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And as the members feel a concern for each other, and when even one rejoices they rejoice with it, or if even one suffer all the other members sympathize with it, we again earnestly and specially commend him to your Royal Highness and to your most provident goodness, that he may be always permitted, with unfettered authority, without any gainsaying, to teach and to carry into effect whatever he may discover to be fit and useful for the honor of the Church and the instruction of your people, according to the authority of the canons and the custom of our Church, lest, haply--which God forbid!--any one, under the instigation of the devil, being moved by the impulse of spite and malevolence, should excite controversy or raise sedition against him. But should this happen, it will be your duty then to make special provision against this, and by all means to discourage by your royal censure all such persons, if they should chance to show themselves, and check barbaric rudeness by the curb of your authority; and it will be his duty always to consult for the salvation of the people committed to his pastoral skill, and rather to draw all men after him by love than to drive them by fear.
May you, most illustrious, most religious, and most invincible king, ever rejoice and flourish in Christ the Lord of lords.
FOOTNOTES
Unidentified.
Possibly Wigborough, in the parish of South Petherton in Somersetshire .
Minster in Sheppey, founded by St. Sexburh in the seventh century; it disappeared during the Danish ravages .
Stevenson is inclined to reject this customary identification with Oakley, in Surrey.
Thanet.
Charles the Bald.
Original.
Comprising Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall.
Chiefly original.
Prudentius of Troyes , says of Bishop Hincmar: 'Eam ... reginae nomine insignit, quod sibi suaeque genti eatenus fuerat insuetum.'
Original.
Offa's Dike; it extended from the mouth of the Dee to that of the Severn.
Original.
Charlemagne.
Mostly original.
In Alfred's will he refers to this as 'A?ulfes cinges yrfegewrit' .
That is, for the good of his soul.
A mancus was thirty pence, one-eighth of a pound.
Original.
This last statement is incorrect.
Probably meaning the mouths of the Rhine .
Original.
Original. Stevenson would refer this event to a date earlier than 855.
From Florence of Worcester.
Original.
Cf. chap. 88.
See Alfred's own statement in Appendix I, p. 69.
Original.
Alfred says : 'Thanks be to Almighty God that we have any teachers among us now.' In this same Preface he mentions, among those who aided him in the translation, Archbishop Plegmund, Bishop Asser, our author, and the two priests Grimbold and John. Cf. chaps. 77, 78, 79, 81, 88, and Appendix I, p. 71.
Stevenson brackets this clause.
This clause must refer to the first line of the chapter, as there is no previous mention of the Northumbrians.
Original.
William of Malmesbury calls her AEthelswith.
Of the Gaini nothing is known.
Here and elsewhere in the text often spelled AEthered.
In Norfolk.
Five and one-half miles southwest of Reading.
Added from Florence of Worcester by Stevenson.
The Berkshire Downs .
Stevenson is convinced that AEscesdun, though interpreted as 'mons fraxini,' cannot mean 'the hill of the ash,' but that Ash is here a man's name.
All original except final clause.
Supplied by Stevenson from Florence of Worcester.
Mostly original.
Probably Reading.
In Hampshire.
In Dorsetshire.
A tributary of the Nadder, which it joins near Wilton.
In Derbyshire.
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