[131] We cannot trace his pedigree. [132] Simeon of Durham says that he committed suicide. [133] In theory, at least, we know better now. [134] A.D. 779 to 788. [135] James ii. 13. [136] Pet. iv. 17. [137] He died in 703. [138] He resigned in 716, and took from the library of Wearmouth the Codex Amiatinus as a present to the Pope. This huge and noble codex is now in the Laurenziana, in Florence. See my _Lessons from Early English Church History_, pp. 72-75. [139] See my _Theodore and Wilfrith_, pp. 106, 124, and for Acca’s Cross, pp. 257-61. [140] Bishop of Whithern (Candentis-Casae, Ep. 20, usually Candidae Casae), 777-789; of Hexham, 789-797. [141] Writing to an Englishman, Alcuin gives his Anglian name in its Anglian spelling and without a Latin termination. [142] See p. 123. The full story is given by Simeon of Durham under the year 790, meaning 791: “In the second year of Ethelred (i. e. of his restored sovereignty) Duke Eardulf was captured and taken to Ripon, and was ordered by the said king to be put to death outside the gate of the monastery. The brethren carried the body to the church with Gregorian chants, and placed it in a shed outside the door. He was found after midnight in the church, alive.” [143] In April, 796, the Patrician Osbald was made king by certain leading men of the nation. But after twenty-seven days he was deserted by the whole of the royal family and the chief men, and was put to flight and banished from the kingdom. He escaped with a few followers to the Isle of Lindisfarne, and thence went by sea with some of the brethren to the king of the Picts. Sim. Dur. 795. [144] Slain at Cobre (Corbridge has been suggested), April 18, 796. [145] The Picts of the east of Scotland. [146] Matt. xviii. 15, “Go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone.” [147] John viii. 34. [148] Cant. viii. 7. [149] 1 Tim. v. 20. [150] Matt. xii. 50. It will be seen that Alcuin does not quote exactly. The Vulgate has _frater et soror et mater_. [151] _Insula Sanctorum et Doctorum_, p. 272. [152] No doubt oil specially pure, and vegetable; we may safely say olive oil, for purposes of chrism. Theodore of Canterbury informs us (_Theodore and Wilfrith_, S.P.C.K. p. 180) that “according to the Greeks a presbyter can ... make the oil for exorcism and the chrism for the sick, if necessary; but according to the Romans only a bishop can do so”. Hence the mention of bishops in the letter of Alcuin. See also page 245, note 2. [153] In this case Alcuin writes _Karli regis_; in other cases he uses the full form Carolus, which comes from rolling the r in Karlus. [154] Shekels. On the argument that the didrachma was the shekel in the New Testament the sicle may be put at 1_s._ 7½_d._, but that gives no idea of its purchasing power then, which was probably nearer £1. It will be seen that in a later sentence sicles of pure gold are specified. [155] See p. 79.