The genuine history of the Britons asserted against Mr. Macpherson ...

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THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
kingdom of Mercia l^eing governed at the fame
period by two fucceffive Scotch bifliops ^ This
continued to the year 664
-. And a frequent
intercourfe was carried on by the Northumbrians
with the Scots and Pi^s afterwards, even to the
death of Bede. This hiflorian was born within
nine years after the termination of the Scottifli
biftiops, and finiflied his hiilory in the 59th
year, of his age and the 7 3 1 11 after Chrifl s. King
Ofwi, who had been educated among the Scots 4,
extended his empire over a part of the Pi6ls,
and fubje6i:ed his new dominions to the one bi-
fliop of Northumbria ^. Thefe were afterwards,
in 681, formed into a feparate diocefs by king
Egfrid ^, and continued fo to the year 685 7. In
the year 701 Adamnan, the Abbot of Hii, was
fcnt on an embalfy by the Scots to Alfrid king
of Northumbria, refided fome time in the coun-
try, and was converted by the Northumbrian
fcholars to the Saxon mode of obferving Eafter ^.
In 7 10 the monarch of the Pi£ls fent embaffadors
to Ceolfrid, the Abbot of Bede's own monaflery,
who had converfed with Adamnan before 9, and
with whom Bede was then, and had been for
» L. ill. c. 21, 24, and 2^.
• C. 26.
3 P. 795, Smith. * L. iii. c. 25 and 29.
s L. iv. c. 3.
* L. iv. e. 12.
' L. iv.c. 26, * L. V. c. ic.
»P. 215.
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