[197] Five miles southwest of Chepstow. ‘There was an abbey there, where a traveling ecclesiastic would be likely to stay, and it was on the great Roman road to South Wales, by which a traveler from Wessex to St. Davids would proceed’ (Stevenson). [198] The MS. seems to be corrupt at this point, so that what I have given is a loose conjectural rendering of the Latin: ... _et illa adjuvaretur per rudimenta Sancti Dequi in omni causa, tamen pro viribus_. [199] Original. [200] Pembrokeshire and part of Carmarthenshire. [201] ‘Rhodri Mawr (the Great), King of Gwyneth, who acquired the rule of the whole of North and Mid-Wales and Cardigan’ (Stevenson). [202] Old name of Glamorgan and part of Monmouthshire. [203] In Monmouthshire. [204] Alfred. [205] See chaps. 8 and 56. [206] Original. [207] Perhaps Landford in Wiltshire. [208] In Alfred’s Preface to his translation of Boethius we are told: ‘[He made this translation as well as he could], considering the various and manifold worldly cares that oft troubled him both in mind and body.’ The similarity of phrase is striking. [209] Both in Somersetshire; these monasteries are otherwise unknown. [210] Largely from the _Chronicle_. [211] Largely from the _Chronicle_. [212] Namely, Alfred. [213] A mistranslation from the _Chronicle_; it should read, ‘were not in captivity,’ etc. [214] Here follows Camden’s famous (forged?) interpolation about Grimbald and Oxford. [215] Much expanded from the _Chronicle_. [216] From the _Chronicle_. [217] Charles the Fat. [218] Burgundy. [219] Chiefly from the _Chronicle_. [220] Cf. chap. 84. [221] Original. [222] Original. [223] Cf. chap. 24. [224] Author unknown. [225] Cf. chap. 76. [226] Original. [227] Luke 23. 42. [228] The following phrases, introduced at this point, seem to be corrupt: _Hic aut aliter, quamvis dissimili modo, in regia potestate._ [229] November 11. [230] Alfred calls the passages which he translated from St. Augustine’s _Soliloquies_ by the name of ‘flowers’ or ‘blossoms’ (_blōstman_). See Hargrove’s edition (_Yale Studies in English_ XIII), and his version into modern English (_Yale Studies in English_ XXII). [231] The application of the word to a work of St. Augustine’s gave it great currency in the Frankish Latin of the period. [232] The Handbook seems to have been known to William of Malmesbury (d. 1143); cf. his _Gesta Pontificum_, pp. 333, 336. [233] Original. [234] Unknown. [235] Cf. note 5, chap. 80. [236] ... _unicuique ubicumque male habet_. [237] Original. [238] Cf. chap. 74. [239] MS. corrupt: _De cotidiana nationum_. [240] This makes no sense; yet the Latin is: _quæ in Tyrreno mari usque ultimum Hiberniæ finem habitant_. [241] Cf. chap. 70. [242] Perhaps Elias III, patriarch from about 879 to 907; the MS. reads _Abel_. Stevenson’s emendation is supported by the fact that certain medical recipes are related to have been sent to Alfred by the patriarch Elias (Cockayne, _Leechdoms_ 2. 290).