NOTES ON THE BOOK OF CERNE, 159 



on the manuscript that Bishop Ethelwold of Winchester, 963 to 

 981, the founder and first Abbot of Abingdon, had for a pupil 

 ^ELFRIC the first Abbot of Cerne, who was afterwards Archbishop 

 of Canterbury. 



It is worth noticing that ^ETHELWEARD was Bishop of Sher- 

 borne in 909 and ^ELFWOLD in 958. 



It is not necessary for me to say more on this part of the 

 manuscript owing to the fact that an admirable editor has been 

 found in the person of Dom : Kuypers, who has recently com- 

 pleted a transcript of it, which is now passing through the 

 Press. I must confess to having devoted but little of the 

 somewhat scanty time at my disposal to the remaining pages of 

 the bound volume, a good part of which, namely, the sequences 

 used at Cerne, have already been printed in Weale's " Analecta 

 Liturgica," in fact, although the bound volume is of far greater 

 general interest than the loose pages, these latter, from the local 

 information which they contain, will naturally appeal to all 

 Dorset folk. The first entry on page one is the copy of an 



indulgence of twenty days granted by E , 



Archbishop of Canterbury and Papal Legate ; this is followed by 

 a relaxation of fifteen days of penance granted by Jocelyn to all 

 those who by their almsgiving had helped on the work of the 

 re-edification of the Monastery of Cerne. Jocelyn de Bohun, 

 you will remember, was Bishop of Old Sarum from 1 142 to 1 184, 

 and helped to frame the " Constitutions of Clarendon." 



A similar grant from the same prelate forms the next entry, 

 and then comes an account of how on [the i jih day of July] the 

 Feast of St. Basil, in the year of our Lord 1311, Gilbert, Lord 

 Bishop of Enaghdune, in Ireland, dedicated an altar in the 

 Chapel of Cerne Abbey [capella Abbatis Cernel] in honour of 

 S.S. Stephen and Laurence, martyrs, and S. Katherine, virgin 

 " et in annuis festis singlorum concessit xx. dies indulgentia." 



In the same year " crastino Sancti Basiiii." The aforesaid 

 Bishop " dedicavit totam capellam de Infirmarii Cernelii in 

 honore gloriose virginis Marie, S. Margarete et S. Appolonie," 

 and furthermore granted thirty days indulgence for ever. 



