Alcuin of YorkLectures delivered in the cathedral church of Bristol in 1907 and 1908 . rch of St. Paul, or of the things which thesaid Abbat Albinus has given, at whose request wehave caused write these letters, or anything whichany one may have given in alms for his soul. Thatthis may stand the more firm, we have determinedto subscribe it with our own hand and have causedit to be sealed with our ring. The other document, addressed to all bishops,counts, officers, &c, grants licence to the monks, at the request of our most beloved and faithfulthe venerable Abbat Albinus 9J9 to have two shipsco
Alcuin of YorkLectures delivered in the cathedral church of Bristol in 1907 and 1908 . rch of St. Paul, or of the things which thesaid Abbat Albinus has given, at whose request wehave caused write these letters, or anything whichany one may have given in alms for his soul. Thatthis may stand the more firm, we have determinedto subscribe it with our own hand and have causedit to be sealed with our ring. The other document, addressed to all bishops,counts, officers, &c, grants licence to the monks, at the request of our most beloved and faithfulthe venerable Abbat Albinus 9J9 to have two shipscoming and going with necessary things on therivers Loire, Sarthe, and Vienne, free from was ordered to be sealed with Karls navigation of the Indre, being their own river,was no doubt free to them without grant. Ithier governed St. Martins at Tours from 770to 791. Soon after 791 he died, and was buried ina grave at the entrance of the nave of the abbatialchurch of Cormery, on the north side. The placecan still be pointed out. Eridugisus, the Nathanael Plate VI. Capital found at Cornier To face p. 227. CORMERY. 227 of Alcuins letters, who was designated by Alcuinas his immediate successor, became abbat of after Wulfhard II. He built a stonechurch, the west front of which still stands in con-siderable part, with the eleventh-century Roman-esque tower, most of which still stands, applied toit, the east wall of the tower being the west frontof Fridugisus. Plate VI shows a capital whichhas recently been found, evidently of the time ofFridugisus. Considerable parts of the later Gothicwalls still stand. They are carefully tended byM. Octave Bobcau, the local correspondent of theMinister of Public Education, whose apartmentsare in the refectory of the abbey. The cure ofCormery, M. labbe Jaillet, is a most obliging guideto the ruins, as also to his own very fine cruciformparish church. In these most recent days hisown is a misdescription. The inventories hav
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