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32 SCOTTISH ANNALS<br />
664<br />
BEDE,HISTORIAECCLESIASTICA,III,26;VOL.I,P. 189, 190-191. 1<br />
. . . Colman see<strong>in</strong>g that his doctr<strong>in</strong>e was spurned and<br />
his sect despised took with him those who wished to follow<br />
him, that is, those who refused to receive the Catholic Easter<br />
and the tonsure of the crown, (for the question concern<strong>in</strong>g<br />
<strong>this</strong> also was not the least important,) and returned to<br />
<strong>Scotland</strong> 2 to discuss with his followers what he should do<br />
regard<strong>in</strong>g these th<strong>in</strong>gs.<br />
Cedd forsook the way of the Scots and returned to his<br />
see, as hav<strong>in</strong>g acknowledged the observance of the catholic<br />
Easter. 3<br />
Now <strong>this</strong> dispute took place <strong>in</strong> the year of the Lord's<br />
<strong>in</strong>carnation 664, which was the twenty-second year 4 of K<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Oswy ;<br />
and the thirtieth year of the Scottish episcopate,<br />
which they held <strong>in</strong> the prov<strong>in</strong>ce of the Angles ; for Aidan<br />
held the episcopate for seventeen years, F<strong>in</strong>an for ten, and<br />
Colman for three. . . .<br />
And over the brethren who preferred to rema<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong> the<br />
church of L<strong>in</strong>disfarne when the Scots departed was placed<br />
<strong>in</strong> the rank of abbot the most meek and reverend man Eata,<br />
who was abbot <strong>in</strong> the monastery which is called Melrose. 5<br />
1 This chapter also is omitted by the A.S. Vers. Cf. H. of H., 99-100.<br />
S.of D., H.D.E.,i, 24-25.<br />
"<br />
A.S.C.,MSS. A, B, C, E, s.a. 664 : and Colman<br />
with his companions went to his own land."<br />
Eddi, V.W.Ep., <strong>in</strong> Ra<strong>in</strong>e's "<br />
York, i, 16 : But bishop Colman, hear<strong>in</strong>g<br />
what was to be done, through fear of his own land spurned the tonsure and<br />
the manner of Easter, [preferr<strong>in</strong>g] to depart and leave his see to be occupied<br />
by one better than himself ; and thus he did." Edm., V.W.Ep., ibid., i,<br />
"<br />
173 : because he refused to prefer to his traditions the traditions of the<br />
church."<br />
2<br />
Here, as above, " <strong>Scotland</strong> " (i.e. Ireland) <strong>in</strong>cludes lona ; see Bede,<br />
H.E., IV, 4, <strong>in</strong>fra.<br />
3 "<br />
Bede, H.E., III, 28 ; i, 195 : And hence it happened that, as catholic<br />
<strong>in</strong>struction <strong>in</strong>creased daily, all the Scots who dwelt among the Angles either<br />
submitted to [Wilfrid's regulations] or returned to their own land." Cf.<br />
A.S. Vers., i, 246, 248, which expands the passage, because of its omission<br />
of chapters 25 and 26.<br />
So Eata and Cuthbert had left Ripon <strong>in</strong> 661, supra ; but now they<br />
yielded.<br />
4<br />
Oswy succeeded upon the death of Oswald on the 5th August, 642.<br />
Bede, H.E., III, 9, 14 ; i, 145, 154. The conference took place some time<br />
before the death of Deusdedit, archbishop of Canterbury ; H.E., 28 ; i,<br />
194-195 ; his death took place on the 14th July, 664 ; H.E., IV, 1 ; i, 201.<br />
5 Eata transferred Cuthbert as prior to L<strong>in</strong>disfarne, Bede, H.E., IV, 27 ;<br />
i, 270. V.S.C., XVI, E.H.S. ed., ii, 79. Anon. Life of St. C., 23, ibid., 271.<br />
S. of D., H.D.E., i, 25-26. Life of Eata, <strong>in</strong> Ra<strong>in</strong>e's Hexh., i, 213-214.<br />
In 676 Cuthbert became an anchorite on Fame island ; Bede, V.S.C.,<br />
XVII u.s., 83. H.E., IV, 28 ; i, 271. Ann. of L<strong>in</strong>d., <strong>in</strong> M.G.H., SS., xix, 504.<br />
He had long desired to have " a very small cottage upon a rock, and to hide