Volume 3

Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England : being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman Conquest / collected and edited by Oswald Cockayne.

Date:
1864-1866
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Credit: Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England : being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman Conquest / collected and edited by Oswald Cockayne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    judgment upon Dunor.a I am indebted to Mi\ Snell for the information that this interlineation of the C.C.C. chronicle is in red ink, and has been -written with a scratchy pen, squeezed as much as possible into the blank space between the lines and at the end of a line of the old writing, and (that not giving room enough) is continued at the foot of the page. The word pej- is doubtful, and might be, as it has been, read ]>e^. The murder was committed, says Goscelin, at Hestrie, Eastry, near Sandwich. This author makes the archbishop and Hadrianus move first in the exposure and exaction of penalty for the crime ; habito concilio pontificali et populari regem arguunt parricidii. The archbishop he names is Theodorus, while the text before ns gives us Deusdedit. Eorcenberht and Deusdedit died both of them on the prid. Id. lulias,^ or on 14 July 664. It was then not Deusdedit who brought the royal crime before the lords of Kent, but Theodorus, and the year may well have been, as is alleged, 670. A Unch stm Thomas of Elmham in his work drew a map of the existing marks island of Tanet, with the devious cou.rse of the hind tie line. marked out upon it, and reports the existence of a limi- tary line, called once Domnevse meta, and afterwards meta sanctse Mildredse. Hasted tells us that the forty eight ploughlands thus ceded to the Abbey con- tain ten thousand acres of the best land in Kent, and are bounded by a linch or broad bank dividing the two capital manors of Minster and Monkton. An abbess Among the tests which modern sceptical criticism Domna or might apply to the narrative here before us is one de- rivable from the name Donaneva. The queens name was Gap, and it is Latinized in the charters as ^bba; from this by prefixing the Latin domna or dompna for domina is obtained Domneva, Dompneva. It wiU be CD. 900. 1 ' Htistads Kent, vol. iv. p. 315. b Beda, II.A. iv. 1. I