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60 SCOTTISH ANNALS<br />

on the sixteenth l before the Kalends of August, by archbishop<br />

Anbald 2 and by bishop Ethelbert. 3<br />

796<br />

SYMEON OF DURHAM, HTSTORIA REGUM, VOL. II, p. 57.<br />

And Osbald the 4<br />

. . . patrician was deprived of all society<br />

of the royal family and the pr<strong>in</strong>ces, and put to flight and driven<br />

from the k<strong>in</strong>gdom. And he retired with a few to the island of<br />

L<strong>in</strong>disfarne, and came thence by ship with some of the brethren<br />

to the k<strong>in</strong>g of the Picts.<br />

830 5<br />

ca. 830<br />

SYMEON OF DURHAM, HISTORIA DUNELMENSIS ECCLESIJE, VOL.<br />

I, PP. 52-5S. 6<br />

[Egred, bishop of L<strong>in</strong>disfarne, 7<br />

] bestowed upon the holy<br />

confessor Cuthbert that vill [of Norham], with two others which<br />

he had founded, [both] called by the same name, Jedworth,<br />

with their appanages. 8<br />

the '<br />

place S. of D., H.R., ii. 53. I.e. at Harraton, near Chesterle-Street<br />

? Arnold, ibid., note. So Hoved., i, 12 (cf.<br />

"<br />

iii, 455, n.). At Whithorn," says M.P., Chr. Maj., i,<br />

Stevenson, Ch. His.,<br />

356, s.a. 793.<br />

1 17th July.<br />

2 Of York, 779-796 ; A.S.C., MSS. D, E.<br />

of lords.' "<br />

3 Of Hexham ; Baldulf's predecessor.<br />

4 Osbald was for twenty-seven days successor of Ethelred (sla<strong>in</strong> 18th<br />

April, 796) as k<strong>in</strong>g of Northumbria ; ibid. ; cf. De Pr. Sax. Adv., <strong>in</strong> S. of<br />

D., ii, 376. He died an abbot <strong>in</strong> 799 ; S. of D., H.R., ii, 62.<br />

5<br />

By the submission of Northumbria Egbert, k<strong>in</strong>g of Wessex, " acquired<br />

the whole of Brita<strong>in</strong> " ; W. of M., G.R., i, 107 ; that is, he was the eighth<br />

Bretwalda ; A.S.C., all MSS., s.a. 827.<br />

6<br />

Cf. Ann. of L<strong>in</strong>d., <strong>in</strong> M.G.H., SS., xix, 506, s.a. 830.<br />

7<br />

Egred was bishop from 830 to 846, Ann. of L<strong>in</strong>d. u.s. ; cf. S. of D.,<br />

H.D.E., i, 52, 53 (cf. supra, s.a. 651, note.) He built a church <strong>in</strong> Jedburgh,<br />

accord<strong>in</strong>g to Ann. of L<strong>in</strong>d., u.s.<br />

8 "<br />

. . . With two other vills : Jedworth, and the other Jedworth, and<br />

all that perta<strong>in</strong>s to them, from Duna [Down Law ?] to Teviotmouth, and<br />

thence to Wilton, and thence beyond the mounta<strong>in</strong> eastward." H. de S.C.,<br />

<strong>in</strong> S. of D., i, 201.<br />

Cf. S. of D., H.R., ii, 101, under the year 854 :".... And the follow<strong>in</strong>g<br />

residences [perta<strong>in</strong>ed to the church of L<strong>in</strong>disfarne] ; Carnham, and Holmcultram,<br />

and the two Jedburghs, to the southern district of the Teviot "<br />

(<strong>in</strong> text Te<strong>in</strong>etae ; <strong>read</strong> Teuietae,) " all of which bishop Egred had founded ;<br />

" "<br />

and Melrose, and Tigbrech<strong>in</strong>gham (<strong>in</strong> text Tigbreth<strong>in</strong>gham,) and Abercorn<br />

" (<strong>in</strong> text Eoriercorn ; <strong>read</strong> Eouercorn ?) "to the western district of<br />

Ed<strong>in</strong>burgh, and Pefferham, and Aldham, and Tyn<strong>in</strong>gham, and Cold<strong>in</strong>gham,<br />

and Tillmouth, and the aforesaid Norham. ..." So Hoved., i, 45, who<br />

adds after Cold<strong>in</strong>gham " and Birgham."<br />

Cf. His. de S. C., <strong>in</strong> S. of D., i, 199 :<br />

"<br />

And that land beyond the Tweed<br />

[perta<strong>in</strong>s to the land of L<strong>in</strong>disfarne], from the place w<strong>here</strong> rises the river

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