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735<br />

PART II<br />

FLORENCE OF WORCESTER, VOL. I, P. 54.<br />

Pechthelm, 1<br />

bishop of Whithorn, died ; and Frithwald<br />

succeeded him <strong>in</strong> the rule of the bishopric.<br />

735, Aug.<br />

CONTINUATION OP BEDE'S HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA, VOL. I,<br />

p. 361.<br />

In the year 735 . . . bishop Egbert received the pallium<br />

from the apostolic see, and was the first after Paul<strong>in</strong>us to be<br />

2 and he orda<strong>in</strong>ed<br />

confirmed <strong>in</strong> the archiepiscopate [of York] ;<br />

Frithbert 3 and Frithwald 4 as bishops. And Bede the priest<br />

died.<br />

740<br />

CONTINUATION OF BEDE'S HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA, VOL. I,<br />

p. 362.<br />

In the year 740 ... Ethelbald, k<strong>in</strong>g of the Mercians, by a<br />

wicked deceit wasted part of Northumbria ; and their k<strong>in</strong>g<br />

Edbert 5 was occupied with his army aga<strong>in</strong>st the Picts.<br />

1 For Pechthelm v. supra, s.a. 731.<br />

2<br />

Cf. supra, s.a. 664, note.<br />

3<br />

Bishop of Hexham ; 8th September, but s.a. 734, S. of D., H.R., ii., 31<br />

So R. of H., D.H.E., <strong>in</strong> Ra<strong>in</strong>e's Hexh., i, 37. Frithbert died <strong>in</strong> 766 ; Cont<strong>in</strong><br />

of Bede, i, 363 ; A.S.C., MSS. D, E, accord<strong>in</strong>g to which he had been bishop<br />

for thirty-four years.<br />

4<br />

A.S.C., MSS. D, E, s.a. 762 (cf. <strong>in</strong>fra, s.a. 763) says that Frithwald<br />

died on the 5th May, 763, and had been bishop for twenty-n<strong>in</strong>e w<strong>in</strong>ters :<br />

" He was consecrated at Chester on the eighteenth before the Kalends of<br />

September, <strong>in</strong> the sixth w<strong>in</strong>ter of Ceolwulf's k<strong>in</strong>g-ship " ; that is, 734, Aug.<br />

15. Ceolwulf succeeded Osric <strong>in</strong> 729 : A.S.C., D, E, F (although MSS. A, B,<br />

C, D say <strong>in</strong> 731) ; 729, May 9, Bede, H.E., V, 23, i, 349.<br />

But Egbert did not receive the pallium till 735; A.S.C., MSS. D, E, F.<br />

5 Edbert was the successor of Ceolwulf Cont<strong>in</strong>. of ; H.E., s.a. 737, i, 362.<br />

He was tonsured <strong>in</strong> 758, and succeeded by his son Osulf ; ibid., 363. (Cf.<br />

s.aa. 737, 757, A.S.C., MSS. D, E, F ; Ann. of L<strong>in</strong>d., <strong>in</strong> M.G.H., 88., xix,<br />

505).<br />

S. of D., H.D.E., i, 48 :<br />

Eata, uncle of k<strong>in</strong>g Ceolwulf,"<br />

"<br />

[Edbert] was, as we have said, the son of<br />

ibid., II, 1, i, 47 ; so A.S.C., D, E, s.a. 737 ;<br />

55

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