Notes: @Ehwald 1919, p. 495, identifies Aethelwald as the future king of Mercia (716-57). @Michael Herren and Lapidge and Herren 1979, p. 147, strongly contests this, observing: "However, the identification is impossible on the grounds that -w- and -b- are not interchangeable in Old English. All that we know woith certainty about this Aethilwald is that he was the author of some of the Carmina Rhythmica (Nos ii-v, printed by Ehwald (pp. 528-37).' (Herren and Lapidge, pp. 147-8.) *@Michael Herren in Lapidge and Herren 1979, p. 148, notes that the letter cannot be dated with any certainty but the inscription shows that Aldhelm was not yet bishop: 'The probability ... is that the letter was written after the mid-point of Aldhelm's abbacy.' BEASE, p. 20.