et, nisi ab hoc citius resipisceret opere, eum se velle excommunicare jurejurando, dixere. Quorum increpationem ipse non modicum pertimescens, licet invitus, a tam Deo re perosâ cœpit se abstinere." Swegen, however, according to the story, avenged himself by seizing certain lands of the monastery of Worcester in Shropshire, which was not in his earldom. If there is any truth in this intervention of Lyfing, it must have been the last act of his life, and the affair of Swegen and Eadgifu must have happened early in the year. See P. 81. p. 614, 1. 5 from bottom. The word "uterinus" seems, however, to be sometimes used vaguely in the sense of illegitimate. See vol. iii. 662. The meaning would then be that Adelaide was a daughter of Duke Robert, and not a daughter of Herlwin. p. 619, 1. 12 from bottom, for "Odo the Second" read "his brother Odo the Second." p. 630, l. 10, for "of" read "on." p. 636, 1. 24, for "Dunresdæg" read "Dunresdæg." p. 639, l. 17. For other kindred stories, see Cox's Mythology of the Aryan Nations, i. 285. p. 642, 1. 16. To the authority of Simeon we can now add the other northern authority of the Durham Annals in the passages already quoted. p. 655, 1. 6 from bottom. It is just possible that William may mean only that Harold persisted in keeping his brother in banishment, that he would not listen to any requests for his restoration, though we do not hear of any such being made. p. 657, 1. 2 from bottom. Perhaps more probably a male name Ælfgeat than a female Ælfgyth. p. 661, 1. 9. It does however seem possible that Ivo had a wife Lucy, perhaps the mother of the Countess, though I do not see any evidence to connect her with the house of Leofric, except the faint chance implied in her being the niece of Robert the son of William Malet. See the somewhat suspicious Spalding charters in the Monasticon, iii. 215-217, and Mr. J. G. Nichols' paper on the Descent of the Earldom of Lincoln in the Lincoln volume of the Archæological Institute, p. 254. Of Ivo and Robert Malet I shall have something to say in my fourth volume. p. 661, 1. 8 from bottom. It is however possible that the meaning of the entry in Domesday may be that Godgifu, like many other people, was driven to hold her land T. R. W., by an inferior tenure to that by which she had held it T. R. E. p. 667, last line. The deed is also printed in Cod. Dipl. vi. 180. p. 669, 1. 3. There are some entries in the Exeter Domesday (166, 167) which seem to show that Ealdred detained some of the lands of his former abbey of Tavistock, just as he detained those of Gloucester and Worcester. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. XXXV p. 675, 1. 9 from bottom. Elfsige was a large landowner in Somersetshire and Devonshire, though, of course, it would not be safe to assume that all the entries in Domesday under the name of "Alsi," even in those and the adjoining shires, belonged to the same person. p. 677, 1. 5. Compare the way in which Eadward's purpose of restitution to Saint Mary's at Shrewsbury was hindered by his death (see p. 550). The solemn restitution may well have been designed to be made in the Christmas Gemót of 1066, if Harold had lived to hold it. p. 688, 1. 10 from bottom. It may be worth noticing, that though the Earls Harold, Morkere, Waltheof, and Ralph all had lands and jurisdictions in Lincoln and Lincolnshire, there is no mention of Tostig in the city, and he can hardly be the small landowner who appears in Domesday, 342, 343. |
