ANTIQUITIES OF NORTKUM^MlAND. 



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of twelve &IXOM children, whom he trainedPfUp to piety and 

 learning. Before his death, he had the pleafure ; of feeing Eat a pre- 

 ferred to be abbot of Metros ; who left that monaftery to be abbot 

 of Lindlsfarn, in 664. He prefided over it fourteen years. He 

 had not b'een long bifhop before his diocefe of Bernlcia was di- 

 vided into two, Landisfarn and Hex ham, as before-mentioned. 

 Tumbsrt was chofen to the latter. Being agaiiift Theodore'?, having 

 any jurifdiction over the northern churches, he was depofcd in a 

 full chapter of bilhops, convened by the archbimop of T-iviford, 

 by the river Aln, 684. They proceeded, after his degradation, to 

 elect another in his room. The choice fell on Cuthbert^ a monk 

 of Lindisfarn. Cuthbert was with difficulty brought to comply to 

 accept it, and, at length, only on condition that he might re- 

 main at Landisfarn. It was agreed therefore to give him the fee 

 of Landisfarn, and to traiiflate Eata to Hexham. 



Cuthbert had his education in the monaftery of Metros, under 

 Eata, who had brought him with him to Landisfarn, and fettled 

 him in that abbey. He was an exemplary, modeil, humble, and 

 good man, took great pains to make others fo, would go for 

 whole weeks and months into the moft unfrequented and unci- 

 vilized parts of the diocefe, moors and mountains, for that pur- 

 pofe, by himfelf and alone, where other learned perfons would 

 not come. He was handfomc, had a graceful elocution, and a 

 pcrfuafive manner, which with his other good qualities, his ex- 

 tenlive charity and good nature, were powerful and irrefiiUble 

 charms. Finding his health declining, and unable to fuftain the 

 weight of epifcopal cares, he refigned his bimopric, after he 

 had held it two years. He furvived his refignation only two 

 months, dying scth March, 687, at his hermitage or folitude in 

 the ifland of Farn, and for his eminent virtues was canonized. 



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