[291] Rom. xiv. 5.
[292] It will be observed that no mention is made of a king of Kent. See [p. 91].
[293] See the list on the next pages.
[294] This would indicate that the aula at which they had met the king and held the council was one of Offa’s outlying manors, and not his central royal residence.
[295] Supposed, on slight reasoning, to have been held at Corbridge, see [p. 216].
[296] Besides those in the Pope’s list.
[297] Sacerdos. It is uncertain to how late a date sacerdos is to be rendered bishop.
[298] Wattenbach and Dümmler give only the headings of the chapters, as here. The chapters themselves will be found in Haddan and Stubbs, iii. 448-58.
[299] There are many injunctions that priests and others serving at the altar must wear drawers. There is quite a large literature on the subject of these garments (femoralia), in which such of the early fathers as are given to symbolism find symbolic meanings. They were an essential part of the dress of the Levitical priesthood (Exod. xxviii. 42, 43).
[300] Probably referring to the practice of tattooing.