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the river Tees and Tyne. K. dinitte gave Stainthorpe and Raby. K. 

 Ethelflan gave SowfA Weremonth, with eleven villages ; bcfides 

 many church-ornaments to his clergy. Stire, a nobleman, gave 

 the lordftiip of Darlington, -with its appurtenances, and two plow- 

 lands in Lumley. Sivacidpb, fon of Kike II, gave the lordfhips of 

 Bradburg, Morden, Grifeby, cum Saca & Socna. K. Vnlliam II, gave 

 JVbr/& Allerton, which bimop Pitdjey built, and gave Sadberg, pur- 

 chafed by him of K. Richard. Bilhop V/alcher gave Jarrow ; and 

 Tillered, abbot of Heffercbam, gave 5&^/j rW<?w ; biiliop Egfrid gave 

 the church and village of Nor ham, Sec. K. Egfrid gave Chtfler-k- 

 Jlrat(l). 



St. Cutbbert's fhrine had this privilege, that whoever fled to it, 

 fhould be fafe for thirty-feven days (m). 



Such were anticntly the powers and revenues of this bifhoprick, 

 called St. Cutbbert's patrimony. It is Hill, perhaps, the beft in 

 England, being a principality, veiled with large Rsgaliti, creeled 

 in troubleibme times for the fecurity and defence of the borders. 



I have been the more particular in my account of this bifhop- 

 rick of Lindisfarn, and its bifhops, bccaufe their hiftory is a piece 

 of antiquity, which fhews the fpirit and temper of the firft pro* 

 feflbrs of Chriftianity in Northumberland* The monaflery occafi- 

 onally mentioned, of Aidans foundation (n), was under the go- 

 vernment of the biftiops (o). The abbot and monks were the 



(1) Lei. Iiin. vol. viii. p. 10, 11. (m) Hal. Chron. vol. i. p. 155. 



(n) Bed. Vita Cuthb. p. 241, 242. 



(o) De Epifcopis Lindisfarnenfibus wharttni Anglla Sacra, torn, i, p. 691, &c. 



Monaft. jtngl. vol. ii. p. 845. Jc Exord. et Statu Lindisfarn. Ecclef. Ex Codice MS. 

 Ethelwafdi Epifc. Winton. Traaclat. de Abbatibus Lindisf. 980. 

 Rec, in Scac. 21 R'n. II. Mich, Rot recit. Cartam Ed. III. 



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