Hardy, Th. D., Descriptive Catalogue of Materials, vol. 1, pp. 524 ff.
332
A. SS. Boll., St Frideswida, Oct. 19; Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Christ Church,’ vol. 2, p. 134.
333
Dictionary of National Biography, Frideswide.
334
Stanton, R., Menology of England and Wales, 1887, p. 137: ‘we have no records of Osburg till 1410.’
335
Ibid., p. 310: ‘there is much obscurity in the history of St Modwenna. It seems that she must be distinguished from one or perhaps two other Irish saints…’ Also Livien, E., ‘On early religious houses in Staffordshire’ in Journal of the British Archaeol. Association, vol. 29, p. 333; Hardy, Th. D., Descriptive Catalogue of Materials, pp. 94 ff.
336
Stanton, R., Menology of England and Wales, 1887, p. 328.
337
Bede, Eccles. Hist., bk 4, chs. 7-10.
338
Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Barking,’ vol. 1, p. 436.
339
A. SS. Boll., St Ethelburga, Oct. 11; Stanton, R., Menology of England and Wales, p. 485.
340
Stanton, R., Menology, calls her Theorigitha but says, p. 36, that she has no day.
341
A. SS. Boll., St Hildelitha, March 24.
342
Bede, Eccles. Hist., bk 5, ch. 18.
343
Capgrave, T., Catalogus SS. Angliae, 1516, fol. 10, b.
344
Monumenta Moguntina, edit. Jaffé, Epist. nr 2, written between 675 and 705; Giles (Aldhelm, Opera Omnia, 1844, p. 90) calls her Osgith, a name which occurs several times in the Durham ‘Liber Vitae.’
345
Aldhelm, Opera, edit. Giles, 1844, p. 103.
346
Ibid., p. 115, De Basilica, etc.
347
Ibid., p. 135, De Laudibus Virginum (it is not known over which house Maxima presided); p. 203, De octo Principalibus Vitiis.
348
Ibid., p. 1, De Laudibus Virginitatis (chapter references in the text are to this edition).
349
Mediaeval exegesis interpreted in these four ways, comp. Cassian Erem., De Spiritu Sc., c. 8.
350
I take ‘crustu’ to go with ‘crusta,’ comp. Ducange.
351
Monumenta Moguntina, edit. Jaffé, Epist. nr 70.
352
Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Sherbourne,’ vol. 1, p. 331, footnote K.
353
Will. of Malmesbury, History, c. 31.
354
Dict. of Nat. Biography, ‘Aldhelm.’
355
Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Wimbourne,’ vol. 2, p. 88.
356
A. SS. Boll., St Cuthberga, Aug. 31.
357
Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Wimbourne,’ vol. 2, p. 88.
358
Opera edit. Giles, 1844, p. 216; Dict. of Nat. Biog., ‘Aldfrith,’ he is sometimes called Alfred.
359
Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Wimbourne,’ vol. 2, p. 89, nr 2.
360
Brit. Mus. MSS. Lansdowne, 436 f., 38 b.
361
Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Tetbury,’ vol. 6, p. 1619.
362
A. SS. Boll., St Lioba, Sept. 28, c. 2.
363
Arndt, W., Introd. to translation into German (in Pertz, Geschichtsschreiber der deutschen Vorzeit, Jahrhundert 8, Band 2), p. xix.
364
Epist. nr 12. The only edition of the letters of Boniface which attempts chronological order is that of Jaffé, Ph., Monumenta Moguntina, 1866, the numeration of which I have followed. Additional remarks on the dates of some of the letters are contained in Hahn, H., Bonifaz und Lull, ihre angelsächsischen Correspondenten, 1883.
365
Willibaldus presb., Vita Bonifacii, edit. Jaffé, Ph., Monumenta Moguntina, 1866, pp. 422-506, c. 2.
366
Whether Eadburg of Thanet is identical with St Eadburga buried at Liming (comp. p. 84), is uncertain.
367
Epist. nr 10.
368
Epist. nr 112.
369
Epist. nr 32, written 735 (Jaffé); after 732 (Hahn).
370
Epist. nr 75.
371
Epist. nr 31.
372
Epist. nr 62.
373
Epist. nr 76.
374
Epist. nr 22, written 722 (Jaffé).
375
Epist. nr 39.
376
Epist. nr 46.
377
Epist. nr 72, 2 Cor. vii. 5.
378
Epist. nr 73.
379
Comp. Ps. cxix. 105.
380
Epist. nr 87.
381
Epist. nr 8; written between 709 and 712 (Hahn). Boniface is known to have travelled in the district of the Mosel; there is no other reason why this letter should be included in the correspondence.
