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36 SCOTTISH ANNALS
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BEDE, HISTORIA ECCLESTASTICA, IV, 3 ; VOL. I, p. 206. *
. . . Wilfrid administered the episcopate of the church
2
of York, and also of all the Northumbrians but of ;
the
Picts also, so far as King Oswy could extend his empire. 3
671 x 672
WILLIAM or MALMESBURY, GESTA PONTIFICUM, p. 218.
And not less worthily [than Wilfrid] did King Egfrid fill
his office, extending his kingdom over the Picts and protecting
it against the Mercians.
For the Picts after the death of King Oswy made light of
the tender infancy of the kingdom, and came forth unprovoked
and united against the Northumbrians. But the royal
youth met them with his under-king Beornheth, and with
his few knights so destroyed the innumerable army of the
Picts that the plains strewn with corpses lost their flatness,
and the rivers were checked, being blocked in their course.
671 x 672
EDDI, VITA WILFRIDI EPISCOPI, XIX ;
VOL. I, PP. 29-30. 4
IN RAINE'S YORK,
. . . For even as the young man Joash, king of Judah,
while the high priest Jehoiada yet lived, pleased God and
1
Cf. A.S. Vers., i, 260. Cf. Eddi, XXI, infra, s.a. 671. Cf. A. of R.
V.S.N., in Pinkerton, 11.
2 "
W. of M., G.P., 215 : But [Wilfrid] persisted in refusing to receive
consecration from the Scottish bishops, or from those whom the Scots had
ordained ; because the apostolic see rejected their fellowship." Ibid.,
213: "The Psalter which [Wilfrid] had received from the Scots in the
translation of St. Jerome he collated and kept, after the Roman custom, in
the fifth edition." Cf. ibid., 211, note, MSS. B and C.
"
W. of M., G.P., 214 : The kings and warriors rejoiced and the province
exulted in having a native preacher ; for they now vomited their surfeit of
the Scots."
3 R. of H., D.H.E., in Raine's Hexh., i, 22 :
" At that time, therefore,
[Wilfrid] was the only bishop in the whole realm of king Oswy ; that is, in
the whole nation of the Deirans and the Bernicians, and also over the Britons,
and over the Scots from the island of Lindisfarne ; and over the Picts, because
Whithorn had not yet obtained a bishop of its own."
Cf. Eddi, V.W. Ep., in Raine's York, i, 79, 193; Cf. also Bede HE
V, 19 ; i, 327.
W. of M., G.P., 266: "Of all the episcopates which formerly were
placed in Northumbria and were under the supremacy of the [bishops] of
York, that only which was in the island of Lindisfarne remained."
4 Cf. Fridegoda, V.S.W., 539-552, in Raine's York, i, 127: "With