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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 27
And he said, " John the Evangelist. And I have a text
which has seven folded sheets, one of which we can go through
each day, with God's help, reading and, in so far as is needful,
discussing it between us."
It was done as he had said. And they were able to fulfil
this reading thus rapidly, because in it they treated only of
the simplicity of the faith which works by love, and not of
the depths of controversy.
When therefore after seven days the reading was completed,
caught by the said disease the man of the Lord, Boisil, came
to his last day, and passed it with great exultation, and
entered the joys of perpetual light. 1
They relate that in these seven days he expounded to
Cuthbert everything which remained for him in the future ;
for he was a man of prophecy, as I have said, and of mar-
vellous sanctity.
Indeed he predicted that the bitterness of
the aforesaid pestilence lay before his abbot Eata, three years
before it came, and concealed not that he should himself be
removed by it ; but that his abbot should not die of it but
rather of that disease which the physicians call dysentery,
he foretold in truthful words, as the issue of affairs disclosed.
But to Cuthbert also among other things he told that he
should be ordained as bishop. . . .
SYMEON or DURHAM, HISTORIA DTJNELMENSIS ECCLESUS,
VOL. I, p. 22.
St. Boisil loved [Cuthbert] beyond the others, for the
purity and pious devotion native to him. And he taught him
in the knowledge of the Scriptures, as the book still shows,
in which he taught and [Cuthbert] learned ; preserved in
this church, after so great a period of years marvellous in its
original freshness and beauty.
1 Fl. of W., i, 27, erroneously ascribes Boisil's death to the plague of
A.D. 664. Cuthbert had been prior of Melrose " for some years " before
being transferred to Lindisfarae in A.D, 664 : Bede, V.S.C., IX, E.H.S. 3d.,
ii, 67.
Boisil's interment was upon the 7th of July, according to the Durham
obituary in L.V.E.D., 144. S. of D., H.D.E., i, 88, describes how Alfred
of Durham was inspired to elevate and pilfer Boisil's bones (" body and
vestments," List of relics, in S. of D., i, 168-169,) after A.D. 1122. Cf. the
A.S. poem De Situ Dunelmi, in S. of D., i, 221.
Boisil appeared twice in a vision (ca. 690) to a former attendant of his,
bidding him tell Egbert to desist from foreign missions and go to lona instead ;
Bede, H.E., V, 9 ; i, 296-298.
The parish and town of St. Boswells are named after Boisil.