Cod. Dipl. Nos. 139, 140, 143. ----- A.D. 782.—A gemót was held at Acleáh, now Ockley in Surrey[619]. ----- Footnote 619: Chron. Sax. an. 782. ----- OFFA OF MERCIA, A.D. 785.—In this year was held the stormy synod of Cealchýð, in which the province of Canterbury was partitioned; and the archbishopric of Lichfield founded[620]. It was clearly a witena gemót; as Offa caused his son Ecgferhð to be elected king by the meeting. ----- Footnote 620: Chron. Sax. an. 785. Flor. Wig. 785. ----- A.D. 787.—In this year there was another gemót; “synodalis conventus,” at Ockley[621]. ----- Footnote 621: Cod. Dipl. No. 151. ----- OFFA OF MERCIA, A.D. 788.—A gemót was held at Cealchýð[622]. And in the same year; according to the Chronicle and Florence[623]; but one year sooner according to Simeon Dunelmensis[624], was held the synod of Pincanhealh in Northumberland. ----- Footnote 622: Cod. Dipl. No. 153. Footnote 623: Chron. Sax. an. 788. Flor. Wig. 788. Footnote 624: Sim. Dunelm. 787. ----- OFFA OF MERCIA, A.D. 789.—In this year another gemót was held at Cealchýð, where a good deal of secular business was transacted[625]. In the second document cited in the note it is called “pontificale conciliabulum,” and this charter is signed only by the king and the bishops. Another gemót is also said to have been held at Ockley[626]; but the known error of two years in the dates of the Chronicle may make us suspect that this really met in 791. ----- Footnote 625: Cod. Dipl. Nos. 155, 156, 157. Footnote 626: Chron. Sax. an. 789. ----- OFFA OF MERCIA; A.D. 790.—A great gemót was held this year in London; on Whitsunday[627]. ----- Footnote 627: Cod. Dipl. No. 159. ----- OFFA OF MERCIA, A.D. 793.—A gemót at Cealchýð, called “conventus synodalis”[628]. Also about this time a gemót at Verulam, “concilium episcoporum et optimatum,”[629] ----- Footnote 628: Cod. Dipl. No. 162. Footnote 629: Rog. Wend. i. 257. ----- OFFA OF MERCIA, A.D. 794.—A gemót at Clofeshoas, called “synodus,” and “concilium synodale”[630]. ----- Footnote 630: Cod. Dipl. Nos. 164, 167. ----- ECGFERHÐ OF MERCIA, A.D. 796.—A gemót at Cealchýð, called probably in consequence of Offa’s death, and for reformation of affairs in the church[631]. ----- Footnote 631: Chron. Sax. an. 796. Cod. Dipl. Nos. 172, 173. ----- CÉNWULF OF MERCIA, A.D. 798.—A gemót, called “synodus,” the place of which is not known. The business recorded is merely secular[632]. Before the signatures occur the words: “Haec sunt nomina episcoporum ac principum qui hoc mecum in synodo consentientes subscripserunt.” The signatures comprise the names of several laics,—a plain proof that the word _synodus_ is not confined to ecclesiastical meetings. Another, or perhaps the same, at Baccanceld, Bapchild, in Kent, where the clergy made a declaration of liberties[633]. Another and very solemn one at Clofeshoas[634]. ----- Footnote 632: Cod. Dipl. No. 175.