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38 SCOTTISH ANNALS<br />

671 x 672<br />

EDDL VITA WILFRIDI EPISCOPI,. XXI; UKRAINE'S YORK, 1,31.<br />

T<strong>here</strong>fore even as the k<strong>in</strong>gdom of the most religious k<strong>in</strong>g<br />

Egfrid was <strong>in</strong>creased by his triumphs to the north and south,<br />

so was the k<strong>in</strong>gdom of churches <strong>in</strong>creased to bishop Wilfrid,<br />

of blessed memory, to the south over the Saxons, to the north<br />

over the Britons, and the Scots and Picts.<br />

681<br />

BEDE, HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA, IV, 12 ; VOL. I, p. 229. l<br />

And Eadhaed, Bosa and Eata were orda<strong>in</strong>ed 2 at York<br />

by archbishop Theodore ;<br />

and he also added two bishops to<br />

their number, three years after the departure of Wilfrid, 3<br />

Tunbert to the church of Hexham, (Eata rema<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g<br />

at the<br />

church of L<strong>in</strong>disfarne,) and Trumw<strong>in</strong> d to the Pictish prov<strong>in</strong>ce<br />

5 which at that time was subject to the empire of the<br />

Angles.<br />

? 683<br />

BEDE, HISTORIA ECCLESIASTLCA, IV, 25 ;<br />

VOL. I, PP. 262-263,<br />

What manner of vision appeared to a certa<strong>in</strong> man of God<br />

before the monastery of Cold<strong>in</strong>gham was consumed by fire.<br />

1 Cf. A.S. Vers., i, 300. Ann. of L<strong>in</strong>d., s.a. 681, <strong>in</strong> M.G.H., SS., xix, 504.<br />

Fl. of W., i, 37. H. of H., 101. R. of H., D.H.E., <strong>in</strong> Ra<strong>in</strong>e's Hexh., i, 213.<br />

"<br />

A.S.C., s.a. 681 : This year was consecrated . . . Trumw<strong>in</strong> bishop of<br />

the Picts, because then they belonged <strong>here</strong>," MS. E ; MS. F (written at Canterbury)<br />

" because they belong t<strong>here</strong>." Cf. Plummer, SC., ii, p. Ixx.<br />

2 In place of Wilfrid ; Bede, H.E., IV, 12 ; i, 229 ; V, 19, 24 ; i, 326, 355,<br />

ii, 324.<br />

3 Wilfrid was expelled by k<strong>in</strong>g Egfrid <strong>in</strong> 678 ; H.E., IV, 12 ; i, 228-229.<br />

Eddi, XXIV, <strong>in</strong> Ra<strong>in</strong>e's York, i, 34-36. De Arch. Ebor., <strong>in</strong> S. of D., i, 223.<br />

W. of M., G.P., 219-220.<br />

4 Trumw<strong>in</strong>'s name is shortened to Tuma <strong>in</strong> the Anon. Life of St. C.,<br />

4, 30 ; E.H.S. Bede, ii, 261, 275. He is given as the authority for certa<strong>in</strong><br />

<strong>in</strong>formation concern<strong>in</strong>g Cuthbert ; supra, s.a. 651, note. He was one of those<br />

who persuaded Cuthbert to accept the bishopric ; Anon. Life of St. C., u.s.,<br />

275. Bede, V.S.C., XXIV, ibid., ii, 98 ; H.E., IV, 28, i, 272. S. of D.,<br />

H.D.E., i, 31.<br />

5 In H.E., IV, 26 (<strong>in</strong>fra, s.a. 685) his see is located at Abercorn. So <strong>in</strong><br />

H. of H., 106, who calls him " abbot of Abercorn." But Fl. of W., i, 246,<br />

erroneously imag<strong>in</strong>es him to have been the first bishop of Whithorn. He<br />

was <strong>in</strong> fact bishop of the Pictish prov<strong>in</strong>ce south of the Forth ; i.e. Manau.<br />

6 "<br />

Cf. A.S. Vers., i, 348-357. A.S.C., MSS. E, F, s.a. 679 : and Cold<strong>in</strong>gham<br />

was burned by heaven-sent fire " ; S. of D., i, 59, " a few years only<br />

before [Cuthbert's] bishopric," <strong>in</strong> A.D. 685. Cf. Ann. of L<strong>in</strong>d., <strong>in</strong> M.G.H.,<br />

SS., xix, 504, s.a. 678.<br />

Cold<strong>in</strong>gham was a monastery of both monks and nuns. Cf. S. of D., i.

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