in 673, in the precincts of Jarrow, near the Mouth of the Tine, in Northumberland. He was bred up from his childhood in the said Monastery, where he lived all his life. He was ordained at nineteen a Deacon, and at thirty a Priest; from which time, till the fifty-ninth of his age, he never ceased writing. His Works are printed in Eight Tomes, besides his Opuscula. He died in 735, aged 62. His body was removed from Jarrow to Durham, and placed in the same coffin with St. Cuthberts' "-" Cotemporary with Bede lived Stephen Eddi, Heddi, or Eddius, in the Reign of Osric, King of Northumberland; he died in 720. Bede says he was the best singer in the North; on which account he was invited to York, by Wilfrid the Bishop, whose Life he wrote in Latin, in somewhat a better style than could be expected from that Age. This Treatise, which contains several material passages relating to the Ecclesiastical, as well as Civil State, having continued in Manuscript in the Library of Sir John Cotton, and also that of Salisbury, was published by Dr. Gale in his last volume of English Writers." "In the VIIIth Century lived Alcuin, or Albin, a famous Northumbrian. He was bred a Benedictine, and was made Abbot of St. Augustine's Canterbury. He was Disciple to Egbert, Archbishop of York. Being sent Ambassador by Offa to Charles the Great, that Prince got leave for him to stay at his Court, and was taught by him, Logic, Astronomy, and Mathematics. By his persuasion the Emperor founded the University of Paris, and likewise of Pavia. He wrote a great many Books, as Pits says. He died in 804. Malmsb."

Book IV.-Origin of the Danes, &c.

Cæsar de Bello Gallico.-H. Hunt.-Janus Kelding.-Jornandez.-Jo. Magnus.-Meursius Hist. Dan.-Pontanus.Rapin.-Rog. de Hov.-Saxo Grammaticus.-Suaringius

Chron. Dan.-Warnfridus (P. D. A.) de Gestis Longobardorum.

BOOK IV.-1. Egbert, the First King of England, 828.

Annals of the Cathedral Church of Westminster in Monast. Anglican.-Ann. Sax.-Asser. Ann.-J. Beaver.-Bede's Ecclesiastical History.—Brady.-Brompton.-Chronol. St. Augustin. Monast. Cant. in X. Scriptores.-Hist. Mon. Winchest.-Huntingd.-Ingulph.-Jos. Sarisb.-Leges Inæ. -Malmsb.-Matt. West.-Rapin.-R. de Diceto.-Rudbeck.-Sax. Ann.-J. Tinmuth.-Tyrrell.

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2. Ethelwulph, 838. ·

Ann. Sax.-Asser. Ann.-Bede's Ecclesiastical Hist.Boethius.-Brompton.- Buchanan.-Chronic. de Mailros. -Ethelwerd.-Flor. Wig.-Holinshed.-H. Huntingd.Sax. Ann.-W. Malmsb.

2. Ethelwulph in Wessex-Athelstan in Kent, 841. Asser. Vit. Alf.-Camden.-Dugdale's Baronage.-Flor. Wig.-G. Malmsb.-Huntingd.-M. West.-Sax. Ann.S. Dunelm.

Ethelwulph alone, 853.

Asser. Vit. Alfr.-Brompton.-Flor. Wig.-H. Huntingd. Ingulph.-G. Malms. et de Pontif.-Laws of Ina and Offa.— Rapin.-Saxon Annals.-Sigonius de Reg. Ital.-Selden's Titles of Honour.-S. Dunelm.-Tyrrell.

BOOK IV.-Ethelwulph in Kent-Ethelbald in Wessex, 857. Ann. Sax.-Asser. Vit. Alfr.-Camden.-Flor. Wig.Malmsb.-M. Westm.-Rapin.-J. Tinmouth in Sanctis.

3. Ethelbald in Wessex-Ethelbert in Kent, 860.

Asser. Ann.-Huntingdon. - Ingulph.-Malmsb.-Matthew of Westminster.-Rudbourne's (Thomas) History of Winchester.-Sax. Ann.

4. Ethelbert alone, 866.

Huntingd.-Malmsb.-Sax. Ann.

5. Ethelred I. 867-8.

Asser. Vit. Alfr.-Brompton.-Flor. Wig.-Hoveden.Huntingdon. - Ingulph. - Malmsb.-M. West. - Meursu Historia Danorum.-Pontanus's History of Denmark,Rapin.-Saxon Annals.-S. Dunelm.-Spelman's Life of Alfred.

6. Alfred the Great, 872-900.

Asser. Vita. Alfredi.-Asserius, a German Monk, taught Grammar and Rhetoric at Oxford.-Alfred's Laws.-Bede's Ecclesiastical History, translated into Saxon by Alfred, published at Cambridge, in 1644.-Boetius de Consolatione, translated into Saxon by Alfred, published by C. Rawlinson, at Oxford, 1696.-Brompton.-Buchanan.-Camden, and in Essex.-Chron. de Mailros. Dugdale's Baronage.Flor. Wig.-Gregory's Pastoral, translated into Saxon by

Alfred, and Preface to it. -Higden. History of Manaaca.-Holinshed.-Hoveden.-Huntingdon.-Ingulph.— Institution of Juries. - Lambarde. - Malmsbury.-Milton. Mirror of Justice. Olaus Magnus. Plot (Dr.) Rapin.-S. Dunelm. -Saxon Annals. Joannes Scotus professed Geometry and Astronomy at Oxford.-Spelman's Life of Alfred, and Account of his Works contained therein. -Stow's Survey.-Dr. Wilkins's and Lambarde's Leg. Sax.

Book IV.-7. Edward the Elder, 900-924.

Asser. Ann.-J. Bevour. -Brompton.-Camden.-Du Cange.-Flor. Wig.-Hoveden.-H. Huntingd.-Ingulph. -Malmsbury.-Matt. West.-Mezerai.-Pont. Hist. Dan. -Rapin.-Selden.-Saxon Annals.-Story of Edward and Egwina. Tyrrell.

8. Athelstan, 925-941. Brompton.-Buchanan.-Camden.-Flor. Wig.-Fordun.

-Hoveden.-Huntingdon.-Ingulph.-Malmsbury.-Sax.

Annals.-Tyrrel.-Jo. Wallingford.

9. Edmund I. 942-48.

Brompton.-Chron. de Mailros.-Fordun.-Hoveden.Huntingd.-Malmsbury.-Rapin.-Sax. Ann.-S. Dunelm.

J. Wallingford.

10. Edred, 949-55.

Buchanan. Camden. - Chron. de Mailros.-Dugdale's Monast.-Holinshed.-- Hoveden. -Huntingd.-Ingulph.Malmsb.-Matt. Westm.-Sax. Ann.-S. Dunelm.-Speed.

Book IV.-11. Edwy, 955-59.

Brompton.-Holinshed. - Hoveden.-Knighton.-Chron. Mailros.-S. Dunelm.-Sax. Ann.-William of Malmsbury.

Edwy in Essex-Edgar in Mercia, 959.

Brompton. - Hoveden. - Huntingdon. - Malmsb. — M. West.-Osbern.-S. Dunelm.-Vit. Dunstan.

12. Edgar the Peaceable, 961.

Anderson's Tables. -Brady.-Brompton.-Buchanan.Dr. Burnet's Preface to his History of the Reformation.Camden.-Collier.-Deut. XXXVI. 9.-Ethelred Rievallensis.-Flor. Wig.-Hoveden.-Ingulphus, his History of the Abbey of Croyland.-Chr. Mailros.-Malmsb. de Gest. Pont. Angl. &c.- Matt. Westm.-Osbern vit. Dunst.Rapin.-S. Dunelm.-Saxon Annals.-Stow.-W. Thorn. -Tyrrell.-Vit. Dunstan.-Wilkins.

13. Edward II. the Martyr, 975-79.

Baronius.-Brady. - Brompton. - Camden.-Eadmer.Flor. Worc.-Higden.-Hoved.-Huntingd.-Knighton. Malmsb.-Martyr Eng.-J. Pike.-Roman Martyrology. – S. Dunelm.-Sax. Ann.-Tyrrell.

State of the Church of England, from the Union of the Seven Kingdoms, to the End of the Reign of Edward II. the Martyr.

Alcuin. "Asserius Menevensis was bred a Monk of