[242] St. Martin’s at Tours.
[243] His pupils.
[245] It is a curious coincidence that the ivory comb found in St. Cuthbert’s coffin, provided by Westone after the Norman Conquest, had—as nearly as we can count—sixty teeth, sixteen large and forty-four small. Alcuin’s comb may have had the same double row of teeth, with a knob in the shape of a lion’s head projecting from the ends of the central ivory.
[246] Monumenta Alcuiniana, Wattenbach and Dümmler, p. 63.
[247] Italian Alps, Longmans, 1875, Appendix D, pp. 371-3.
[248] Kemble, Cod. Dipl. ii. 208-62. Coolidge, Swiss Travel, 160. “Perpessus sit gelidis glacierum (and glaciarum) flatibus, et pennino exercitu malignorum spirituum.”
[249] Gesta Pontificum, Rolls series, pp. 25, 26, 265.
[250] See my Lessons from Early English Church History, pp. 45, 46.