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of the week. And king Ethelwald, who was called Moll, gained
the victory in the battle.
763
ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, MSS. D, E, S.A. 762. 1
And Frithwald, bishop at Whithorn, died on the Nones of
May. 2 3
He was consecrated at Chester on the eighteenth
before the Kalends of September, in the sixth winter of Ceolwulf
's kingship and he was ;
bishop twenty-nine winters.
Then Pechtwin was consecrated as bishop of Whithorn at
^Elfet ee, 4 on the sixteenth 5 before the Kalends of August.
774
SYMEON OF DURHAM, HISTORIA REGUM, VOL. II, p. 45.*
In the year 774 . . . king Alchred 7 wT as by
consent of all his subjects 8
counsel and
deprived of the society of the royal
family and the chief men and ; changed for exile the majesty
of empire. He retired with few comrades of his flight first to
Bamborough, afterwards to the king of the Picts, Kenneth by
name. 9 -i
775
SYMEON OF DURHAM, HISTORIA REGUM, VOL. II, p. 46. 10
In the year 775 Kenneth, king of the Picts, was snatched
from the eddy of this 11
muddy life.
1 MS. F, s.a. 762, is less full. Cf. Fl. of W., i, 57, s.a. 763. H. of H ,
125, through misreading the A.S.C. calls Frithwald " bishop
of Chester."
S. of D., H.R., ii, 42-43 ; s.a.
Chr. Maj., ii, 344, s.a. 763.
"
764, but indefinitely, in these times." M.P.,
2 7th May.
3 15th August, 734 ; cf. supra, s.a. 735.
4
Perhaps Elvet, Durham. But ee means " river."
5 17th July.
6
Cf. S. of D., H.D.E., i, 49. Hoved., i, 9. A.S.C., D, B, s.a. 744, " in
Eastertide " ; so also Fl. of W., i, 58.
7 The successor of Ethelwald Moll ; A.S.C., D, E, F, s.a. 765.
" By the deceit of his chief men " ; S. of D., i, 49.
9 Kenneth, son of Feradach, became king of the Picts in succession to
Brude " king of Fortrenn," who died in 763, according to Tigh. For Kenneth's
death v. infra, s.a. 775.
10 Cf. Hoved., i, 10.
11 The text of S. of D. proceeds: "and alderman Adulf taken treacherously
by guile, after a short while's space was slain, and buried, and
orgotten." But above in S. of D., ii, 45, the death of an alderman Adulf is
the banishment of Alchred.
placed under 774, immediately preceding
Possibly by a confusion of names Eadwlf dux in the second place stands for
Alcredus rex : king Alchred's capture thus following the death of his protector.