[156] As in _year_ the Anglo-Saxon _g_ was pronounced as _y_, hence the name Mayo. In east Yorkshire a gate is still called a _yet_. [157] See Appendix B. [158] The passage is incomplete, but this is the sense of it. [159] This is not Lull of Malmesbury, who was so great a help to Boniface; he died an archbishop in 787. [160] A presbyter, who succeeded his namesake in the archbishopric. [161] We cannot imagine another dignity open to an aged Archbishop of York to be preferred to that which he already held. But it is evident that Alcuin referred to his retirement upon an abbacy, which would set him comparatively free from calls for exertion. [162] Eph. v. 23. [163] It has been supposed that Alcuin refers to some purpose of bequeathing the library of York to Eanbald II. [164] Ecclus. vi. 6. [165] Ethelred of Northumbria was killed and Offa of Mercia died in this year 796. [166] James v. 11. Our version would have suited the occasion better than the Vulgate, “Ye have heard of the patience of Job.” [167] In the older MSS. _in Deo_, which has a subtle unintentional bearing on the controversy with which we are dealing; unintentional if, as seems certain, we possess MSS. of the Athanasian symbol of a date earlier than the beginning of the heresy of Felix. [168] The punctuation is that of Wattenbach and Dümmler. Migne puts a full stop after the Pope and another after the Patriarch: this would seem to make _singuli_ refer to two persons only, the two bishops. The Roman controversialist makes a different punctuation, putting a full stop after the Pope and running the three others together. The whole passage ought to be read in the Latin without any punctuation. See Appendix C, p. 319. [169] Ep. 30, A.D. 793. [170] But see p. 283. [171] Bede i. 25, “Imaginem Domini salvatoris in tabula depictam.” [172] The historian-monk of St. Gallen says that his new eyes were better than his old ones, both for use and to look at. [173] Ep. 120, to Arno. [174] The account which follows is taken from the contemporary annals of Eginhart. [175] Under the year 800. [176] The actual words are given by Baronius, but with a vague reference to his authority. They are given at length by Milman, _Hist. of Lat. Christianity_, ii. 205. [177] The ordinary word for the crypt or other receptacle of the body of a saint. [178] Stephen I was Pope 252 to 257. Another Stephen was elected on March 14, 752, but died before his consecration. On March 26, 752, the Stephen here spoken of was elected. He is thus more properly called Stephen II than Stephen III; and Stephen IV, who appears in Karl’s time, should be called Stephen III. Many writers, however, call them Stephen III and Stephen IV. [179] Labbe, _Concil._ xii. 539. [180] Labbe, _Concil._ xii. 543. [181] See p. 26. [182] The district was rich in wine, fruit, flowers, and honey. [183] Archbishop Albert of York; see p. 84. [184] Solomon’s Song, iv. 12—v. 2. [185] Isaiah, lv. 1. [186] But see p. 209.