The Three Choirs: A Handbook to the Cathedrals of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester / A Complete Description of the Buildings, a History of Each Diocese and Biographical Notices of the Bishops

by R. J. King

[98] Bede, Hist. Eccles., 1. iv. c. 23.

[99] Archbishop Theodore died in 690. The see of Canterbury remained vacant for two years after his death.

[100] Bede ut sup.

[101] Raine’s Lives of the Archbishops of York, p. 123.

[102] Lingard’s Anglo-Saxon Church, ii. 294, quoted and accepted by Kemble.

[103] Lingard, ut sup. On the whole question of the dispute between the secular and regular clergy, see the excellent chapter on “The Clergy and Monks” in Kemble’s “Saxons in England,” vol. ii.

[104] Dr. Hook, Life and Times of Wulfstan; Archæological Journal, vol. xx.

[105] Raine’s Archbishops of York, p. 150.

[106] “Qui non ita hebes in literis ut putabatur, cætera sciebat, præter fabulas poetarum, et tortiles syllogismos dialecticorum, quæ nec nosset, nec nosse dignaretur.”—W. Malmes., De Gest. Pontif., l. iv.

[107] “Nusquam enim in villis suis aulas, nusquam triclinia fecit. Nimirum qui non solum in istis forensibus, sed etiam in Ecclesiis operosâ gravaretur architecturâ. Magis enim deputabat talia humanæ pompæ et jactantiæ quam divinæ voluntati et gratiæ.”—W. Malmes., Vita S. Wulfstan., l. iii. cap. 10.