[416] Canon. sub Edgaro—Mod. imponend. Pœnitent. c. 28, 29 (Thorpe, II. 273).
[417] Oratio Edgari (Spelman. I. 476).
[418] Spelman. I. 479.
[419] Guillel. Malmesbur. Lib. II. c. 8.
[420] Florent. Wigorn. ann. 975.—Matt. Westmonast. Lib. III. c. 18.—Chron. Winton. (Spelman. I. 490-2).
[421] Matt. Westmonast. Lib. III. c. 18. Henry of Huntingdon, however (Lib. V. ann. 978), who, as a secular priest and the son of a priest, did not look upon the labors of St. Dunstan with much favor, insinuates that the accident was intended to foreshow that the assembled wisdom and power of England were about to fall similarly from the grace of God.
[422] Haddan & Stubbs I. 286.
[423] Privileg. Reg. Ethelredi (Spelman. I. 504).
[424] Ælfrici Canon. c. i.-viii. (Thorpe, II. 345). “Quasi periculosum non esset sacerdotem vivere more conjugati. Sed dicetis eum haud posse carere muliebribus servitiis. Respondeo, quonam pacto vitam transegerunt sancti olim viri absque femina vel uxore,” &c. (Spelman I. 573).—Spelman’s MS. was defective; that in Thorpe is perfect.
[425] Ælfric’s Pastoral Epistle, c. 32, 33 (Thorpe, II. 377).