[29] St. Peter, it is said, appeared to Laurentius at night, and reproaching him for his cowardice, severely chastised him with a scourge; the marks of which had the effect here mentioned the next day. Bede ii. 6. According to Sprott, St. Laurentius became archbishop of Canterbury, A.D. 610.
[30] St. Augustine’s, Canterbury, completed, according to Sprott, A.D. 663.
[31] Chelles, near Paris.
[32] Theodore, archbishop of Canterbury, was a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, and a prelate of great learning; but it being apprehended by Pope Vitalian that he might rather incline to the doctrines of the Greek Church, Adrian was sent with him, as a kind of superintendent, and was appointed abbat of St. Augustine’s.
[33] See [book ii. chap. 13], “but this and every other,” &c. Some editions omit this passage altogether.
[34] Wansdike, in Wiltshire.
[35] Virgil, Æn. ii. 390.
[36] Bradford on Avon. See Sax. Chron. A.D. 652.
[37] Pen, in Somersetshire.
[38] Malmesbury wrote a History of Glastonbury, which is printed in Gale’s Collection, vol. iii. and by Hearne, in the History of Glastonbury, and from this work he extracts this account. Sharpe gives it [from “But since,” &c. to “character so munificent” in page 28, line 2], in a note as a various reading of one of the MSS. The note occupies the greater part of seven pages from 25 to 31 in Sharpe’s original volume.