* .The :P It E F ACE. 



Bidiop Tanner "has placed three religious houfes amongiVus, 

 of whofe fituation we have no clear account from any good 

 authority. Thefe are Paegnalaech or Womalet, where Bifhop 

 Tuda was buried, Warmington, and Nejham (d). We have 

 a maritime place called Nejham, near South Blyth, but there 

 are no evidences of a monaftic foundation at it, either from 

 any ruins, from tradition, or from any written memorial^ 

 Paegnalaech or Womalet, and Warmington, are no where to 

 be found with us by the utmoft fcrutiny. The fagacious edi- 

 tor of Bede, Dr. Smith, confeffes it to be beyond his penetra- 

 tion and learning to tell where Paegnalaecb might be, unlefs 

 Pincbanheak, or Finchale, near Durham, might be it ; a 

 monaftery famous in the Saxon times, as attefted by the fynods 

 held at it, fo early as the eighth century (ej.. 



The manufcript of that great antiquary, Bifliop Nicholfon, 

 intitledj A Defcription of the antient kingdom of Northum- 

 berland, faid to be in the library of the Dean and Chapter of 

 Carlijle (f), might probably have given feme light herein ; but 

 unhappily for the Republic of Letters, there is no manufcript 

 of his Lordmip s in that library, except one, relating to hi*. 



;-<i,:>niA>t ~br'i , frjdl-'j &*$$*&! .h-m. 

 (dj Notit. MtmafL foL p. 189, 394. 



(() See Dr. Smith\ Note on Paegnalaech ia Btdes Ecclef. Hiftory, 

 * ' ^' . . tilu 



(f) Bp. Gibfon' > & Preface to Camden^ Britannia. 



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