Note 868 — APPENDIX. (continued 2)

This is repeated in the same words in the collection called Canons enacted under king Eádgár, in that portion entitled “Modus imponendi poenitentiam.” But as Dr. Kunstman, an authority of the highest character on this point, informs me, these Canons are founded upon and contain portions of the very ancient Poenitential of Cummianus; and we may suppose Ecgberht to have adopted these passages from him.