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operum strenuus, qui Patris Cutliberti, ecclesiam amplius 

 predecessoribus suis rerum et terrarum largitionibus locu- 

 pletare studuerat et honorare. -Sldificata nanque in Nor- 

 iham Ecclesia, eaque in honore Sanctorum Petri Apostoli et 

 Cuthberti Pontificis, nee non et Ceolwulfi Regis, et post 

 Monachi dedicata, transtulit illo corpus ejusdem Deo dilecti 

 Ceolwulfi ipsamque villam — Sancto confessori Cuthberto con- 

 tulit," (p. 89). 



The historian of the antiquities of Northumberland (Wallis), 

 in his account of Norham, calls the founder Egfrid, and as- 

 signs the date to be a.d. 830 ; but the similarity of names 

 given by Norman scribes may have led to some mistake in 

 the spelling. At all events there was a church built here 

 between 830 and 845, in honour of St. Peter the Apostle, 

 and Bishop Cuthbert; and to give sanctity to the spot, the 

 remains of King Ceolwulf, who laid aside the royal crown for 

 the monk's cowl, were brought from their original place of 

 sepulture, and deposited in Norham church. Here, too, 

 rested for many years the body of St. Cuthbert himself, ac- 

 cording to the authority of Camden (voL il p. 1099), when 

 the ravages of the Danes occasioned the transfer of the in- 

 corruptible corpse from place to place. For this reason Nor- 

 ham church, in the middle ages, had the reputation of being 

 a sanctuary, highly favoured by heaven, and its offices were 

 performed by a body of clergy, who boasted of miraculous 

 protection. Reginald, who lived towards the end of the 12th 

 century, tells the tale of a man who having been imprisoned 

 by King Malcolm in Berwick Castle, and loaded with fetters 

 of intolerable weight, implored the succour of St. Cuthbert 

 The saint came to his aid, conducted him out of his dungeon, 

 — led him across the Tweed with all his irons hanging about 

 him, and brought him in safety to the church at Norham, 

 ■where his fetters were seen for many years afterwards sus- 

 pended from one of the beams as a votive offering. See 

 Reginald, pp. 41-44. The venerable Saxon church of Ecgred, 

 or Egfrid, fell into decay, or was destroyed about the time of 

 the invasion of David King of Scotland, in 1138; and the 

 Norman church, which still survives in its nave and chancel, 

 was completed before the death of Bishop Pudsey, who died 

 1195. 



