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extraneus abjiciatur, et insuper ista confirmatio firma perma- 
neat. Ego Wellimannus rogatus scripsi et notavi diem et 
tempus et locum. Hee charta in Maguntia civitate scripta 
xi. Kal. Julias, anno x. regni domini nostri Caroli regis et 
imperatoris. 
s¢ ¢ 4 Sionum Beati abbatis, qui hanc chartam fieri rogavit. 
». Signum Comgani episcopi. 
+ Signum Echoch episcopi. 
++ Signum Suathar episcopi. 
++ Signum Maucumgib episcopi. 
+k Signum Caincomrihe episcopi. 
+ Signum Doilgusso episcopi. 
+ Signum Erdomnach episcopi. 
*~ Signum Hemeni presbyteri.’* 
‘¢ In the above charter we find the Abbot Beatus, whose 
influence was probably owing to the favour and patronage of 
Charlemagne, as expressed in the twelfth charter, granting all 
that he himself had acquired or laboriously put together ; also 
claiming the right of nominating his successor in the monas- 
tery, agreeably to ecclesiastical rule, a power which St. Co- 
lumba, and other founders, or restorers, exercised in Ireland. 
“The eight tributary churches, the first of which was 
founded by the Abbot Beatus himself, in Mentz, or Mayence, 
prove the extended jurisdiction of this monastery; and it is a 
curious fact, that there are just eight subscriptions to the char- 
ter, besides that of Beatus, each probably representing the 
minister ofan affiliated church. Some of these eight churches, 
probably all, are situate in the Palatinate of the Rhine, and 
lay near Mentz, on the south side of the Rhine. Hawenbach 
is now Hauenbach ; Bunenheim is the modern Bubenheim ; 
Rhodaheim is now Rodesheim ; Buchoniais probably Bokenn 
or Bockenheim. 
* Mabillon, Annal., Append. pp. 6996; 700 a. 
