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52 SCOTTISH ANNALS
and the joy of the chief festival, which he had begun with
the brethren whom he had turned to the grace of unity, he
completed with the Lord and the apostles, and the other
citizens of heaven ; or rather he ceases not endlessly to celebrate
the same.
And it was a wonderful dispensation of God's providence
that the venerable man passed to the Father not only on
Easter-day, but also while Easter was celebrated upon that
day, upon which it had never before been accustomed to be
celebrated in those places.
The brethren therefore rejoiced in the sure and catholic
and they were glad in the
recognition of the time of Easter ;
patronage of their father, by whom they had been corrected,
and who departed to the Lord. And he rejoiced that he had
been so long preserved in the flesh until he should have seen
his hearers receive and hold with him that day for Easter
which they had ever before avoided. And thus sure of their
correction the most reverend father exulted to see the day
of the Lord ; he saw it and was glad.
73i
BEDE, HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA, V, 23 ; VOL. I, pp. 350-351. l
But over the province of the Northumbrians, which king
Wilfrid 3
Ceolwulf 2
rules, four bishops now hold sway :
in the church of York ; Ethelwald 4 in that of Lindisfarne ;
the heavenly realm s ; that is, in the year of the Lord's incarnation 729, when
he was ninety years of age. Now he had lived his life in great perfection of
humility, meekness, continence, simplicity and justice. And hence he did
much good to hi s own nation and to those races of the Scots and Picts among
whom he lived in exile, by the example of his life, and the persistency of his
teaching, and the authority of his reproof, and the kindness of his distribution
of the things which he had received from the rich." Particulars are given of
his abstemiousness ; ibid.
Gaimar, v. 1664, says that Egbert was buried at " Mirmartin," which
may be a confusion for St. Martin's, Whithorn ; Plummer, S.C., ii, 40. Cf.
supra, s.a. 685, note.
1
Cf. A.S. Vers., i, 478, 480. H. of H., 116. S. of D., H.R., ii, 28-29.
2 Cf. Bede, H.E., Prsef., i, 5.
Ceolwulf became a monk in Lindisfarne in 737 ; A.S.C., MSS. D, E, F ;
Ann. of Lind., in M.G.H., SS., xix, 505; S. of D., i, 47, 201 ; H.R., ii, 32,
375-376. There he relaxed the rule imposed by the Scots of drinking nothing
but water or milk, and permitted the monks to drink wine or beer. S. of D.,
H.R., ii, 102. Hoved., i, 8, 45.
3 Cf. Bede, H.E., V, 6 ; i, 292.
4 Ethelwald succeeded Edfrid in 725, according to Ann. of Lind., in
M.G.H., SS., xix, 505 (cf. ibid., 504, s.a. 722.)
Ethelwald had been an attendant of Cuthbert ; afterwards prior (Anon.
Life of St. C., 33, in E.H.S., Bede, ii, 277) and later abbot (Bede, V.S.C.,