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34 SCOTTISH ANNALS
gathered or that houses should be provided
for the enter-
tainment of the powerful of the world, since they never came
to church except only for the sake of prayer or of hearing
God's word. The king himself, when occasion required,
came with only five or six attendants ; and departed when
his prayer in the church was ended. And if perchance it
happened that they were refreshed there, they were content
with only the simple and daily food of the brethren, and asked
for nothing more.
For then the whole anxiety of those teachers was to serve
their whole care to cherish their hearts,
God, not the world ;
not their stomachs. And hence also the habit of religion
was at that time in great veneration insomuch ; that wher-
ever any cleric or monk arrived, he was joyfully received as
a servant of God by all. Yea, if he were discovered as he
went upon the way, they ran to him, and, bowing their necks,
rejoiced to be either signed by his hand or blessed by his
mouth. And they diligently offered a hearing also to their
exhortatory words. But on Sundays they flocked emulously
to the church or to the monasteries, for the sake not of re-
discourse of God. And if
freshing the body, but of hearing
any of the priests chanced to come into a village, straightway
the villagers gathered together and endeavoured to learn of
him the word of life. For the priests or clerks had them-
selves no other reason for visiting the villages than to preach,
to baptize, and to visit the sick ; and, to speak briefly, to
care for souls. For they were to such extent chastened from
all taint of avarice that none received territories or possessions
for the construction of monasteries, unless compelled by the
authorities of the world. And this custom was preserved in
all things for some considerable time afterwards in the churches
of the Northumbrians. 1
But of this enough said.
1 Bede's desire to hold up a pattern to the present must be allowed for
in his estimation of the past.
"
W. of M., G.P., 211 : Paulinus was the first archbishop of York ; and
he received the pallium from pope Honorius, as is known." Cf. ibid., 134.
The pallium was sent from Rome on llth June, 634 ; Bede, H.E., II, 18 ;
i, 122 ; II, 17 ; i, 118. Paulinus fled to Kent (H.E., II, 20 ; i, 125) immediately
after the battle of Hatfield, 12th October, 633 (ibid., i, 124.) G.P.
continues :
" When he was expelled, the Scots Aidan, Finan, and Colman,
wished to be exalted neither by the pallium nor by the dignity of a town, but
hid in the island of Lindisfarne." Cf. ibid., 67-68, 183, 266. Cf. Anon.
His., in Wharton's Anglia Sacra, i, 65, 66.
" W. of M., G.P., 135 : For the Scots also who, by favour of the kings
of the Northumbrians, had filled that province were accustomed rather to
hide ingloriously in swamps than to dwell in lofty towns." Cf. of Cedd,
Bede, H.E., III, 23 ; i, 175. W. of M., G.P., 307.