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CHAP. XIII. Of the Council he held with his chief men con-
cerning their reception of the faith of Christ, and how
the high priest profaned his own altars. [627 A.D.].
CHAP. XIV. How King Edwin and his nation became Chris-
tians; and where Paulinus baptized them. [627 A.D.] 118
CHAP. XV. How the province of the East Angles received
the faith of Christ. [627-628 A.D.]
CHAP. XVI. How Paulinus preached in the province of Lind-
sey; and of the character of the reign of Edwin. [Circ.
628 A.D.]

CHAP. XVII. How Edwin received letters of exhortation
from Pope Honorius, who also sent the Pall to Paulinus.
[634 A.D.] .

CHAP. XVIII. How Honorius, who succeeded Justus in the
bishopric of Canterbury, received the Pall and letters
from Pope Honorius. [634 A.D.]

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CHAP. XIX. How the aforesaid Honorius first, and after-
wards John, wrote letters to the nation of the Scots, con-
cerning the observance of Easter, and the Pelagian
heresy. [640 A.D.]

CHAP. XX. How Edwin being slain, Paulinus returned into
Kent, and had the bishopric of Rochester conferred upon
him. [633 A.D.].

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CHAP. I. How King Edwin's next successors lost both the
faith of their nation and the kingdom; but the most
Christian King Oswald retrieved both. [633 A.D.] .
CHAP. II. How, among innumerable other miracles of healing
wrought by the wood of the cross, which King Oswald,
being ready to engage against the barbarians, erected,
a certain man had his injured arm healed. [634 A.D.]
CHAP. III. How the same king Oswald, asking a bishop of
the Scottish nation, had Aidan sent him, and granted
him an episcopal see in the Isle of Lindisfarne. [635 A.D.] 138
CHAP. IV. When the nation of the Picts received the faith of
Christ. [565 A.D.]

CHAP. V. Of the life of Bishop Aidan. [635 A.D.]

CHAP. VI. Of King Oswald's wonderful piety and religion.
[635-642 A.D.] .

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CHAP. VII. How the West Saxons received the Word of God
by the preaching of Birinus; and of his successors, Agil-
bert and Leutherius. [635-670 A.D.].
CHAP. VIII. How Earconbert, King of Kent, ordered the
idols to be destroyed; and of his daughter Earcongota,
and his kinswoman, Ethelberg, virgins consecrated to
God. [640 A.D.] ·
CHAP. IX. How miracles of healing have been frequently
wrought in the place where King Oswald was killed;
and how, first, a traveller's horse was restored and after-
wards a young girl cured of the palsy. [642 A.D.]
CHAP. X. How the dust of that place prevailed against fire.
[After 642 A.D.].

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CHAP. XI. How a light from Heaven stood all night over
his relics, and how those possessed with devils were
healed by them. [679-697 A.D.]
CHAP. XII. How a little boy was cured of a fever at his tomb 159
CHAP. XIII. How a certain person in Ireland was restored,
when at the point of death, by his relics.
CHAP. XIV. How on the death of Paulinus, Ithamar was
made bishop of Rochester in his stead; and of the won-
derful humility of King Oswin, who was cruelly slain by
Oswy. [644-651 A.D.]
CHAP. XV. How Bishop Aidan foretold to certain seamen
that a storm would arise, and gave them some holy oil
to calm it. [Between 642 and 645 A.D.] .
CHAP. XVI. How the same Aidan, by his prayers, saved the
royal city when it was fired by the enemy. [Before 651
A.D.] .

CHAP. XVII. How a prop of the church on which Bishop
Aidan was leaning when he died, could not be consumed
when the rest of the church was on fire; and concerning
his inward life. [651 A.D.].
CHAP. XVIII. Of the life and death of the religious King
Sigbert. [Circ. 631 A.D.] .

CHAP. XIX. How Fursa built a monastery among the East

Angles, and of his visions and sanctity, to which his flesh
remaining uncorrupted after death bore testimony. [Circ.
633 A.D.]
CHAP. XX. How, when Honorius died, Deusdedit became
Archbishop of Canterbury; and of those who were at that

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time bishops of the East Angles, and of the church of
Rochester. [653 A.D.]

CHAP. XXI. How the province of the Midland Angles became
Christian under King Peada. [653 A.D.] .
CHAP. XXII. How under King Sigbert, through the preach-
ing of Cedd, the East Saxons again received the faith,
which they had before cast off. [653 A.D.]
CHAP. XXIII. How Bishop Cedd, having a place for building
a monastery given him by King Ethelwald, consecrated
it to the Lord with prayer and fasting; and concerning
his death. [659-664 A.D.] .

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CHAP. XXIV. How when King Penda was slain, the province
of the Mercians received the faith of Christ, and Oswy
gave possessions and territories to God, for building
monasteries, as a thank-offering for the victory obtained.
[655 A.D.] .
CHAP. XXV. How the question arose about the due time of
keeping Easter, with those that came out of Scotland.
[664 A.D.] .
CHAP. XXVI. How Colman, being worsted, returned home;
and Tuda succeeded him in the bishopric; and of the
state of the church under those teachers. [664 A.D.]
CHAP. XXVII. How Egbert, a holy man of the English
nation, led a monastic life in Ireland. [664 A.D.]
CHAP. XXVIII. How, when Tuda was dead, Wilfrid was or-
dained, in Gaul, and Ceadda, among the West Saxons, to
be bishops for the province of the Northumbrians. [664 A.D.] 206
CHAP. XXIX. How the priest Wighard was sent from Britain
to Rome, to be ordained archbishop; of his death there,
and of the letters of the Apostolic Pope giving an account
thereof. [667 A.D.]

CHAP. XXX. How the East Saxons, during a pestilence, re-
turned to idolatry, but were soon brought back from their
error by the zeal of Bishop Jaruman. [665 A.D.]

Book IV

CHAP. I. How when Deusdedit died, Wighard was sent to
Rome to receive the episcopate; but he dying there,
Theodore was ordained archbishop, and sent into Britain
with the Abbot Hadrian. [664-669 A.D.] .

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CHAP. II. How Theodore visited all places; how the Churches
of the English began to be instructed in the study of
Holy Scripture, and in the Catholic truth; and how Putta
was made bishop of the Church of Rochester in the room
of Damianus. [669 A.D.] .
CHAP. III. How the above-mentioned Ceadda was made
Bishop of the province of Mercians. Of his life, death,
and burial. [669 A.D.]

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CHAP. IV. How Bishop Colman, having left Britain, built
two monasteries in the country of the Scots; the one for
the Scots, the other for the English whom he had taken
along with him. [667 A.D.]
CHAP. V. Of the death of the kings Oswy and Egbert, and
of the synod held at the place Herutford, in which Arch-
bishop Theodore presided. [670-673 A.D.]
CHAP. VI. How Wynfrid being deposed, Sexwulf received his
bishopric, and Earconwald was made bishop of the East
Saxons. [675 A.D.] .

CHAP. VII. How it was indicated by a light from heaven
where the bodies of the nuns should be buried in the
monastery of Berecingum. [675 A.D.?] .

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CHAP. VIII. How a little boy, dying in the same monastery,
called upon a virgin that was to follow him; and how
another nun, at the point of leaving her body, saw some
small part of the future glory. [675 A.D.?]

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CHAP. IX. Of the signs which were shown from Heaven
when the mother of that community departed this life.
[675 A.D.?].
CHAP. X. How a blind woman, praying in the burial-place
of that monastery, was restored to her sight. [675 A.D.?] 237
CHAP. XI. How Sebbi, king of the same province, ended his
life in a monastery. [694 A.D.].
CHAP. XII. How Haedde succeeded Leutherius in the
bishopric of the West Saxons; how Cuichelm succeeded
Putta in the bishopric in the church of Rochester, and
was himself succeeded by Gebmund; and who were then
bishops of the Northumbrians. [673-681 A.D.].
CHAP. XIII. How Bishop Wilfrid converted the province of
the South Saxons to Christ. [681 A.D.]
CHAP. XIV. How a pestilence ceased through the interces-
sion of King Oswald. [681-686 A.D.]

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CHAP. XV. How King Caedwalla, king of the Gewissae,
having slain Ethelwalch, wasted that Province with cruel
slaughter and devastation. [685 A.D.]

CHAP. XVI. How the Isle of Wight received Christian in-
habitants, and two royal youths of that island were killed
immediately after Baptism. [686 A.D.]

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CHAP. XVII. Of the Synod held in the plain of Haethfelth,
Archbishop Theodore being president. [680 A.D.] .
CHAP. XVIII. Of John, the precentor of the Apostolic see,
who came into Britain to teach. [680 A.D.]
CHAP. XIX. How Queen Ethelthryth always preserved her
virginity, and her body suffered no corruption in the
grave. [660-696 A.D.]

CHAP. XX. A Hymn concerning her

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CHAP. XXI. How Bishop Theodore made peace between the
kings Egfrid and Ethelred. [679 A.D.]

CHAP. XXII. How a certain captive's chains fell off when
Masses were sung for him. [679 A.D.]

CHAP. XXIII. Of the life and death of the Abbess Hilda.
[614-680 A.D.]

CHAP. XXIV. That there was in her monastery a brother, on
whom the gift of song was bestowed by Heaven. [680 A.D.] 277
CHAP. XXV. Of the vision that appeared to a certain man
of God before the monastery of the city Coludi was
burned down
CHAP. XXVI. Of the death of the Kings Egfrid and Hlothere.
[684-685 A.D.]

CHAP. XXVII. How Cuthbert, a man of God, was made
bishop; and how he lived and taught whilst still in the
monastic life. [685 A.D.] .

CHAP. XXVIII. How the same St. Cuthbert, living the life of
an anchorite, by his prayers obtained a spring in a dry
soil, and had a crop from seed sown by the labour of his
hands out of season. [676 A.D.]
CHAP. XXIX. How this bishop foretold that his own death
was at hand to the anchorite Herebert. [687 A.D.]
CHAP. XXX. How his body was found altogether uncor-
rupted after it had been buried eleven years; and how
his successor in the bishopric departed this world not
long after. [698 A.D.]

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