[327] Rolls Ed. p. 163.
[328] Rolls Ed. p. 10.
[329] Rolls Ed. p. 113.
[330] Chron. II. cxxvii.
[331] Thus 869 and 870 are both given as Alfred’s twenty-first year; this throws the Series one wrong up to 876 inclusive. The annal 877, as I have shown, is blank in the genuine text of Asser. Then in 878 not only is this not allowed for, but the number twenty-seventh is repeated from 876. This further increases the error by two, i.e. the total error now amounts to three years; and this error is maintained to the end.
[332] Chronicle, II. xlix, cii-civ, cxvii, 44, 73, 77.
[333] Foundations of England, i. 247.
[334] Bede, I. lvi.
[335] A yet earlier copy of this document is printed in Sweet’s Oldest English Texts, p. 179; another copy occurs in the Cambridge University MS. of the Anglo-Saxon Bede; and a third in a fragment which probably originally belonged to MS. B of the Chronicle; all these MSS. read ‘xxiii.’ with
