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THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 223<br />

flint ^ And a few years afterward Ofvvald <strong>the</strong><br />

king, and a number <strong>of</strong> adherents with him, were<br />

received with equal h<strong>of</strong>pitallty, and were equally<br />

baptized, among <strong>the</strong> Scots : inter quos exulans<br />

Ipfe Baptlfmatis facramenta, cum his qui fecum<br />

erant militibus, confecutus erat -. At Ofwald's<br />

departure from <strong>the</strong> country, he appears to have<br />

maue himfeif a perfeft mafter <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Scotch<br />

language : tam longo exilii fui tempore linguam<br />

Scottorum jam plene didicerat ?. And, upon his<br />

recovery <strong>of</strong> Northumbria from Cadwallaun, he<br />

fent and procared a biihop and various o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

teachers from <strong>the</strong> country, and <strong>the</strong> Northum-<br />

brians became <strong>the</strong> pupils and difciples <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Scots: mifit ad major es natu Scottorum —, petens<br />

ut fibi mitteretur antifles — ; accepit —<br />

pontificem Aidanum — ;<br />

exin ccepere plures per<br />

dies de Scottorum regione venire Britanniam,<br />

atque illis Angloruni provinciis quibus regnavit<br />

rex Ofuald — verbum fidei predicare— j<br />

imbue-<br />

bantur prseceptoribus Scottis parvuli Anglorum 4.<br />

And this continued <strong>the</strong> regular (late <strong>of</strong> Northum-<br />

bria for 30 or 40 years togje<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>the</strong> three fuc-<br />

ceiTive biihops <strong>of</strong> Northumbria being all Scotch,<br />

king Ofwi snd bifliop Chad being well acquainted<br />

•with <strong>the</strong> Scotch language, and even <strong>the</strong> fou<strong>the</strong>rly<br />

' Bede, 1. ill. c. i. * L. IH. c. 3.<br />

5 Ibid. ^ Ibid.<br />

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