254 OTHER VISIONS OF ANGELS. [III litany (Thorpe II 332) into which the whole story of Furseus is incorporated he is called 'sum Scyttisc preost' Scottish of course meaning Irish. See p 191 11 n. P 52 24 FVRSEVS founder of Lagni, brother of saints Foillan and Ultan. Iacobus a Voragine legenda aurea 144139 pp 639-644 5 Grässe. Stevenson comparing the life (older than Beda) in AA SS 16 Jan (11 36 cf Mabillon saec II Bened) dates his arrival in England 633 (637 Ussher) his departure for France 648 (640 U), his death at Mazières in Poitou 650. Pagi 650 5. 644 3-5. P 53 2 VIRTVTIS ET SERMONIS 1 22. p 27 1 2 n. 10 6 VISIONE P 51 5. IV 25. V 12-14. 19 p 208 S vision of St Michael seen by Wilfrid. uita Cuthb 3 an angel mounted. See B Hauréau, les récits d'apparitions dans les sermons du moyen âge in mém de l'inst 1876. XXVIII (2) 239–264. Aelfric gives the particulars of this first rapture thus. 'Two angels took his soul and flying with white 15 wings bare him between them. A third angel flew before him armed with a white shield and a shining sword. The three angels were shining with like brightness, and conveyed to the soul wondrous pleasure by the sound of their wings and greatly gladdened it with the melody of their song.' 18. Р 9 VIGILATE Matth xxiv 42. 20 II LOCVM MONASTERII endowments. 1 17. p 231 16. p 3111.p63 66 1 2 and 27. p 67 1 29. p 70 1 22—28. p 78 1 26. 1 33. II 3. h a 4 end. 6 p 295 1 47 S. 12 end. epist ad Ecgb 5 (end) monastic endowments to be employed for the foundation of bishoprics. conc Aurel V (549) 25 c 19. Lingard I 193. II 241. 99 15 CNOBHERESBVRG Burgh castle in Suffolk, at the junction of the Yare and Waveney (Stevenson). 26 LIBELLVS DE VITA EIVS P 54 1 10. in AA SS 1 c. Stevenson 'another in Bodl ms Rawl 505 f 174, appears from internal evidence to 30 have been written a D 655.' 28 CORPORE EXVTVS the story in Aelfric makes the corpsebearers stand round the body ready to perform their office and it was in their presence that the dead man shewed signs of requickening. 31 IBVNT SANCTI This verse is the song of a troop of holy spirits 35 which in a vision, somewhat like this of Furseus, appeared to St Guthlac. (Goodwin. St Guthlac c 5). The saint, however, was conveyed through the air by evil spirits with creaking wings and iron whips to beat him with; he beheld the north part of heaven surrounded by clouds of intense 19] LESSONS FROM THE SPIRIT-WORLD. 255 5 darkness, and was carried by the spirits to the door of hell. He is rescued from the evil angels by his patron St Bartholomew. Guthlac is carried back to earth and in the mid height of air there came towards him a troop of holy spirits and cheered him with their song. P 53 32 REDVCTVS IN CORPORE P 56 1 4. p 69 1 3. p 93 1 19. I 30 (Gregory's letter) p 71 1 14 S fana.. necesse est ut a cultu daemonum in obsequio ueri dei debeant commutari. ib 1 22 ad laudem dei in esu suo animalia occidant. Gregory's epitaph v 7 p 188 1 16 albatum uexit in arce poli. v. 10 p 193 16 quos interemptos in Rheno pro10 iecerunt (Hussey). D Rock church of our fathers I 32-34 has some exx from liturgies. P 54 2 MALIGNORVM SPIRITVVM in the visions of a rediuiuus reported by abbess Hildelid to Boniface, and by him (ep 10 Jaffé) to Eadburga abbess of Thanet, the good spirits strove with the evil for the 15 possession of him; the evil exclaiming p 55 ego sum cupiditas tua ...; ego sum uana gloria...; ego sum mendacium etc. 20 7 VERBA SVPERFLVA ibid ego sum otiosum uerbum. The cursed spirits threaten St Guthlac saying "Power is given us to thrust thee into the torments of this abyss" Goodwin p 39. COGITATIONES Bonif ibid ego uaga cogitatio et inutilis cura, qua te supra modum siue in ecclesia siue extra ecclesiam occupabas. 8 IN LIBRO DESCRIPTAS p 5 1 13-15. 10 DIXI P 53 1 26 n. II PROFECTVS SPIRITALIS for an account of a similar vision 25 revealed to Adamnan see Reeves' Life of St Columba introd clvii; there it is said "Adamnan desired to remain in the happy region, but heard the voice of his guardian angel commanding his soul to be replaced in the same body from which it had passed, and that it should relate in the conventions of the laity and clergy the rewards of heaven and the pains 30 of hell such as the conducting angel had revealed to him." 21 ABRENVNTIARE glossary. Chrys ad illuminandos catech 2 4 ἀποτάσσομαί σοι σατανᾶ καὶ τῇ πομπῇ σου καὶ τῇ λατρείᾳ σου. P 55 10 ACCVSATIONES DEFENSIONES V 13. 19 23 INCENDERVNT a favorite legend is thus given by Eudes (Odo) 35 of Shirton (ms lat Par n 2593 f 109 cited by Hauréau p 242): Master Serlo exacted a promise from a sick pupil of his that after death he would report to him his state. Accordingly some days after death he appeared to him in a parchment cape, written over within and without with sophisms. The master asking who he was, he replied: 'I am he 258 ROIS FAINÉANTS. [III were brought to him, but the wheat did not grow barley, sown at the wrong time, yielded a large crop, which he saved from the birds by a remonstrance: 'Why do you touch what you did not sow? Do you think you have more need than I? If you have received licence from God, do His will; if not, begone, nor injure again what is 5 not yours.' cf Greg dial 1 4 col 169 the abbat Equitius mowing. II 32 Benedict employed in field labour. Boniface (ep 64 Jaffé) writes to monks Styrme in coquina sit. Bernhardus operarius sit et aedificet domunculas nostras, ubi opus sit. Willibald uita Bonif 2 (p 435 end). regula Bened 48. Martene ant eccl rit IV 23. P 57 6 GENTILIVM p 52 15. Pagi 644 6—8. 9 HLODVIO Clovis (Chlodowig, Lewis) II was 4 years old at the death of his father Dagobert in Jan 638 and died about 656, after two years of lunacy, the first of the rois fainéants. ERCVNVALDO succeeded Aega as mayor of the palace of Neustria 640 and died 660 Aimo Floriac IV 37 in Bouquet rer Gall script III 136. Mabillon ann Bened XIII 26 (Stevenson). cf Hoefer biogr génér under Erchinoald. ΤΟ 15 IO LATINEACO Lagny on the Marne Mabilion ann Ben XIII 20 26. XIV I 2. Stevenson adds Gall Chr VII 490. 14 PERRONA Péronne on the Somme, 21 m SW of Cambrai. 17 INLESVM P 291 27. p 35 1 12. p 1581 14 n. p 184 1 10. 25 18 DOMVNCVLA P 99 1 1. On shrines see Rock church of our fathers III 352-423. This shrine was made by Eligius bp of Noyon with his own hands Mabillon ann Bened XIV 1. 21 TRANSLATVм 9 Febr 654 a Sunday (the stated day for translations) Pagi 644 5. On translations see p 49 1 15. p 64 1 24. 30 ha 14. Rock church of our fathers III 482-493. AA SS index CORPORIS his relics were pre served in St Fursey's collegiate church at Péronne, a bone of his head with his stole and chasuble at Lagny Mabillon 1 c. 20] NATIVE BISHOPS OF BRITAIN. 259 XX WH HEN Felix bishop of the East Angles died he was succeeded by Thomas his deacon, and he after five years by Berctgilsus called also Boniface. Honorius was followed in the episcopate of 5 Canterbury by Deusdedit the sixth archbishop. He held the see more than nine years, having been consecrated by Ithamar bishop of Rochester, and he himself consecrated Damian to succeed Ithamar in that bishopric. P 57 28 DEFVNCTO FELICE P 51 1 28. AA SS Mar 1 779. Pagi 10 646 5 (cf 627 25) cites contin Ingulfi in Gale i 109, who places the death of Felix 646. Others (taking the 17 years of his episcopate as complete) give 8 Mar 647 as the day of death. 29 POST X ET VII ANNOS ACCEPTI EPISCOPATVS p 104 1 26. V 19 Vilfrid post xl et v annos accepti episcopatus diem clausit 15 extremum. uita Cuthb 42 pr transactis sepulturae eius annis undecim, ie 11 years after his burial. 30 THOMAM Flor Vig places his consecration A D 647. P 58 I GYRVIORVM distinguished from the East Angles IV 19. Peterborough lay in their country Flor Vig in MHB 535d, which in20 cluded (Camden) Cambs, Hunts, Northants, Linc. 2 SVBTRACTO AD 652. BERCTGILSVM COGNOMINE BONIFATIVM 18 n. p 42 1 15 n. 99 5 PRIDIE KAL OCT 30 Sept 653. see AA SS under the day. 25 Cantuaria. 8 DEVSDEDIT the first English abp. Stevenson: 'before his consecration his name was Frithona (life by Gotscelin of Canterbury in ms Cott Vesp B xx 13. Elmham p 192).' DCB 821. 9 ITHAMAR bp of Rochester AA SS June 11 294. 30 10 DIE SEPTIMO KAL APR 26 Mar 655 a Thursday cena domini chr Sax 655. Pagi 664 10 shews that Beda reckons the 9y 7m 2d not from consecration, but election, for Deusdedit died (IV 1) 14 July 664, which will make the day of his election 12 Dec 654. So the episcopate of Theodore is dated not from consecration, but from his arrival in his 35 diocese. K 13 DAMIANVM after his death the see was long vacant IV 2 end. Stubbs dates his consecration 655 and his death 664. On what authority? The Saxon version writes the name Domianum. It is worth notice as 260 CONVERSION OF THE MIDDLE ANGLES. [III marking the great spread of Christianity that the four bishops whose consecration is recorded in this chapter were all of native origin. Ithamar the first English bishop had only been consecrated eleven years before 644 A D. XXI 5 AT T this time the Midland Angles were converted to Christianity. Their king was now Peada, the son of Penda, and he was desirous of marrying Alchfleda a daughter of king Osuiu, but that monarch insisted that he and his people should first become Christians. After hearing the word of truth and professing his faith Peada was baptised 10 by bishop Finan in the town of Ad murum. He took with him into his kingdom four presbyters to instruct his people and their preaching was most successful. King Penda himself did not forbid the preaching of Christianity, but reproached those who did not obey the God in whom they professed to believe. Penda lived two years after the above named 15 events. After his death one of the four presbyters Diuma by name, a Scot, was made bishop of the middle Angles and of the Mercians. Diuma died shortly after and was succeeded by Ceollach, also a Scot, and when he had retired to Hii, Trumheri an Angle became bishop. This was in the time of king Wulfhere. P 58 16 HIS TEMPORIBVS P 59 1 23 two years before Penda's death, ie before 655. Chron Sax and Flor Vig also place the conversion of the Middle Angles or Middle Saxons AD 653. 21 ALCHFLEDAM p 681 11. Ealhflæde, Saxon version. See Acta SS Febr II 178. 22 FIDEM the French princess Bertha stipulated for the free exercise of her religion before she married Ethelbert I 25. Ethelbert's daughter Ethelberga or Tata was given to Edwin on the same terms II 9. Thus the conversion of three kingdoms was in part due to Christian queens. 12. 25 INMORTALITATIS cf p 86 1 10. 28 ALCHFRIDO DCB 71 72. A patron of Wilfrid Eddius 7-10. 'He must not be confounded with Aldfrith, another son of Oswiu, who became king of Northumbria in 685, who was an enemy of Wilfrid, and an upholder of the Irish learning' (W Stubbs). P 59 5 AD MVRVM 1 11 Ad Caprae Caput. p 21 1 15 n. Sigberct king of Essex was baptized by Finan at the same place p 61 1 2 (the 20 25 30 35 |