[106]. Ibid., 1 Rich. II, 1378, and Reg. Brantyngham, p. 387.
[107]. Pat. R., 3 Edw. VI, 1549.
[108]. Hermit (Gr. Eremites, L. Heremita), one who lives in the desert; Anchorite (Gr. Anachoretes, L. Anchorita), one withdrawn from the world; Monk (Gr. Monachos, L. Monachus), one who dwells alone. The difference between a hermit and an anchorite was that the former was free to move from place to place, the latter was confined. The monk who had at first been a solitary soon became a member of an ordered and celibate community.
It is curious to notice that the impulse which created the hermit produced the monastery, and that, at a later date, the monastery incidentally produced the hermit.
[109]. Register Stafford, pp. 25, 251, 294.
[110]. Ibid., p. 391.
[111]. Ibid., pp. 25, 294.
[112]. Archæologia, LIX (2), 281 et seq.
[113]. Cott. MS. Vesp. A. XIV.
[114]. The name survived until the Cornish language was obsolete. Boson (1702) uses it.