[406]. Ibid. No. 903.
[407]. Ibid. No. 906.
[408]. Ibid. Nos. 1323, 1325.
[409]. Ibid. Nos. 731, 732.
[410]. Ibid. No. 827.
[411]. Ibid. No. 929.
[412]. Ibid. Nos. 847, 854.
[413]. Cod. Dipl. No. 1288. This is contrary to the provision of archbishop Ecgberht’s Poenitential, iii. § 8: he says that a priest or deacon ought not to be a geréfa, or a wícnere, or to have any concern with secular business. “Nis nánum mæsse-preóste álýfed ne diacone, æt hí geréfan beón né wícneras, né ymbe náne worldbysgunga ábysgode beón, búton mid ðǽre ðe hig tó getitolode beóð.” Thorpe, ii. 198. Perhaps however Ecgberht’s rule was construed to mean private, not public, geréfan, when in process of time it might become useful to have the assistance of priests learned in the law, as judges; especially as in the tenth century the importance of missionary labours was less strongly felt than in the eighth.
[414]. Cod. Dipl. No. 1258.
[415]. Ibid. No. 1319.