[6] Dr. Guest and Mr. Freeman, and their followers, as the Saturday Review, and the various school histories, which, having adopted the innovation, are lauded in that journal.
[7] Prof. W. W. Skeat, Macmillan, Feb. 1879, p. 313.
[8] See “A Primæval British Metropolis,” Bristol, 1877, pp. 45-80.
[9] One of the obsolete ones was brought to mind by a paper read by Mr. C. E. Davis, at Bath, in 1857: another is printed from the Register of Worcester Cathedral in Thomas’s Survey, kindly pointed out by Mr. John Taylor; so that others, unreckoned, may possibly be brought to light.
There is one, in addition to all those above mentioned, at Dublin; but, as the dedications in Strongbow’s Dublin are no more than a post-Norman colonisation of those at Bristol, it does not enter into our reckoning.
[10] The genealogical relation of St. Werburgh and Æthelbald will be seen in this extract from Dr. Lappenberg’s Pedigree of the Kings of Mercia:
Wybba. | +--------+--------------------------------+ | | Penda, last Pagan King of Eawa, died A.D. 642. Mercia, reigned A.D. 626-655. (Called “Rex Merciorum.”?) | | +--------------+------------+ +-------+-----+ | | | | | Peada, K. of M. | Æthelred, K. of Alweo. Osmod. A.D. 655-656. | M. A.D. 675-704, | | | died A.D. 715. | | | | | Eanwulf. Wulfhere, K. of M. | | | A.D. 656-675. | | | | | | Thingferth. +---------------+----+ | | | | | | | | | Cenred, K. of M. | Beorhtwald, | | | A.D. 704-709. | Sub-King of | | | | Wiccia A.D. | | | | 636. | | OFFA, | Coelred, K. ÆTHELBALD, K. of M. St. WERBURGH, of M., A.D. K. of M. A.D. 757-798. died about 709-716. A.D. 716-757 A.D. 700.
[11] The birth, in the West of England, of this assiduous propagator of the great mediæval embodiment of civilisation, zealous devotee of the Church, and prominent European statesman, is so important a fact in our ethnical topography as to deserve a passing, though attentive, glance. On the authority of those who personally knew him, he was born near Exeter, about the year 680; but, although no Saxon Conquest had yet extended so far westward, he bore a Saxon name, although in the midst of a Celtic people. From this, and from other circumstances also mentioned of his early life, it may be inferred that his father was a peaceful Saxon colonist, in advance of conquest, and still a pagan; and that his mother was a British Christian. He is, therefore, the earliest recorded example of that irrepressible compound of the two races that has since made so many deep and broad marks upon the outer world. This fact, of a pacific international intercourse antecedent to conquest, was so directly in conflict with evolved history, that it has provoked an ineffectual attempt to subvert the testimony of it, by questioning the undoubted reading of the name as being that of Exeter. (E. A. Freeman, Esq., in Archæol. Journal, vol. xxx., or Macmillan M., Sep. 1873, p. 474).