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his office to another, and fpent the remainder of his days in a 

 courfe of ftric"l piety and devotion. He died in 783. 



Higbald, his coadjutor, was elected his fucceflbr. He was not 

 long bifhop before the DaniJJj rovers made a defccnt upon the 

 ifland, cruelly ufed the monks, knocked fome on the head, 

 drowned others, and robbed and burnt their monaftery. The 

 abbey-church was fparcd. The bifhop, and fome of his clergy, 

 efcaped unhurt. He lived a great while after in his fee, tinmo- 

 lefted, and free from fuch alarming accidents. He died in 803. 

 His fee was filled up by 



Ecgbert, who was bifhop eighteen years. He died in 8121. 

 The next was 



Heathured. He had this dignity nine years. He died in 830 ; 

 and was fucccedecl by 



Egfrid, a gentleman of birth and fortune, of an enlarged be- 

 nevolence, and a free and liberal fpirit. He built the church of 

 Norham, removed the tomb of K. Ceoivulfto it, gave that village, 

 and five more, viz. Gedword, Gainsford, Ilcliff, Wicliff, and Billing- 

 ham, to his fee of Lind'isfarn, which he governed fixtecn years; 

 dying in 845. 



Eadbert was chofen in his place, of whom there is nothing 

 memorable, but that he was bifhop eight years, and died in 

 854. The fame year 



Eardulph fucceeded him, who had a moft troublefome time 

 by another defcent of the Danes in 875, under their General 

 Half den. In that year, Ualfdcn made an entire conquefl of Nor- 



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