28.-BULL OF POPE INNOCENT II. TO URBAN, BISHOP OF LLANDAFF.

Innocent, Bishop, servant of the servants of God, to our venerable brother Urban, Bishop of Llandaff, health and apostolical benediction. As we have commanded thee by other writings, so to thy fraternity, &c.1

1 The document ends thus, incomplete, and terminates the Work abruptly.-Bishop Godwin informs us that the mandates of the Popes respecting the restoration of the districts to the Church of Llandaff, were not obeyed, in consequence of the untimely death of Bishop Urban, who died in his way to Rome, on the prosecution of the business, in the year 1133.-Godwin de Præsulibus, p. 604.

For a Chronological Series of the several Bishops of Llandaff, see pages 623-628 of this Volume.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

OF THE

Appendir, &c.

APPENDIX.

I.

ANCIENT Annotations concerning the Church of Llandaff, written on the margins of divers pages of the Book of the Gospels at Lichfield, commonly called, THE BOOK OF ST. CHAD,1 which formerly belonged to the Church of Llandaff.

(1.) It is here shewn that Gelhi, the son of Arihtiud, + bought this Gospel of Cingal, and gave to him for it a

1 This very ancient MS. is supposed to have been written before the year 720; and tradition has reported it to be, though very improbably, in the handwriting of St. Gildas. The volume is of a quarto form, and, exclusive of its present covers, which are strong and thick, is 12 inches long, 9 wide, and 1 thick; including the covers, it is 12 long, 10 wide, and 24 thick. It consists at present of 118 leaves or 236 pages, commences with the beginning of St. Matthew's Gospel, and ends with Luke iii. 9. no part of St. John's Gospel remaining. It is written on thick, strong vellum, and the leaves are more or less discoloured by damp and great age; the writing however is quite legible, the colour of the ink well retained, and the chief part of the MS. considering its great antiquity, and the vicissitudes it has undergone, is in good preservation. The Saxon words and names occurring in the margins, plainly show that the Book has been in much use for administering oaths under the government of that people. There is a memorandum entered therein, stating that there was a letter written by the Rev. William Higgins, Precentor of Llandaff, dated Feb. 9, 1657-8, and addressed to the celebrated Dugdale, mentioning that through his care some valuable MSS. belonging to the Cathedral, and particularly this volume, were preserved during the civil war.-Ritson in his Life of King Arthur, p. 88. confounds this MS. with the LIBER LANDAVENSIS.

very good horse; and he gave for his soul that Gospel to God and St. Teilo, upon the altar.

Gelhi son of Arihtiud; and Cincenn+ son of Gripiud.

(2.1) Tydfwlch the son of Lliwydd arose, and Januarius the Hermit, to demand the land of Teilo, which was in the hand of Elcu the son of Gelhig and his family, and to redeem it, together with provisions for the consumption of Januarius the Hermit and his men, to be raised by a tithesman; and there were given to Elcu one bull, a horse, three oxen, and three milch cows, being, including a mare, nine beasts, for his possession. May he be saved henceforth to the day of strict judgment, who will not claim it for Tydfwlch and his family for ever.2

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+ Teilo, witness; Turgint, witness; Cinhilin, witness; Sps. witness; and all the family of Teilo; of the laity, Numin son of Aidan, witness; Signou son of Iacou, witness; Berthutis, witness; Cinda, witness. Whoever will keep it shall be blessed; whoever will break it shall be cursed.

(3.) This writing sheweth that Rhys, and the family of Grethi, gave to God and St. Teilo, Trevwyddog, which

This and the preceding document are written on the upper and lower margins of page 141 of the MS. which ends the Gospel of St. Matthew. At page 142 is a curious ancient portrait of St. Mark, similar to which it is conjectured was one of St. Matthew, on a leaf now wanting, between pages 4 and 5, that contained the conclusion of the genealogy. The figures at the commencement of these paragraphs refer to those with similar figures in the Latin original and in the facsimiles.

2 See facsimile, p. 271, by which it will appear that the Saxon Games, &c. here omitted, were interpolated at some period subsequent to these entries.