 6 HAEDDE abp Theodore in verses appended to the Corpus ms 20 of his penitential (Haddan-Stubbs III 203) asks for bp Haeddi's Letter to him from Aldhelm (Bonif ep 3 Jaffé). Pagi 676 16. 705 14. Will Malmesb pontif Angl II 3. Mabillon Bened saec III part I pp 64—66. 278. prayers. TRANSLATVS see glossary. 7 VENTAM the form given by the Romans to the Keltic gwent a plain. The city spoken of in the text was called Venta Belgarum (Winchester) to distinguish it from Venta Icenorum (Caistor near Norwich) and Venta Silurum (Caergwent). 15 ANNA he was father-in-law of Earconberct king of Kent; and was slain 654 A D. 16 EXVLANS FIDEM COGNOVIT as Oswald and others p 19 1 11. 25 30 A D, was driven from his kingdom 645 A D, and restored 648 A D. 20 AGILBERCTVS A D 1636 his body was found (Pagi 680 20) 'sepultum cum pontificiis indumentis contextis ex serico cum fimbriis aureis.' Gallia Chr VII 26 seq. AA SS Oct V 492. 5 7] KINGDOM OF KENT. 233 P 31 21 LEGENDARVM GRATIA SCRIPTVRARVM IN HIBERNIA DE MORATVS P 79 1 11—20 n. 27 SAXONVM LINGVAM cf p 23 1 25 Anglorum linguam. P 32 1 2 REDIIT GALLIAM the Sax Chron places his return 660 A D, but as he was present at the synod of Whitby 664 A D, he pro10 bably did not return before that year. 6 EMIT PRETIO unde post mortem in serie episcoporum Londinensium non meruit recenseri. Matth West a 666. 20 IN N 640 AD Eadbald king of Kent was succeeded by his son Earconberct. This was the first English king who put down the worship of idols in his kingdom by authority. He had a daughter worthy of such a father. This was the virgin Earcongota who entered a Frankish monastery at the place called In Brige. In those days many persons 25 went from England into the monasteries in Gaul. Thus did Saethryd daughter of the wife of king Anna, and Aedelberg the same king's own daughter. Many miracles are related concerning Earcongota. Beda only speaks of what happened at the time when she died. She visited all the infirm sisters in the monastery, and besought their prayers, for 30 she knew her death was near at hand. She had beheld a vision of a troop of men clad in white, who told her they were come to fetch a gold coin which had been brought from Kent. On the night of her death angels were heard to sing around the monastery, and a great light shone down from heaven. She was buried in the church of St Stephen, and when three days after the stone which covered the grave was moved, there came forth a fragrance like spikenard. 35 Her aunt Aedilberg was a holy virgin and an abbess. She began to build a church in her monastery, but dying before it was finished, she 234 FOREIGN NUNNERIES. [III was buried in the uncompleted church. The church afterwards could not be completed, and when her body was to be moved, it was found to be without any mark of decay or corruption. P 33 2 EADBALD Pagi 618 2-4. 640 10. Flor Vigorn app P 633be MHB. His wife Emma was dau of Theodebert king of 5 Austrasia. IEIVNIVM XL DIERVM p 63 1 29 seq. Theodore's penitential II 14 I (Haddan-Stubbs III 202) three fasts in the year the 40 10 days before Easter, the 40 days before Christmas, the 40 days after Pentecost. cf Lingard 1 101. " 9 ΙΟ PVNITIONES baptism by force Baronius 632 3. EARCONGOTAE for her biography see Surius VII 57. FARA also called Burgundofara. Baronius 614 13. Pagi 614 15 35-37. 640 11. Mabillon ann Bened I 304. 321. 343. 434. IN BRIGE cf p 171 18 Ingyruum. v 1 Inrhypum. ▼ 2 (cf 6 end) a monastery called Inderauuda, id est In Silua Derorum. Stevenson 'Faremoustier-en-Brie, formerly a celebrated Benedictine nunnery Gallia Chr VIII 1700. (ibid VII 558 CALE, Chelles, about four 20 miles from Paris, a nunnery founded by Bathildis queen of Clovis II. ANDILEGVM ib XI 31. Mabillon ann Bened 1 123. Andeley, an extinct nunnery near Rouen, founded by Clotilda wife of Clovis the Great)'. FILIAS Lingard I 193. 17 21 NATVRALIS born to him, not adopted; so sometimes in Elizabethan English. See a good example of this use of natural in Timon of Athens IV 3 383 where Timon apostrophizing the gold says O thou sweet king-killer, and dear divorce 'Twixt natural son and sire! 'Plessaeus hist eccl Meldensis 1 698. 28 AA SS July II 481' (Stevenson). EARCONGOTAM AA SS III 387. Mabillon ann Bened 25 30 TRANSITV there is a great similarity between what is here 35 related of the death of Earcongota, and the popular stories concerning the assumption of the Virgin Mary see Cursor Mundi IV p 1152 seqq. P 34 4 OBITVM SVVM, QVEM REVELATIONE DIDICERAT IV 29 n. 6 ALBATORVM glossary. p 28 1 27 angelorum. p 112 1 18 claro indutos habitu. I 19 end. V 12. 40 15 8] VISIONS OF ANGELS. P 34 9 ILLO thither. 235 IO NOMISMA Lingard 11 401 this shews 'that gold coins were known in France, but cannot prove that they were current in Kent'. 13 FRATRIBVS p 39 1 3. p 106 14 n. According to the con5 stitution of the early monastic establishments a certain number of monks were deputed to perform the ecclesiastical services of each monastery Mabillon ann Bened XI 10. "" 14 CONCENTVS ANGELORVM p 95 1 26 to p 97 1 9. Eddius c 63 at Wilfrid's funeral super domum quasi residentium auium cum IO sonitu iterum (cf c 62 at the hour of his passing) audierunt et statim iterum auolantium in caelum cum suaui modulamine pennarum. sapientes autem, qui illic aderant, dixerunt certe se scire angelorum choros cum Michaele uenisse ac animam sancti pontificis in paradisum deducere. Greg dial III 31 col 345a of Herminigild: coepit in nocturno silentio psalmodiae cantus ad corpus eiusdem regis et martyris audiri, atque ideo ueraciter regis, quia et martyris. Baronius 649 81 the light, the apparition, the psalmody, on the revelation of Gregory's Moralia. cf the illuminated drawing of Edw confessor's death (Lives of Edw conf. ed by H R Luard, in chronicles and me20 morials), where angels receive the spirit as it issues from the mouth. Cuthbert (Beda uita Cuthb c 34 p 112 24 St) saw animam cuiusdam sancti manibus angelicis ad regni caelestis gaudia ferri. Such visions of angels and lights seen from heaven are frequent circumstances in the narratives of the deaths of saints. See the Sermon on the Nativity of 25 Holy Martyrs Aelfric's Homil II 546-548. It is promised to the Virgin Mary (Cursor Mundi IV 1156) that angels with songs shall come to fetch her to heaven. 30 35 Thou shalt be here but dayes thre, 17 EGRESSI DIGNOSCERE p 22 1 19 n. p 97 1 2 uocare uenerunt. VI (p 182 26 S) exierat uidere. LVCEM P 39 1 1 and 23. p 107 1 20. p 108 1 16. p 112 123. p 140 115. I 33 (end) the tomb of a saint revealed by a light. IV 7 Beda uita Cuthb 47 Aedan's death revealed to Cuthbert by a light and by singing angels. Baronius 685 20. MHB 667 in loco uero quo Elfwaldus rex iustus interfectus est, caelitus lux emissa dicitur uideri a plurimis. |