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 rpaht? hec. ^ mib micel- ' Treatifes, and with great pegecneojibnyrretrober diligence inftrufted God's pole to J>am ecan life People in the way to EternaJ jepijTO&e. 3 pela pun- Life, and wrought many •t)pa on hip lipe ^c- Miracles in his Life-time, pophte. T pul&oppulhce and behaved himfelf in a J)^p papan petlep ge- moft glorious manner upon peolb xin geap. 3 pix the Epifcopal Throne thxr- mon^ap. 3 ten baja]-. teen Years, and Hx Months, •3 pi^an on J>yfum bx- and ten Days,and afterwards ^e separ ro Jam ecan " as on this Day departed to jedeheoponanpicepon the Eternal Throne of the })am he leopa^ mib Uobo heavenly Kingdom, in which /elmilitisum a butan he liveth with God Almighty en&e :• Smen > World without End. Jmen. As the Learned are obliged to Mr. Wanley for this Account of Aur guftwe's Library, and his ingenious Conjeftures relating to it, fince it has been difperfed ^ fo am I particularly obliged to him for acquaint- ing me with the Name of the Annalift who firft gave this account . which was Thomas de Elmham Monk of the Abby of St. Auguftm in the Reign of King Henry the Fifth. See Mr. Wanlefs Catalogue at the End of Dr. Hkes"^ ThefauYHs^ pag. 172, Literar. i>^^. 431. and in the Benediiitne Edition of St. Gregory % Works. " St. Gregory died anno DCV. Bede*s Ecclef. fftfl. lib. 2. c.i. Latr. T.dit. Far. Chiclet. Alfo Edit. Sax. Whel. With this agrees IV. Thorn. t[^ Canonic. Lichfield. Chron. Augujl. Cant, Gervaf, Dorobern. But the ^rfacon Chronicle afligns it to the Year DCVL See Wheloc^ '^dip. i^ Gibf. but in Gibf. Edit. Cod. Laud. 60^. noMh
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