Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 2 (of 3), Church and cultureSkene, W. F. (William Forbes)
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Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 2 (of 3), Church and culture
Skene, W. F. (William Forbes)
Celts -- Scotland; Civilization, Celtic; Scotland -- Antiquities, Celtic; Scotland -- History -- To 1603
By the 135th, the boys and youths who are educated in the
canonry shall be well cared for and instructed, be placed under a senior
canon and dwell together in the upper floor of a house. By the 141st,
each bishop must provide a hospital for the poor and strangers, and each
cleric shall give the tenth of what he received for its support. By the
142d, canons are allowed to have separate dwellings, and proper places
shall be provided for the aged and the sick within the canonry; and by
the 144th, women must not enter the dwellings and the cloister, with the
exception of the church.[457]
[Sidenote: _Deicolæ_ in the Saxon Church.]
In the early English Church we find the name _Deicola_ in a Saxon form
applied to a community of solitaries. We find it stated in the
Peterborough MS. of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in the year 655, that
‘Peada, king of the Mercians, and Oswiu, the brother of King Osuald,
came together and said that they would rear a monastery to the glory of
Christ and the honour of St. Peter; and they did so, and gave it the
name of Medeshamstede,’ now Peterborough. In 657 the monastery was
finished, and consecrated by Deusdedit, archbishop of Canterbury, in the
presence of King Wulfhere, the brother and successor of King Peada, and
his earls and thanes. There were also present four bishops, and Wilfrid,
who was then only a priest; and the king endowed it. Then ‘the abbot
desired that he would grant him that which he would desire of him, and
the king granted it to him. “I have here,” he said, “God-fearing monks,
who would pass their lives in an anchoretage, if they knew where. But
here is an island, which is called Ancarig,” now Thorney Isle, “and I
will crave this—that we may there build a monastery to the glory of St.
Mary, that they may there dwell who may desire to lead their lives in
peace and in rest.”’ The king accordingly grants the request, and endows
this monastery also.[458] The expression _Gode-frihte_, or God-fearing,
here applied to these anchorite monks, is obviously the Saxon equivalent
of _Deicola_. In the following century the canonical rule was introduced
into England, as we find in a legatine synod held in Northumberland, in
the year 787, that by the fourth canon bishops are required to take care
that all canons live canonically, and all monks or nuns regularly—that
is, according to monastic rule;[459] and that the title of
God-worshippers passed down to the canon clerics, at least to those who
lived separately, appears from this, that, when King Athelstan was on
his march against the Scots in 936, he halted at York, and there
besought of the ministers of St. Peter’s church, who were then called
_Colidei_, to offer up their prayers on behalf of himself and his
expedition. They are said to be ‘men of holy life and honest
conversation, then styled _Colidei_, who maintained a number of poor
people, and withal had but little whereon to live.’ ‘It would appear,’
says Dr.
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