[148] Plegmund is said to have written part of the Saxon Chronicle; Asser was archbishop of St. David’s, and biographer of Alfred; Grimbald, abbat of St. Omers; and John of Corvey, a German Saxon, whom Alfred invited into England.
[149] Asser says he devoted one half of his income “to God;” which part was afterwards subdivided for the poor, for the two monasteries he had founded, for the school he had established, for other monasteries and churches, domestic and foreign.
[150] This proportion was for both teachers and pupils in the school he founded for the young nobility.—Lappenberg, vol. i. p. 340.
[151] Matilda, queen of William the First, was daughter of Baldwin earl of Flanders, the fifth in descent from Ethelswitha. See [note], p. 110.
[152] On its removal called Hyde Abbey.
[153] The popular notion was, that the devil re-animated the corpse, and played a variety of pranks by its agency; and that the only remedy was to dig up and consume the body with fire. See Will. Neubrig v. 22.
[154] Virg. Æneid, x. 641.
[155] By West-Angles he probably intends the people of Essex or East-Saxons. See Florence of Worcester.
[156] Charles the Simple had one son by her, Louis II., surnamed D’Outremer.
[157] Surnamed the Great: father of Hugh Capet: she had no issue by him.