[124] Or, Old Saxons.
[125] St. Guerir's church was at Ham Stoke, in Cornwall.
[126] An interesting account of St. Neot will be found in Gorham's History And Antiquities of Eynesbury and St. Neot's.
[127] Grimbald was provost of St. Omer's.
[128] John had been connected with the monastery of Corbie.
[129] East Dene [or Dean] and West Dene are two villages near Chichester. There are also other villages of the same name near East Bourne.
[130] This expression alludes to the tonsure, which was undergone by those who became clerks. For a description of the ecclesiastical tonsure see Bede's Eccles. Hist. p. 160
[131] The original Latin continues, "Et illa adjuvaretur per rudimenta Sancti Degui in omni causa, tamen pro viribus," which I do not understand, and therefore cannot translate.
[132] A petty prince of South Wales.
[133] Or St. Dewi. Probably by the parish of St. Deguus is meant the diocese of St. David's. Hence it is said, that Alfred gave to Asser the whole parish (omnis parochia) of Exeter.