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believe that the Romans took the Icon-way or a trackway, as 

 either might have been the more handy for their wayfaring. 



ADDENDUM TO MY NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF 

 SHAFTESBURY, Vol. III., p. 27. 



A token of the two-kinned (British and Saxon) population of 

 Dorset, is given by Ealdhelm, first Bishop of Sherborne, A.D. 

 705. Venerable Bede writes that when he was a priest and 

 abbot of Malmesbury, by order of a synod of his own nation, 

 he wrote a notable book against the error of the Britons in not 

 celebrating Easter at the true time ; and in doing several other 

 things not consonant to the purity and peace of the Church ; 

 and by the reading of this book he persuaded many of them 

 who ivere subjects to the West Saxons to adopt the Catholic (Roman) 

 celebration of the Lord's Resurrection. The so-called many 

 whom he won over to the Roman Easter were, most likely, only 

 a small share of the British race in Wessex ; and then, again, 

 his letter of a kindly tone was written at the bidding of the 

 Wessex Witenagemote (Parliament), who, therefore, did not 

 wish to drive all the Britons into Wales or Brittany, whither 

 our old school books and others have told us they fled, but that 

 they sought to bring them into brotherhood with themselves by 

 kindly persuasion. 



