Welsh Journals

1 Brooke, Christopher, The Archbishops of St David's Llandaff and Caerleon-on-Usk, in: Chadwick, N., Studies in the early British Church, Cambridge, 1958, pp. 208, 233). 2 Lloyd, Sir John Edward, A History of Wales, 2 vols, London, 1911, II, c. XIII. 3 Chartae Antiquae, C 115, A 41. 4 Chartae Antiquae, C 117. 5 New Palaeographical Society, ed. Thompson, E. M., and others, First Series, II, London, 1909-12, description to plates 60-62; against this: Ker, N. R., English Manuscripts in the Century after the Norman Conquest, Oxford, 1960, p. 17: 1125. 6 Cotton MS Cleopatra E i. 7 New Papaeographical Society, Second Series, II, London, 1913-30, plates 64-65; Ker, op. cit., plates 6a, 9, 18, 19. 8 This was announced in: Episcopal Acts and Cognate Documents relating to Welsh Dioceses, ed. Davies, J. C., HSCW 1, 1946, p. 22, n. 121. Dr. Davies informed me that the volume has been prepared for publication. 9 Woodruff, C. E., Some early professions of canonical obedience to the See of Canterbury, in: Transactions of the St Paul's Ecclesiological Society, VII, 1911-15, pp. 160-76, and Some early professions of canonical obedience to the See of Canterbury by heads of religious houses, in: Archaeologia Cantiana, XXXVII, 1925, pp. 53-72. 10 Haddan & Stubbs, Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents relating to Great Britain and Ireland, I, Oxford, 1869, p. 307. 11 At that time still known as 'ecclesia clamor- gatensis'. 12 Canterbury Cathedral, Chart. Ant. C. 115 no. 14. 13 Eadmer, Hist. Nov., Rolls Series, pp. 235-236. 14 Canterbury, Chart. Ant., C 117, no. 24. 15 BM Cotton MS Cleopatra E i. f. 30b. 16 Canterbury, Chart. Ant., C 115, no. 14. 17 Ker, op. cit., p. 18, facsimile: NPS, 2nd ser., II, pi. 65b. 18 That they are forms, not genuine letters, stresses Ker, p. 18. 19 Professor F. Wormald, who was kind enough to look at the roll, tends to believe that no. 3 was written 'in the second quarter of the twelfth century, more likely in Canterbury than not'. 20 British Museum, Harley Roll A 3, no. 3. 21 I wish to express my thanks to Professor Thomas Jones for allowing me to make full use of the proof copy of the forthcoming edition of this work, and to Dr. Wilks, who kindly suggested alterations. A word of thanks I owe to my friend David T. Clayton for unfailing assistance, especially for his help to present the article in English. 22 Owen, Edward, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts relating to Wales in the BM, 4 vols, London, 1900-22, III, p. 600: 1115. This is based on no evidence but the fact that Bernard was consecrated in that year. 23 Petition form for Norwich for the consecration of Everard. 24 Giraldus Cambrensis, De Invectionibus,, ed. W. S. Davies, in: Y Cymmrodor, XXX, 1920, II, 2, pp. 135-6. 25 Canterbury, Chart. Ant., C 136, printed in Haddan & Stubbs, Councils I, pp. 353-4, from BM MS Cleopatra E i. 26 Canterbury, Chart. Ant., D 108; cf. J. C. Davies, op. cit., p. 263-4. 27 Canterbury, Chart. Ant., C 137. 28 Chart. Ant., D 107. 29 cf. J. C. Davies, op. cit., p. 263, D 132. 30 Canterbury, Chart. Ant., C 134. 31 Printed by Woodruff, Eccl. Soc., pp. 163-4, discussed in detail by J. C. Davies, op. cit., pp. 57-66. I am inclined to think that the handwriting belongs to the middle rather than the end of the century: cf. J. C. Davies op. cit., p. 57, n. 281, also Brooke, C., op. cit., p. 205, n. 1. 32 Ed. G. Evans and J. Rhys, Oxford, 1893, PP. 237, 240, 246, 252, 280. 33 Brooke, C., loc. cit. 34 E. D. Jones, The Book of Llandaff, in NLWJ, IV, 1945-6, P. 155 35 Cf. J. C. Davies, Ep. Acts, I pp. 127-8. 36 art. cit., p. 157. 37 Canterbury Cathedral, Chapter Archives, Chart. Ant., C 134 printed in: Voss, Lena, Heinrich von Blois, Bischof von Winchester, Berlin, 1932, Historische Studien. Heft 210, pp. 176-77; I owe this information to Professor C. R. Cheney. The handwriting of the endorsement appears to belong to the end of the twelfth century. 38 Cf. J. C. Davies, op. cit., pp. 200-1; L. Voss, op. cit., p. 46. 39 Giraldus Cambrensis, De Invectionibus, loc. cit., p. 136. 40 It has to be regretted that 'consecrandus episcopus' has been repeatedly translated as 'consecrated bishop', cf. J. C. Davies, op. cit., passim. 41 Eadmer, Hist. Nov., V: 'sacravit ipsum accepta ab eo solita professione de subiectione et obedientia, p. 236. 42 Canterbury, Chart. Ant., C 115, no. 28 verso, printed Woodruff, Eccl. Soc, p. 170.