[243] Stevenson says: ‘Possibly he intended to refer to the use of the precious metals in sacred edifices. We are told, on the doubtful authority of William of Malmesbury, that King Ine built a chapel of gold and silver at Glastonbury. A ninth-century writer records that Ansegis, abbot of Fontenelle, 806–833, partly decorated a spire of the abbey with gilt metal, and another writer of that period mentions the golden doors of the “basilica” of St. Alban in his description of the imperial palace at Ingelheim. Giraldus Cambrensis ascribes the use of golden roofs or roof-crests to the Romans at Caerleon-on-Usk. The idea that a king’s palace ought to be decorated with the precious metals is probably an outcome of the late Roman rhetoric and Byzantine magnificence.’ [244] The early part of the sentence is corrupt in the MS. [245] The figure is found as early as Sophocles and Aristophanes. [246] Original. [247] This corresponds to the OE. _sāwle þearf_. [248] The Latin has: _inter cetera diuturna et nocturna bona_. Stevenson does not emend, but it seems as though we should read _diurna_. Compare, for example, in Stevenson’s edition, =78.= 14, 35, 39; =99.= 10; =100.= 11; =103.= 9. [249] Cf. chap. 55. The second monastery was for nuns, and at Shaftesbury; see chap. 98. [250] Original. [251] Original. [252] Cf. chap. 78. [253] Cf. chap. 78. [254] Original. [255] Supplied by Stevenson. [256] Original. [257] Matt. 27. 64. [258] Original. [259] Original. [260] Cf. chap. 92. [261] Original. [262] This passage is somewhat corrupt. [263] Gen. 4. 7, in the old Latin version, following the Septuagint. [264] Prov. 21. 1. [265] Original. [266] Cf. the _Chronicle_ under 894: ‘The King had divided his forces into two, so that one half was constantly at home, the other half in the field.’ [267] Original. [268] Or, ‘rank’ (_dignitatem_), as in line 3 of the chapter. [269] 2 Cor. 9. 7. [270] Original. [271] Incorrectly quoted from the _Pastoral Care_ 3. 20: ‘Ne quædam quibus nulla, ne nulla quibus quædam, ne multa quibus pauca, ne pauca præbeant quibus impendere multa debuerunt.’ [272] See chaps. 75 and 76. [273] See chaps. 74 and 81. [274] See chaps. 78 and 94. [275] Original. [276] Not from the Bible, but from St. Augustine’s _Enchiridion de Fide_, chap. 20: ‘Qui enim vult ordinate dare eleemosynam, a se ipso debet incipere.’ [277] Reading _divitiis_ for the _divinis_ of the text. [278] Cf. chap. 99. [279] Original. [280] Or, ‘chaplains.’ See p. 41, note 5.