[11] The three last-mentioned works are printed, with a translation, in the 'Ancient Laws and Institutes of England.' It appears from a note at the end of Matthew in the C.C.C.C. MS. of the Saxon Gospels, that an Ælfric was either the translator or copier of the Gospel of St. Matthew, if not of the four Gospels. See Notes to my edition of the Anglo-Saxon Gospels.

[12] Elfrici Homiliæ, edit. El. Elstob. (fol. Oxon. 1715.) Of this first attempt only thirty-six pages were printed. Her second attempt was under the title, "The English-Saxon Homilies of Ælfric, Archb. of Cant., who flourished in the latter end of the tenth century and the beginning of the eleventh. Being a course of Sermons collected out of the writings of the ancient Latin Fathers, containing the Doctrines, etc. of the Church of England before the Norman Conquest, etc. etc. Now first printed, and translated into the language of the present times by Eliz. Elstob. fol. Oxon. 1715." Of this only two leaves were printed. A copy of both is in the Brit. Mus. See Biogr. Brit. Lit. p. 493. Mrs. Elstob also published Ælfric's Homily on the birth-day of St. Gregory, with a translation. 8vo. 1709. Reprinted with some account of Mrs. Elstob in 1839.

[13] De Gestis Pontificum Anglorum, lib. iii.

[14] Fl. Wigorn. Chron. ad a. 1040.

[15] Ad ann. 1046.

[16] R. Wendover, t. i. p. 478.

[17] The handwriting, though very nearly alike, is not the same in the two parts of the MS.; they also occasionally differ in orthography, 'middangeard,' for instance, in the first part being in the second constantly written 'middaneard.'

[18] MS. Reg. 7. c. xii.

SERMONUM RUBRICÆ QUI IN HOC VOLUMINE CONTINENTUR.

CONTENTS.

Page
Præfatio [1]
Præfatio, Saxonice [2]
I. De Initio Creaturæ [8]
II. De Natale Domini [28]
III. Passio Beati Stephani Protomartyris [44]
IV. Assumptio S. Johannis Apostoli [58]
V. Natale Innocentium Infantum [76]
VI. Octabas et Circumcisio Domini [90]
VII. Epiphania Domini [104]
VIII. Dom. III. post Epiphania Domini [120]
IX. In Purificatione S. Mariæ [134]
X. Dominica in Quinquagesima [152]
XI. Dominica Prima in Quadragesima [166]
XII. Dominica in Media Quadragesima [180]
XIII. Annunciatio S. Mariæ [192]
XIV. In Dominica Palmarum [206]
XV. Dominica S. Pascæ [220]
XVI. Dominica Prima post Pasca [230]
XVII. Dominica Secunda post Pasca [238]
XVIII. In Litania Majore [244]
XIX. De Dominica Oratione [258]
XX. De Fide Catholica [274]
XXI. In Ascensione Domini [294]
XXII. In Die Sancto Pentecostes [310]
XXIII. Dominica Secunda post Pentecosten [328]
XXIV. Dominica Quarta post Pentecosten [338]
XXV. Nativitas S. Johannis Baptistæ [350]
XXVI. Passio Apostolorum Petri et Pauli [364]
XXVII. Natale S. Pauli Apostoli [384]
XXVIII. Dominica XI. post Pentecosten [402]
XXIX. Passio Beati Laurentii Martyris [416]
XXX. De Assumptione Beatæ Mariæ [436]
XXXI. Passio S. Bartholomæi Apostoli [454]
XXXII. Decollatio S. Johannis Baptistæ [476]
XXXIII. Dominica XVII. post Pentecosten [490]
XXXIV. Dedicatio Ecclesiæ S. Michaelis [502]
XXXV. Dominica XXI. post Pentecosten [520]
XXXVI. Natale Omnium Sanctorum [538]
XXXVII. Natale S. Clementis Martyris [556]
XXXVIII. Natale S. Andreæ Apostoli [576]
XXXIX. Dominica Prima in Adventum Domini [600]
XL. Dominica II. in Adventum Domini [608]
Notes [621]
Page
Præfatio [1]
Preface [3]
I. On the Beginning of Creation [9]
II. On the Nativity of our Lord [29]
III. The Passion of the Blessed Stephen Protomartyr [45]
IV. The Assumption of St. John the Apostle [59]
V. The Nativity of the Innocents [77]
VI. The Octaves and Circumcision of our Lord [91]
VII. The Epiphany of the Lord [105]
VIII. The Third Sunday after the Lord's Epiphany [121]
IX. On the Purification of St. Mary [135]
X. Shrove Sunday [153]
XI. The First Sunday in Lent [167]
XII. Midlent Sunday [181]
XIII. The Annunciation of St. Mary [193]
XIV. For Palm Sunday [207]
XV. Easter Sunday [221]
XVI. The First Sunday after Easter [231]
XVII. The Second Sunday after Easter [239]
XVIII. On the Greater Litany [245]
XIX. On the Lord's Prayer [259]
XX. Of the Catholic Faith [275]
XXI. On the Lord's Ascension [295]
XXII. On the Holy Day of Pentecost [311]
XXIII. The Second Sunday after Pentecost [329]
XXIV. The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost [339]
XXV. The Nativity of St. John the Baptist [351]
XXVI. The Passion of the Apostles Peter and Paul [365]
XXVII. The Nativity of St. Paul the Apostle [385]
XXVIII. The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost [403]
XXIX. The Passion of the Blessed Martyr Lawrence [417]
XXX. On the Assumption of the Blessed Mary [437]
XXXI. The Passion of St. Bartholomew the Apostle [455]
XXXII. The Decollation of St. John the Baptist [477]
XXXIII. The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost [491]
XXXIV. Dedication of the Church of St. Michael the Archangel [503]
XXXV. The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost [521]
XXXVI. The Nativity of All Saints [539]
XXXVII. The Nativity of St. Clement the Martyr [557]
XXXVIII. The Nativity of St. Andrew the Apostle [577]
XXXIX. The First Sunday in the Lord's Advent [601]
XL. The Second Sunday in the Lord's Advent [609]
Notes [621]