[7] See the Animadversions on Selden’s “History of Tithes,” in 1621, by Dr. R. Tillesley, Archdeacon of Rochester.
[8] Page 34.
[9] “Ancient Facts and Fictions,” Edition 1888, pp. 47, 48. Selden, p. 58.
[10] “Hist. Eccl.” ii. 5: cum consilio sapientium.
[11] Thorpe’s “Ancient Laws,” etc. i. 3.
[12] “Saxons in England,” ii. 205.
[13] Hook’s “Archbishops,” i. 134.
[14] The three bishoprics were thus State creations in the kingdom of Kent, and were then established and endowed by the State, with the approval of the Witenagemót. See Hook, i. 59.
[15] Bede, “E. H.,” lib. i. c. xxvii.
[16] “Endowments and Establishment of the Church of England,” p. 39, ed. 1885. Mr. Dibdin is Chancellor of the Dioceses of Rochester, Exeter, and Durham, and official of two archdeaconries.