Note 28 — AN ESSAY, &c.
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Alcuin bears this testimony to Offa’s laws not long after his death: “Vos quoque omnem gentem Merciorum admoneatis ut mores bonos et modestos et castros diligenter observent, quos beatæ memoriæ Offa illis instituit.”
Ex Epist. Albini ad quendam Anglum patritii ord. virum. Leland’s Collect. vol. 1. p. 402.