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Melbourne Churchy Derbyfhire. 295

" portico. The word Porticus occurs feveral times in Bede, Alcuin, " Heddius, and other ancient Saxon writers, and is generally tranf- " lated by the EnglJJJi word Porch, and fo rnifleads us to think it (< fynonymous with Atrium, or Veftibulum, denoting a building with- " outfide the church, at the entrance into it : whereas this can by " no means be agreeable to Bede's meaning ; for in his account of " king Ethelbert's interment he exprefles himfelf in fuch terms as " will not admit of that fenfe. He was buried," fays Bede, " in " Portion Sit. Martini intra ecdejiam^ ; which mews that the Por- " ticus was within the church. And likewife in relating the burial

    • of archbifhop Theodore, A. D. 690, he fays, he was buried in Ec-

" clefld Sti. Petri, in qua omnium Eptfcoporum Dornvenienfinrn fiint " corpora depo/lta^. In the church of St. Peter, in which all the " bodies of the bilhopsof Canterbtirywcrc interred, though he had " before faid [ 5 ] that they were all interred in the north portico, ex- " cept Theodore and Berftwald, whofe bodies were buried in ipfa Ec- " defia, in the church itfelf ; becaufe that portico could not con- " veniently hold any more [']. To make thefe feveral paffages in " Bede ['] Bedae Hift. Eccl Lib. ii. c. 5. [] Ibid. Lib. v. c. 8. [ 5 ] Ibid. Lib. ii. cap. 3, [ 6 ] " The better to elucidate the fenfe of the word Pot ticus, the reader will be " pleafed to compare the following pafTages from Bede, and other ancient writers. A.D. " 721. obiit Johannes Ebor. Enifcopus in Monaflerio fuo Heveriae et ' fepultus eft in " 4 porticu S. Petri.' Bede Hift. Ecclef. Lib. v. cap. 6. A. D. 726-. obiit Tobias Rof- " fenfis Epifcopus, e^t ' fepxiltus eft in porticu S. Pauli Apoft.quam intra ecciefiam S. u * Andrese fibi in locum fcpulchri fecerat.' Ibid. cap. 23. A I>. 977. Sidemamms " Creditoniae Epifcopus ' fepalturae traditur in monafterio Abendonenfi in parre Eccle- 44 ' f]j Boreali, in portieu S. Pauli.' Chron. Saxon. A.D. 1034. Obiit Brithwius 44 Wellenfjs Epifcopus ; 4 hie jacet in aquilonari porticu ad S. Johannem (Glaftonis) . * Britwoldus Wintonienfis (1. Wiltonienfis) Epifcopus obiit A.D. 1045 hie fepultus

  • *fuit cum Brithwio in eadem eccletia in parte aquilonari.' Monaft. Angl. Vol. .
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