and present no very
exalted idea of their learning.[152]

FOOTNOTES:

[88] Bede, iv. cap. ii.

[89] He died in 690, and was succeeded by Bertwold, Abbot of
Reculver, _Saxon Chronicle, Ingram_, p. 57. Bede speaks of Bertwold
as "well learned in Scripture and Ecclesiastical
Literature."--_Eccl. Hist._ b. v. c. viii.

[90] Preambulation of Kent, 4to. 1576, p. 233. Parker's Ant. Brit.
p. 80.

[91] He was consecrated on the 10th of June, 731, Bede, v. c. xxiii.

[92] M.S. Reg. 12, c. xxiii. I know of no other copy. Leland says
that he saw a copy at Glastonbury.

[93] Bede's Eccl. Hist. Prologue.

[94] Pitseus Angliae Scrip. 1619, p. 141. Dart's Hist. Canterbury, p.
102.

[95] Cottonian MS. Cleopatra, B. xiii. fo. 70.

[96] W. Malm, de Vita, Dunst. ap. Leland, Script. tom. 1. p. 162.
Cotton. MS. Fanstin, B. 13.

[97] Strutt's Saxon. Antiq. vol. 1, p. 105, plate xviii. See also
Hicke's Saxon Grammar, p. 104.

[98] MS. Cotton., Cleop. b. xiii. fo. 69. Mabd. Acta Sancto. vii.
663.

[99] Saxon Chron. by Ingram, 171.

[100] Landsdowne MS. in Brit. Mus. 373, vol. iv.

[101] Landsdowne MS. in Brit. Mus. 373, vol. iv.

[102] Can. 21, p. 577, vol. i.

[103] Lisle's Divers Ancient Monuments in the Saxon Tongue, 4to.
Lond. 1638, p. 43.

[104] MS. Cottonian Claudius, b. vi. p. 103; Dart's Hist. of Cant.
p. 112.; Dugdale's Monast., vol. i. p. 517.

[105] There was an old saying, and a true one, prevalent in those
days, that a monastery without a library was like a castle without
an armory, _Clastrum sine armario, quasi castrum sine armamentario_.
See letter of Gaufredi of St. Barbary to Peter Mangot, _Martene
Thes. Nov. Anecd._, tom. i. col. 511.

[106] Mabillon, Act. S., tom. ix. p. 659.

[107] Ep. i. ad Papae Alex.

[108] Vita Lanfr., c. vi. "_Effulsit eo majistro, obedientia coactu,
philosophicarum ac divinarum litterarum bibliotheca, etc._" Opera p.
8. Edit. folio, 1648.

[109] "Et quia scripturae scriptorum vitio erant ninium corruptae,
omnes tam Veteris, quam Novi Testamenti libros; necnon etiam scriptae
sanctorum patrum secundum orthodoxam fidem studuit corrigere." Vita
Lanfr. cap. 15, ap. Opera, p. 15.

[110] Hist. Litt. de la France, vol. vii. p. 117.

[111] _Ibid._ "Il rendit de meme service a trois ecrits de S.
Ambrose l'Hexameron, l'apologie de David et le traite des
Sa