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Birth-Day of S. Gregory.
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' Bedt's Ecclefiajl. Hijl. lib. i. cap. 29. ^ An Account of thefe Books, that is, ofGregor/s Bibles, and th6 PPalter of Sc. Auguflm^ of the Sacerdotal Veftments, the Gold and Silver VeflTels, with the Pall, fyc. Mt.Wheloc promifed in his Notes upon Bede^ /. i. c. 29. p. 99. from the Canterbury Book, in Trinity Ball in Cambridge ^ which fpeaking of thefe very Books, has this Note : Wm sunt PRiMiTiiE Librorum totius Ecclesi/e Anglicans. This Account, which Mr. Wheloc only promifed, Mr. Wanley has giren us in his large and Learned Catalogue of Saxon Manufcripts, which it may not be amifs to give the Reader here tranflated into £^^/if/&, 1. The