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refer to them on this occasion only on account of the 
probability that tbe larger one has a peculiar historical 
interest of its own. That part of the cemetery of the 
old monastery of Herutaeu, which was opened in 1833, 
contained the tombstone of Breguswith, the mother of S. 
Hild. It was, therefore, in use in her time, and the stones 
then discovered are of her time. That which bears the 
name of Hildithryth is the largest of aU that were found, 
either in that year or in 1838 and 1843, and may, there- 
fore, be presumed to have marked the grave of a person 
of especial importance in the community. It was no 
unusual thing for persons who had compound names, such 
as Hildithryth, to be known and called by the first element 
in their names ; thus, s.a. 571, in the English Chronicle, 
Cuthwulf, appears as Cutha, and s.a. 584, Ceolric, as Ceol ; 
and, besides other instances which might be quoted from 
our own histories, the Chronicon Scotorum supplies a later one, 
calling the Emperor Conrad II. of Germany, s.a. 1024 and 
1038, Cuana. For this reason, I have ventured to identify 
King Barnred, whose coin, found at Hexham, I have noticed 
above, with the traitor Buern, or Beorn. So Hildithryth 
may really have been the full name of S. Hild, and this 
stone her memorial. 
A pyramidal stone, twelve and a-half inches high, which 
may have been the lower part of a small cross, or one of that 
class of memorials of which two examples from Sandwich 
are now in the Canterbury Museum, was found some years 
ago at Monkwearmouth, on a spot which is thought to have 
been a cemetery on account of the discovery of the remains* 
of several bodies at the same time. It simply bears the 
name TIDFIRTH, and has been regarded as the memorial 
of a Bishop of Hexham, who died on his way to Rome about 
the year 820 ; but, as a large monumental slab, found within 
the western portions of the_church there, inscribed H I C IN 
