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and Erne/how (cj. It is fuppofed to be the prefent village of 

 Nether Warden, The dedication of the church, the diftance from 

 Hexbam, and the fituation, under a hill, on a peninfula, by the 

 union of the two rivers of North and South Tyne, all correfpond to 

 fix it there. 



In this fweet recefs, Bifhop John and his chaplains fpent their 

 leifure whilft at Hexham, never weary of fpencling it well, in aiStr, 

 of devotion, of charity, and in reading. Exemplary men ! wor- 

 thy of imitation ! The bifliop died in 721, and was buried in his 

 own monaftery. For his piety and good works he was canonized 

 after his death, and became celebrated by the name of St. John 

 of Beverly. He was fucceedcd in the fee of York by his chaplain, 

 Wilfrid the younger, and in this of Hexbam by 



St. Wilfrid, or Wilfrid the elder. In the difputes above mentioned 

 with archbifhop Theodore, he was overmatched, and on the lofs 

 of the fee of York, given to Sofa, in his abfence at Rome, he was 

 glad on his return to be re-inflated in this his favourite one, of 

 his own foundation. In the height of his archiepifcopal grandeur 

 he obtained a grant from King Egfrid, by the favour of his Queen, 

 Etheldreda, of the town of Hexham, and the large tract of country, 

 called Hexhamjhire, with the regalities, giving other lands in ex- 

 change for them. He annexed them to this biflio prick. The 

 fine church in Hcxham, dedicated to St. Andreiv, fo much extolled 

 by Prior Richard, Heddius, Hovedon, Malmjbury, and others (d), was 

 of his erection. The workmen were brought from Rome. The 

 model, finifhing, and decoration, were then above any in Eng- 



(c) Traclatus de ftatu & epifcopis Hagujlald, inter decerr fcriptores Hift. Angl. p. 291. 



(d) Liland's Cdlc&anca, vol. ii. p. 259. vol. iii. p. 109. 



L 2 land, 



