[188] See Appendix I, p. 69. In Alfred’s will he gives Werfrith (Wærferth) a hundred marks.
[189] See Appendix I, p. 71.
[190] Perhaps Bishop of Ramsbury (909 A.D.). The later MSS. of the Chronicle say, under the year 883: ‘And in the same year Sighelm and Æthelstan took to Rome the alms that King Alfred sent, and also to India to St. Thomas’ and St. Bartholomew’s.’
[191] Or, ‘chaplains.’ See p. 61, note 6.
[192] Original.
[193] Probably from the monastery of St. Bertin, at St. Omer (Pas-de-Calais). See Appendix I, p. 71, and Appendix II, pp. 75 ff.
[194] Cf. chap. 94, and Appendix I, p. 71.
[195] Original.
[196] Perhaps Dean, near Eastbourne, in Sussex.
[197] Five miles southwest of Chepstow. ‘There was an abbey there, where a traveling ecclesiastic would be likely to stay, and it was on the great Roman road to South Wales, by which a traveler from Wessex to St. Davids would proceed’ (Stevenson).