[133] In theory, at least, we know better now.
[134] A.D. 779 to 788.
[135] James ii. 13.
[136] Pet. iv. 17.
[137] He died in 703.
[138] He resigned in 716, and took from the library of Wearmouth the Codex Amiatinus as a present to the Pope. This huge and noble codex is now in the Laurenziana, in Florence. See my Lessons from Early English Church History, pp. 72-75.
[139] See my Theodore and Wilfrith, pp. 106, 124, and for Acca’s Cross, pp. 257-61.
[140] Bishop of Whithern (Candentis-Casae, Ep. 20, usually Candidae Casae), 777-789; of Hexham, 789-797.
[141] Writing to an Englishman, Alcuin gives his Anglian name in its Anglian spelling and without a Latin termination.
[142] See [p. 123]. The full story is given by Simeon of Durham under the year 790, meaning 791: “In the second year of Ethelred (i. e. of his restored sovereignty) Duke Eardulf was captured and taken to Ripon, and was ordered by the said king to be put to death outside the gate of the monastery. The brethren carried the body to the church with Gregorian chants, and placed it in a shed outside the door. He was found after midnight in the church, alive.”