[10]. Hist. Angl. Sax. i. 378.
[11]. I am not aware of the Picts, Peohtas, having ever been numbered among the Bretwealhas.
[12]. Hist. Eccl. i. 34. “Nemo enim in tribunis, nemo in regibus plures eorum terras, exterminatis vel subiugatis indigenis, aut tributarias genti Anglorum, aut habitabiles fecit.”
[13]. Nearly the only instance recorded of a mixed army, is that of Penda at Winwedfeld; but it does not appear that this consisted of anything more than the Comitatus of various chieftains personally dependent upon, or in alliance with, himself. We do not learn that οἰOswiu’s victory gave him any rights over the freemen in Eastanglia, which could hardly have been wanting had the Eastanglian hereban or fyrd served under Penda.
[14]. Lappenberg seems to connect these ideas together.
[15]. The synods were mostly held at Cealchýð or at Clofeshoas. The first of these places is doubtful: all that can be said with certainty, is, that it was not Challock in Kent, as Ingram supposes: the Saxon name of that place was Cealfloca. I entertain little doubt that Clofeshoas was in the county of Gloucester and hundred of Westminster.
[16]. Hist. Eccl. ii. 5.
[17]. Chron. Sax. an. 591, 597.
[18]. Cod. Dipl. Nos. 1038, 1039, 1041.
[19]. Chron. Sax. an. 827.