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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