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reeds. It was afterwards covered with lead by Bifhop Eadbert. 

 His pains and fuccefs in making converts to Chriftianity were 

 very great, He was fo fortunate as to gain two crowned heads to 

 embrace it, Penda, King of Mercia, and Segibert, King of the Eajl 

 Angles. He is faid to have baptized them at Wall-tow^ now Welton, 

 twelve miles weft from Neivcajlle. Their fubjedts following their 

 example, alfo turned Chriftians, under the miniftry and preach- 

 ing of their Bifliops, Diiirna, and Cedd, ordained and fet over them 

 by F'man. Lindisfarn was governed by this bifhop ten years. He 

 died, 1 4th February, 661. His fucceflbr was 



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Coleman, a Scotchman alfo, who was bifliop only three years. 

 Chagrined at King Ofay's taking part again fl him with the Ro- 

 manifts in the point of C6wn:/7-government, he refigned his See, 

 and returned to Scotland. Thirty Englishmen, and all his coun- 

 trymen in the ifland, devoted to a religious life, went with him. 

 He lived to the year 676. His fuccefTors were fiich as adhered to 

 the principles of the church of Rome, of whom the firft was 



Tuda. He came into England with Coleman. He died fbon after 

 his election. The next chofen to the epifcopal dignity was 



Chad, a modeft and humble man, who accepted it rather to 

 pleafe others, than himfelf. He was ftiled, not Bifliop of Lindif- 

 fani, but of Tork y by the defire of his fovereign, King Alfred, 

 who defigned k for his governor or preceptor, Wilfrid. He was 

 twice confecrated, firft at Wincheftcr, by Bifhop Wine, on the va- 

 cancy of the See of Canterbury, and next at York, by Theodore, the 

 new metropolitan. In complaifance to that prelate, and the two 

 kings of Northumberland, Ofay, and Alfred, he retired to his mo- 

 naftery, and refigned his biflioprick in favour of 



Wilfrid, 



