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44 SCOTTISH ANNALS
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Britons also considerable part recovered their liberty and
;
they have it even yet, after about forty-six years.
And there among very many of the English
race who
were slain by the sword, or given up to slavery, or who escaped
by flight from the land of the Picts, the most reverend man
of the Lord Trumwin also, who had received the bishopric
over them, retreated with his followers who were in the monastery
of Abercorn, placed, it is true, in the district of the
Angles, but in the neighbourhood of the firth which separates
the lands of Angles and of Picts. And he commended them
to his friends among the monasteries, wherever he could ;
and himself chose the place of his dwelling in the oft-mentioned
monastery of the servants and handmaids of God, which is
called Whitby. And there for a very long term of years with
a few of his [monks] he lived a life in monastic discipline
useful not to himself alone, but to many others also. And
there too he died, and was buried with the honour due to
both his life and his rank, in the church of the blessed apostle
Peter.2 . . .
And Aldfrid succeeded Egfrid in the kingdom ; a man
most learned in the Scriptures, who was said to be [Egfrid's]
brother and the son of king Oswy. 3 And he nobly restored,
though within narrower bounds, the ruined state of the
kingdom.
685
WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY, GESTA REGUM, VOL. I, p. 58.
Yet [Aldfrid] held not the kingdom with the same bounds
as did his father and brother because the Picts had ;
insolently
abused their recent victory, and attacked the Angles, who
were the less warlike after the long peace, and had curtailed
their territories from the north.
back to its former condition and subjection, through opposition of the secret
judgment of God." John of Tynemouth flourished about the middle of the
14th century.
1
Probably Strathclyde is meant. At this time English Cumbria was
separated ecclesiastically from Scottish Cumbria ; of. H. & S., ii, 5, 6.
2 "
Trumwin's bones were found recently [in Whitby,] and brought forth
into eminence," says W. of M., G.P., 254 : i.e., at Glastonbury.
3 Aldfrid is said to be Oswy's illegitimate son ; Bede, V.S.C., XXIV,
E.H.S. ed., ii, 97, 98 ; Metr. Life, XXI, ibid., 25.
. A.S.C., MS. E, s.a. 685: "And, after [Egfrid,] his brother Aldfrid
succeeded to the kingdom." Cf. the account of his succession in W. of M.,
G.R.,i, 57, where he is said to have been older than Egfrid ; but cf. Bede, Metr.
"
Life of St. C., XXI, u.s., 25 : And like a new Josiah he rules our world
with renown, mature in faith and in mind rather than in years." Aldfrid
died in 705, according to Bede, H.E., V, 18, i, 320 ; A.S.C., all MSS., s.a. 705.