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holy men, to whom, humanly speaking, we of the North are 

 indebted for our Christianity. The Missionary Aidan and 

 King Oswald, Cuthbert and the Royal Egfrid speak from the 

 tottering walls, and we listen to voices 



" Moat like to hira whose voice of old, 

 Was heard in desert air, 

 Make straight the path for Christ the Son, 

 Prepare the way — prepare."* 



In the Churchyard of Lindlsfarne the Ecclesiologist has two 

 objects for his study. The one is the outline of a Norman 

 Cathedral, with its very perfect west front, and which even 

 in its ruins gives a noble idea of the rich workmanship and 

 beautiful proportions of the architecture of the 11th and 

 12th centuries. The red sand stone, of which most of it 

 was originally built, is still found on the beach of Cheswick ; 

 and the whiter stone, which was used for later repairs, in 

 the quarries of Scremerston. 



The other is the Parish Church, a decided specimen, in its 

 arches, tracery, and columns, of the early English. A well 

 kept Parish Register is not the least interesting and instruc- 

 tive of the objects belonging to Churches and Churchyards. 



The register book of Lindisfarne contains some of those 

 insertions which reward the inspection of the curious. For 

 example : — 



"7th Nov. 1680 being Sunday about 12 o'clock full sea, 

 middle of the last quarter of the moonf was born, Jean, 

 daughter to Mr. John Udney minister, and was baptized 

 upon Twesday the sixtein of the said moneth." 



"Buried 16 July 1691 William Cleugh, bewitched to 

 death." 



"13 Jan. 1722-3 Thomas Waddle and James Wilson, lost 

 in the tide."" 



Having thus pointed to Lindisfarne, cursorily, as one of 

 the parishes on the Border which is rich in memoranda of 



♦ See the King of the Picte and St. Cuthbert, in Raines* North Durham, 

 p. 60. 



+ There is a curious discussion in the Archreologia iEliand. rol. IL part 8, 

 p. 369-380, in which Ccesar's notice of the moon and tide, at the time of his 

 invading Britain, is made use of to determine the place of his landing. 



