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of Angles, Picts, Britons, Scots, not only kept peace with 
him, but even rejoiced to pay him honour ; and the fame 
of his excellence and of his deeds of valour, diffused far and 
wide, came even to Pipin, king of France, wherefore, united 
to him in friendship, he sent to him many and different 
royal gifts." (Simeon Dunelm.) 
758. He resigned the sceptre to his son Oswulf, received 
the tonsure from his brother. Archbishop Egberht, and 
became a Canon of York. 
768. He died, and was buried at York in the same por- 
tions as his brother, who had died two years before. 
Ouomay in Simeon's notice, seems to be the name of the 
place in his own dominions where he assembled his army; 
Niicanhyrig, i.e, " the new city," the name of the place 
whither he had led them in the territory of Oengus. Had 
this occurred independently of its present context, I should 
have supposed the latter to have been Newbury, adjoining 
Scarborough, and so called to distinguish it from the old 
town on the rock ; it is now the name of the principal street 
there. But from the context I am obliged to look for it in 
Pictland, and identify it with Newburgh, in Aberdeenshire. 
I can find but one place in Eadberht's dominions with a 
name at all resembling Ouoma, and that is Hewenden 
(m before d becoming n). It is the name of a dene or valley, 
about three miles from Bingley, and Ouoma may have been 
the name of the neighbouring heights, on which is a circular 
encampment called Castle Stead Eing. If this were the 
place indicated, its central position perhaps marked it as 
suitable for the meeting of the forces of what are now the 
counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire, both part of the great 
kingdom of Eadberht; and such an occasion as this might 
well be that of his visit to Bingley. 
The latest inscription of historic interest, in these old 
runes of our forefathers, is that upon a fragment of one of 
