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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 51
that they had zeal for God, but not according to knowledge ;
and he taught them, as we have said, to hold the celebration
of the chief festival in the catholic and apostolic manner,
under the figure of an endless crown. 2
And clearly it happened by a wonderful dispensation of
God's mercy that since this nation had laboured to impart
to the peoples of the Angles, gladly and without grudging,
such knowledge as they had of the comprehension of God,
should itself also afterwards attain to the perfect rule of life
through the nation of the Angles, in those things which it
had lacked. So on the contrary the Britons, who refused
to extend to the Angles what knowledge they had of the
Christian faith, when now the peoples of the Angles believe
and are in all things instructed in the rule of catholic faith,
are themselves still antiquated and halting from their paths ;
and display their heads without the crown, and celebrate
the festivals of Christ without the fellowship of Christ's church.
Now the monks of lona received the catholic rites of life
through the teaching of Egbert, under abbot Duncan, 3 about
eighty years from the time when they had sent Aidan as
bishop to preach to the nation of the Angles. And the man
of the Lord, Egbert, remained for thirteen years in the aforesaid
island, which he had himself consecrated to Christ, as
though new grace shone forth of ecclesiastic fellowship and
peace. And in the year of the Lord's incarnation 729, in
which the Lord's Easter 4
was celebrated on the eighth day
before the Kalends of May, when he had celebrated the
solemnities of mass in memory of the same resurrection of
the Lord, on 5 the same day he too departed to the Lord ;
exile (III, 27, u.s.,) for missionary enterprise on the continent. But Boisil
of Melrose appeared to a former attendant of his, bidding him tell Egbert
that " whether he will or not, he must come to the monasteries of Columba,
because their ploughs do not go straight ; and it is meet for him to bring them
to a straight course " ; ibid., 297-298. A storm followed, and Egbert at
last desisted. This happened previously to 690 ; cf. H.E., V, 10, i, 298-299 ;
ii, 291-292.
Egbert appears to have been a bishop ; Bede, H.E., III, 27, i, 193 ; V, 9,
i, 296 ; Ethelwerd, in M.H.B., 507 ; Ethelwulf, De Abb., in S. of D., i, 270,
and note ; cf . Plummer, Bede, ii, 285.
1 Rom. X, 2.
2
I.e., the crown-tonsure.
3 Duncan was abbot of lona from 707 to 717, according to Tigh. ; who,
however, places in 717 the " expulsion of the family of lona across Drumalban
by king Nechtan," and says that in 718 " the crown-tonsure was put upon
the family of lona."
4 24th April.
5
Cf. Bede, H.E., Recap., V, 24 ; i, *356. A.S.C., all MSS., s.a. 729.
"
Bede, H.E., III, 27 ; i, 193-194 :
. . . [Egbert] departed recently to
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