Ecclesiastical History of the English People

the great courtesy and kindness of the Librarian, Mr. H. Bradshaw. While bearing the same testimony with others to the accuracy of Smith's general text, he has been kind enough to collate the Moore MS. throughout as to the proper names, whether Latin or Saxon, all of which Smith had reduced to a standard Latin form. To his kindness also I am indebted for note 1 on p. 75, note 2 on p. 269, and note 1 on p. 270.

The texts of the other three documents are based upon Smith's, to be found in his edition. That of the Historia Abbatum was from a MS. in the Bodleian Library (Fairfax, 6); that of the Letter to Ecgberht from one in Merton College Library; and that of Boniface's Letter to Cuthberht from the text to be found in Serarius' edition of Boniface's Letters. These have all been collated afresh with their originals, and found to exhibit no important variation from them. The Letter to Cuthberht, however, is incomplete in Serarius' edition, and the concluding portion is given from Spelman's Concilia Britannica.

My best thanks are due to the Rev. W. Stubbs, Regius Professor of Modern History, for the kindness with which he has looked over the sheets as they came from the press, and the valuable suggestions which he has from time to time made.

November 13, 1868.