[11] Ps. lxxvii. 11.
[12] The relative numbers of these three “sides” of the School of York may possibly be indicated by the quidam, alii, nonnulli, of the author.
[13] Biscop.
[14] After a parenthetical paragraph the writer continues, “Cuius iam, ut dictum est, sequens Hechbertus vestigia.”
[15] Gregory, it must be supposed. If one of the Apostles of the Lord had been meant, much more honorific words would have been used.
[16] Used antiphrastically for malediction: see Job i. 5.
[17] Deut. xxxii. 11.
[18] Chapter viii of the Rule of St. Benedict directs that a monk shall not conceal from his abbat evil thoughts which come into his heart.
[19] John xiii. 25 to xviii. 1 inclusive.
[20] Sigulf, as we have seen, told the writer the facts of Alcuin’s life which he recorded.