Note 420 — Book XI.

I have retained the original word, not merely because I know of no word answering to the complex idea of Skene, but that it is very questionable, whether Skene be correct. He thus interprets the word—“If they dwell in cells, separate from abbies or monasteries.” (Reg. Maj. L. 3. c. 18.) From other authorities, I should rather have inferred, that the cellarii were a species of monks, invested with the power of providing for their Brethren, and regulating the internal part of their monasteries. But this again is with difficulty to be reconciled to the terms, in which one of them is spoken of—secundus pater in monasterio, unless we concur with Spelman, who says, when speaking of the word, crevisse videtur in amplitudinem. (Vide Spelman. Gloss, ad voc.)