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fo near the wall with his name upon it. .They are both publifli- 

 ed by Mr. Gordon, with his own, and Baron Clerk's, and Mr. Cafe's 

 Obfervations upon them (v). To his, Mr. Gale hath farther added 

 this, That the whole vault, and the long winding fubterraneous 

 pafTages to it, are all built out of the Roman ruins; carved ftones 

 and fragments of other infcriptions appearing every where in 

 the walls ; and he fuppofes them to have been brought from the 

 neighbouring Roman flation at Cor-cheJIer, on the firft foundation 

 of the church. 



Hexbnm in the Saxon times was called Hextaldejhan^ and Haguf- 

 lald. In the reign of Eg f rid, King of Northumberland, 674, it was 

 creeled into an epifcopal ice by St. WiljYul (iv), Arbifhop of Tork^ 

 and afterwards confirmed by Theodore Archbifhop of Canterbury 

 (x). As Theodore was the firft who aflumed a jurifdiclion over 

 the northern bifhops and churches, it will not be amifs to enter 

 a little into his hiftory, before we proceed to give an account of 

 the bifhops of this fee. 



He was born at the city of Tarfus in Cilicia fy), a famous uni- 

 verfity in the days of St. Paul, wherein that apoftle had his edu- 

 cation (zj. Here he alfo had his learning, and took on him the 

 monadic habit. Being at Rome on the death of Deufdedit, Arch- 

 bifhop of Canterbury^ he was chofen by the Pope to fucceed him 



(v) It. Sept. Append. 

 Hers. p. 108, 109. 



(u>) Browne Willis's Survey of the Cathedral, Vol. i. p. 224. 



fx) Id. p. 30. (y) Hal. Chron. Vol. i. p. 120. 



(z) Bifhop Bull's Difcourfes. 



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