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Lives of the Bishops of Exeter, and a History of the Cathedral, With an Illustrative Appendix. [with] Index, Compiled by J.s. Attwood
Lives of the Bishops of Exeter and a History of the Cathedral With an Illustrative Appendix Index Compiled by Js Attwood - with Author:George Oliver General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1861 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: This arrangement continued in force upwards of two centuries, when, according to the evidence of William of Malmesbury, the librarian and precentor of that renowned monastery, both sees becoming vacant about the year 910, Plegmund, Archbishop of Canterbury, availed himself of the opportunity to establish three several dioceses, viz. Cornwall,2 Devon, and Somerset.3 Of course we reject the letter of Pope Formosus to King Edward, who did not ascend his throne until five years after that Pontiff's death; as also the assertion that Plegmund Archbishop of Canterbury, in consequence of such letter, proceeded to consecrate seven bishops on one and the same day of the year 910. The Saxon Chronicle shows that as early as 870, Aelthred Bishop of Wilts had been translated to Canterbury. From the Saxon Chronicle, and our ancient writers, we collect the following series of the Bishops of Devon, who fixed their see at Crediton, where it remained about 140 years : -- The first we believe to have been Eadwulp, or edulphus, or Adulphtjs. After filling the episcopal chair twenty-one years, he died in 931, and was buriedat Crediton. See Will, of Malm. ' De Gestis Pontif.,' lib. 2, and ' Chron. Florentii Wigorniensis.' Whitaker'a attempt, in his Cathedral of Cornwall,' vol. i. section 4, to make out the succetsion of the Cornish prelates (of which William of Malmesbury confesses his ignorance) is anything but satisfactory. Ralph de Diceto states that Athelstan was appointed Bishop of Cornwall in 910. In a charter of King Athelstan we meet with Ealred as its bishop, and in the manumissions entered in the copy of the Bo...« less