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EGBERT, an English Man, Brother to * 1.1 Etbert King of Northumberland, was Arch-bishop of York, from 731, till about 767. The chief Work of Egbert was a Peniten∣tial, published in four Books, which are found in Manuscript in the Libraries of Eng∣land. We have different Extracts of it: There is one, containing divers Canons con∣cerning
Clerks. Another composed of 35 Constitutions against divers Sins of Clerks, and other Christians. These Collections are ill contrived, and of little Authority. * 1.2
There was printed in 1664. at Dublin, together with Boniface's Letters, a Treatise about the Life of Clergy-men; bearing Egber••'s Name. It is made up of Questions and Answers; and the Questions are not directed to one Archbishop, but to many Bishops: 'Tis therefore a Con∣sultation directed to a Council; but it seems to me to be much later than Egbert. The small Tract of the Remedies of Sins ascribed to Bede, is one of the ancientest Extracts of Egbert's Pe∣nitential: All those Pieces are of no great use. They are found in the end of the sixth Volume of the Councils of F. Labbe's Edition.
Aliàs Eadbert.
Egbert of York.