78 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



<he Danes made him refign his fee, and for the fame reafons 

 others declined accepting it. He died on a journey to Rome, about 

 the year 821, as is fuppofed. His bifhoprick, after a long va- 

 cancy, was united to the diocefe of Lindisfarn at Chefter-le-ftreet, 

 883, by Bifliop Eardulph. It continued in the pofleffion of the Bi- 

 fliops of Durham till the reign of K. Henry I. That King being 

 offended with Biihop Flamberd, gave it to the fee of York. Thomas, 

 Archbifhop of York, tliefecond of that name, coming to Hexham to 

 vifit the monaftery, was fo much moved with the fight of it, and 

 the cathedral, its folemnity and grandeur, which prefented to 

 his mind the great prelates that adorned it by their piety, exten- 

 five charity and learning, that he refolved to become its friend 

 and patron. He placed in the monaftcry a prior and regular ca- 

 nons of St. Auftin, 1113, and generoufly endowed it. Betides 

 other donations, very handfome and liberal, he gave it the cathe- 

 .dral and all its privileges, all the tithes within his manour, and 

 the pariili, of Hexham, both great and fmall (k). The parifh was 

 then a rectory, appropriated to the parilh of Holm in the church 

 of York, and in the pofTeflion of Richard de Mat on, a canon of Be- 

 verley (I). His vicarius, or vicar, was named Lilian, junr. He 

 had a houfe and a caracut * of land in Hexham, and fix bovats f 

 of land in Ainivick. The re6lor, Maton, for fome confideration out 

 of the common revenue of the chapter of York, refigned all his 

 rights to the priory ; but the vicar, Elllan, did not give up his 

 till after the death of the firft prior Afchtilli March lyth, n^o(m). 



(k) Id. 1. 2. c. 8. Dugd. Monaft. Angl. (I) Pr. Rlc. 



* A Hide, or Plough-Land, which was not of any certain extent, but as much as one 

 plough could in the courfe of hufbandry plough in one year. It was of the annual value of 

 five nobles, or \ 1. 13*. $d. Lord Coke. I Inft. fo. 69, &c. 



f Six Oxgangs. ( m ) Pr. Rif. 



There 



