14] HEAVENLY VISITORS. 333 to a little boy who was lying sick and told him that they were about to conduct him to the celestial kingdom. They bade him call Eappa the presbyter and say that the Lord had heard their prayers and accepted their fasting and no more of them should die. The messengers also said 5 that the divine pity was shewn to them through the intercession of Oswald, formerly king of Northumbria, who as on that day had been slain and received into heaven. They also bade that masses should be celebrated in all the oratories of the monastery. The boy described the heavenly visitors as bright and shining and more beautiful than he had IO ever seen. One was shorn like a cleric, the other had a long beard, and they told him that they were Peter and Paul. After search it was found that king Oswald was slain on this day, therefore the boy's story was believed, and on that very day he died, but all the rest recovered. This vision increased the reverence for fasts and in many places king Oswald's 15 day was observed with yearly masses. P 118 2 qvo p 117 1 18. 5 ACCA P 241 13 same words. p 205 19 and 26. p 206 1 4. V 19. 20. 23. h a 15. fifth bp of Hexham (709-732), where he succeeded Wilfrid (v 20. DCB). He and Tatbert required of Eddius (pref) a life 20 of Wilfrid. Eddius 22 end. 54. 9 MORTALITAS P 79 1 4 n. IO PRAEFATVм p 117 1 18. 12 EAPPA P 1151 31. 26 SECVNDA about 8 am. 28 PRINCIPES P 11911 n. APPARERE p 108 1 23. p 109 I 20. p 1121 18. P 119 I HODIERNA DIE P 1101 3. p 112 1 23. c 29 n. So Nursinus the presbyter when at the point of death (Greg dial IV 11) 'bene ueniant 30 domini mei, bene ueniant domini mei: quid ad tantillum seruulum uestrum estis dignati conuenire? uenio, uenio. gratias ago'. when this was repeated, his friends asked to whom he was speaking. he replied in amazement: 'numquid hic conuenisse sanctos apostolos non uidetis? beatum Petrum et Paulum primos apostolorum non aspicitis?' ad 35 quos iterum conuersus dicebat: ‘ecce uenio, ecce uenio', atque inter haec uerba animam reddidit.... quod plerumque contingit iustis, ut in morte sua sanctorum praecedentium uisiones aspiciant, ne ipsam mortis suae poenalem sententiam pertimescant. St Peter appeared in like manner to the nun Galla three days before her death ib 13. 334 COMMEMORATION OF BENEFACTORS. P 119 3 HABES glossary. VIATICO p 139 1 32. p 144 1 29. [IV 8 ALIQVIS quisquamn. so 10 ALICVBI=usquam. "9 15 OSVALDI III I—13. 18 HAC DIE 5 Aug p 35 1 30. Mercians. 5 INFIDELIBVs Penda and his 99 21 CODICIBVS IN QVIBVS DEFVNCTORVM EST ADNOTATA DEPOSITIO P 120 l 11. see liber uitae eccl Dunelm (Surtees soc 1841) con- 10 taining the names of all the benefactors of St Cuthbert's church from its foundation. The original (MS Cotton Dom VII) lay constantly on the altar for more than six centuries and contains a prayer that the benefactors' names may be written in the book of life cf Lingard II 58. 352-7 'Anglo-Saxon calendars'. Rock church of our fathers II 15 339-352. uita Cuthb praef (addressed to bp Eadfrid and the brethren of Lindisfarne) begs them to pray for him living, sed et me defuncto pro redemtione animae meae, quasi familiaris et uernaculi uestri, orare et missas facere et nomen meum inter uestra scribere dignemini. nam et tu, sanctissime antistes, hoc te mihi promisisse iam retines, in 20 cuius etiam testimonium futurae conscriptionis religioso fratri uestro Gudfrido mansionario praecepisti ut in albo uestrae sanctae congregationis meum nunc quoque nomen apponeret. Martene de ant eccl rit 1 145 (ed 1738). DCA 'calendar'. For depositio cf p 158 112. v 8 pr deposita. 11 pr depositis. 25 IN MEMORIAM OSVALDI V 14 sine uiatico salutis obiit et 25 corpus eius in ultimis est monasterii locis humatum, neque aliquis pro eo uel missas facere uel psalmos cantare uel saltem orare praesumebat. Alcuin ep 11 Jaffé ne quaeso obliuiscaris in tuis sanctis orationibus nomen amici tui Albini; sed in aliquo memoriae gazophylacio reconde illud, et profer eo tempore oportuno, quo panem et uinum in substan- 30 tiam corporis et sanguinis Christi consecraueris. P 120 4 ALIQVOS = ullos. 6 ATTONSVS VT CLERICVS St Peter p 90 1 27 and 28 n. II ANNALE P 1191 21 n. 14 DE EODEM SACRIFICIO PARTICVLAM DEFERRI P 144 1 18— 22. Scudamore notitia eucharistica index 'eucharist' ('reservation' of elements allowed in the first prayer book of Edw VI). Lingard I 299. 35 14 15] VICTORIES OF CAEDUALLA. 335 II 42. 43. 422. Rock church of our fathers 1 16. 17. 132. Rheinwald die kirchl Archäologie Berl 1830 cites on the communion of the dying Eus h e VI 44. conc Nic c 13. conc Araus I c 3. stat eccl ant c 76—78. As the administration of wine to the sick might be difficult conc Turon 5 I (Mansi VII 950) requires every presbyter to have the uiaticum in a pyx, and to dip the sacred oblation in wine; but this intinction' is forbidden in conc Bracar III AD 675 C 2. J A Gleich de eucharistia moribundorum et mortuorum (Viteb 1690 4to). ΑΝ active young man of the royal race of the Geuissi named Caedu. alla slew king Aedilualch and wasted his province, but was soon 15 driven out by the king's leaders Bercthun and Andhun. The former of these was afterwards slain by Caedualla, and the province of the South Saxons was held in slavery by him and Ini who reigned after him, so that province had no bishop of their own but were subject to the bishop of the Geuissi. 20 P 120 28 CAEDVALLA son of Cenbyrht (†661), son of Ceadda, son of Cuthwine, son of Ceawlin, son of Cynric, son of Cerdic (see Sax chron 685, and pedigree of kings of Wessex in Lappenberg-Thorpe 1 286). In his banishment Caedualla was befriended by Wilfrid; when he became king of Wessex, he sent for Wilfrid, made him his chief 25 counsellor and endowed him with large estates Eddius 41. Hen Hunt 685. In 688 Caedualla resigned his crown and went to Rome, where he was baptised 10 Apr 689, took the name of Peter, and was buried on the 20th of that month, being then 30 years old more or less (V 7), so that now, in 685, he might well be iuuenis strenuissimus. DCB 'Caed30 walla' (2). 30 AEDILVALCH P 1151 24. PROVINCIAM ILLAM Sussex. P 121 2 REGIS Aediluach. ANDHVNO Aethelhumo Flor Vig in MHB 537. 3 POSTEA A D 686 Caedualla and his brother Mul devastated 35 Kent and Wight Sax chron. 5 INI son of Cenred, son of Ceolwald, son of Cynegils, son of Cuthwine, son of Ceaulin, son of Cynric, son of Cerdic, king of Wessex 336 CAEDUALLA KING OF THE WEST SAXONS. [IV 688-725, when he resigned and went to Rome v 7. Sax chron 688. cf pedigree in Lappenberg-Thorpe I 286. P 121 6 PROVINCIAM ILLAM Sussex. 9 REVOCATO DOMVM VILFRIDO Theodore, after his reconciliation with Wilfrid, wrote to Alfrid king of Northumbria, to the 5 abbess Aelfled and to Ethelred king of the Mercians, to intercede for him Eddius 42. In the 2nd year of his reign (A D 686) Alfrid recalled Wilfrid and restored him first to Hexham (for a year), then to York and Ripon ib 43. cf Beda v 19 p 207 1 19 S. Haddan-Stubbs 111 169—172, who point out that the diocese of York as held by Wilfrid after his 10 return, had been deprived of Lindsey, Abercorn, Lindisfarne, Hexham. IO EPISCOPO GEVISSORVM Haedde bp of Winchester 676-703 P 31 16. p 1131 20. v 18 pr. Sax chron 676 and 703. Haddan-Stubbs III 126. 164. 203 n 21. [XVI] HEN Caedualla obtained the kingdom of the Geuissi, that is the 15 given up to idolatry. He exterminated all the natives and brought in men of his own provinces. He gave the fourth part of the island to bishop Wilfrid, who transferred it to one of his own clergy named 20 Bernuin and appointed as his companion a presbyter named Hiddila. Beda relates how two boys, sons of Aruald king of Vecta, fled on the approach of the enemy into the neighbouring province of the Iutes to a place called Ad Lapidem, but afterwards were betrayed and ordered to be killed. The abbat of the monastery of Hreutford, Cyniberct, begged 25 that he might instruct them first in the Christian faith. Having done this he baptised them and they then gladly underwent temporal death. When Vecta thus became Christian, there was no bishop at first, but afterwards Danihel was appointed bishop, who when Beda wrote was bishop of the West Saxons. Vecta is situated opposite the South 30 Saxons and the Geuissi, separated by a sea three miles in width, in which the two tides of the ocean daily meet. P 121 14 VECTAM C 13. 17 VOTO cf the promise of Edwin that he would become a Christian, if he should recover the throne of his ancestors 11 12 35 NECDVM REGENERATVS he was baptised in Rome a few days before his death p 120 1 28 n. 20 VILFRIDO on Caedualla's gifts to Wilfrid cf Eddius 41 end. 17] DANIEL BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. 337 P 121 23 FAMILIARVM P 94 1 14. cf the endowment of Canterbury and Rochester II 3. VNDE out of which 1200 Wilfrid received (1 18) a fourth part. 26 FILIVS SORORIS the classical term, for which Beda elsewhere 5 uses nepos. 10 15 P 122 4 IVTORVM I 15 de Iutarum origine sunt Cantuarii et Victuarii, hoc est ea gens quae Vectam tenet insulam, et ea quae hodie in prouincia occidentalium Saxonum Iutarum natio nominatur, posita contra ipsam insulam Vectam. 6 AD LAPIDEM Stoneham near Southampton. On the form cf p 59 1 5 n Ad Murum. P 94 1 15 Adbaruæ. p 154 1 20 Adtuifyxdi. h a 12 Ad Villam Sambuce. 9 HREVTFORD Redbridge (Camden 138). In the calendar of Durham William of Redeford was commemorated 31 March (Smith). 22 DANIHELEM bp Winch 705-744; he supplied Beda with information respecting Wessex, Sussex and Wight p 165 17—11. v 18 bis. 23 p 218 1 21 and 31 S. Haddan-Stubbs III 302. 304-6. 337343-9. Jaffé monum Mogunt ind. Under him the West-Saxon diocese was divided, Aldhelm receiving the south-western portion, with his see 20 at Sherborne, in 705, and Sussex, with its see at Selsey, being apportioned in 709 to bp Eadbert... Daniel visited Rome in 721; in 731 he assisted at the consecration of abp Tatwin; in 744 he resigned his see, and in 745 he died. His episcopate, which covers the reign of Ini, was the period of the great development and missionary exertion of the 25 West-Saxon church' (W Stubbs in DCB 'Daniel' no 16). Baronius 719 1 2. 724 5 and 13. 726 49 seq. 54 seq. Pagi 724 2. AT T this time archbishop Theodore summoned a council of priests and doctors that he might enquire into the belief of the churches of the Angles, and finding an agreement of all in the catholic faith he recorded 35 it for the instruction of posterity. This synod was held at Haethfelth, at which the assembled fathers declared their adherence to the decrees of the councils of Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus and Chalcedon, as |