[284] Dan. xiv. 35, Vulgate.
[285] Bonefatii. This was, of course, the great English missionary Archbishop of Maintz, martyred at Dorkum in 755.
[286] 1 Cor. xv. 58.
[287] Rom. xii. 2.
[288] Based on 1 Pet. ii. 1.
[289] He was Abbat of Fulda from 780 to 802, when he resigned the office.
[290] This, no doubt, is the origin of the tradition that Alcuin wrote the Office for Trinity Sunday. See pp. 20, 173.
[291] Rom. xiv. 5.
[293] See the list on the next pages.
[294] This would indicate that the aula at which they had met the king and held the council was one of Offa’s outlying manors, and not his central royal residence.
[296] Besides those in the Pope’s list.
[297] Sacerdos. It is uncertain to how late a date sacerdos is to be rendered bishop.
[298] Wattenbach and Dümmler give only the headings of the chapters, as here. The chapters themselves will be found in Haddan and Stubbs, iii. 448-58.
[299] There are many injunctions that priests and others serving at the altar must wear drawers. There is quite a large literature on the subject of these garments (femoralia), in which such of the early fathers as are given to symbolism find symbolic meanings. They were an essential part of the dress of the Levitical priesthood (Exod. xxviii. 42, 43).
[300] Probably referring to the practice of tattooing.
[301] Prudentius (Dipt. i. 3) has “Adam” not “humum”.
[302] This was Tilbert, Bishop of Hexham (Augustald) 781-789. There is no reason of seniority or priority that should make him sign above the Archbishop. If, as is probable, the Council was held at Corbridge, in his diocese, he might sign first as bishop of the place.
[303] Praesul. In the other signatures episcopus is used.
[304] Candens-casa, usually Candida-casa, so named from its being the first church built of white stone in that region.
[305] Myensis. see p. 156. Aldulf was consecrated in 786, the year of this Council, by Eanbald, Tilberht, and Hygbald, at Corbridge. It is on this account that the Germans think the Council was held at Corbridge. Hexham would equally meet the case, and better meets the suggestion of a previous note.
[306] Not as yet identified.
[307] It is rather quaint that Sigha should have chosen placido mente as the phrase to describe his manner of assent to No. 12 above, for two years later he killed King Aelfwald, and he eventually died by his own hand.
[308] Of Ripon, 786-787.
[309] Some read Alquinum here, and make Alcuin one of the two lectores.
[310] The text has two forms of this variously spelled name.
[311] Higbert of Lichfield 779-802.
[312] Lindsey 767-796. The Lindisfaras had nothing to do with Lindisfarne.
[313] Leicester 781-802.
[315] London 794-801.
[316] Kinbert of Winchester 785-801.
[317] Hendred of Dunwich, 781-789.
[318] Esne of Hereford 781-789.
[319] Tolta of Selsey 781-789.
[320] Rochester 785-803.
[321] Sherborn 766-793.
[322] Worcester 781-798.
[323] “Aimoini monachi, qui antea Annonii nomine editus est, Historiae Francorum” Lib. V. Parisiis. 1567.
[324] Omitted in the quotation.