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If this be a genuine Date, (and I fee no Reafon to 
queftion it) it is, I believe, the antienteft, Indian , or 
other, that has yet been taken notice of in England , 
perhaps in Europe ; and quite deftroys the Opinions 
advanced by Scaliger , VoJJius , F. Mabillon , Dr. JVallis , 
and other learned Men, concerning this Matter. 
Now I have mentioned this Abbey of Rumfey y I 
take Leave to corred an Error in Sir H. Savil’s (the 
only extant) Edition of Roger Howeden, Frankf. 
1 601. ^.426. Anno 967. Rex . . Edgarus in Mona - 
fterio Ramefeie, quod Avus fuus Edvardus fenior 
conftruxerat. — -Here it is called Ramefeie , by Miftake, 
for Rumefeie ; and again in the fame Page. But 
Ramefeie was Ramfey in the County of Huntington , 
a Monaftery founded by Ofwald * Bifhop of IVor- 
cefter , afterwards Archbifhop of Fork, confecrated 
by the faid Ofwald An. 991 f. This Identity of 
Name, unobferved, may occafton great Confufion in 
the Hiftory of thefe Two Places. I find F. Crejfy 
(p. 860.) or the Authors he tranfcribed from, milled 
by this typographical Error. Poffibly others may fall 
into the fame Miftake, by the fame Means. It is pity 
there is not a more corred Edition of that Author^ 
* Will. Maltnesb. De Gefi. Reg. Avg. f>. 56. 291 . 
| Simeon Dmielm. ad An. 991 . 
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