[74] The title consists of twenty-four elegiacs, with only ordinary thoughts.
[75] Gesta Regum, i. 3.
[76] The mention of Ascension Day in the account of Bede’s death is in the judgement of some scholars more easily reconciled with the incidence of Ascension Day in the year 742.
[77] The see of Dunwich appears to have been vacant then.
[78] All this tells against the now exploded belief that Theodore established the parochial system. His paroichia was the diocese.
[79] The earliest pieces of English now extant in the original form are the inscriptions in Anglian runes on the cross erected in 670 in the churchyard of Bewcastle, in memory of the sub-king Alchfrith (see [p. 9]). The main inscription runs thus: + This sigbecn thun setton hwaetred wothgar olwfwolthu aft alkfrithu ean küning eac oswiung + gebid heo sinna sowhula. + This token of victory Hwaetred Wothgar Olwfwolthu caused make in memory of Alcfrith once king and son of Oswy. + Pray for the high sin of his soul. See also [p. 296].
[81] In ordinatione.
[82] Constituant.