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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2016
When Augustine came to Kent in 597, bringing to its inhabitants the good news of the Gospel, he came as the emissary of St Gregory the Great for the conversion of England. Within four years of his arrival, and probably as soon as the news of Æthelbert’s baptism had reached Rome, St Gregory had despatched a carefully worked-out scheme for the ordering of the Church among the English. Augustine was to set up a metropolitan see at London with authority over twelve dioceses, and, wrote St Gregory, ‘we wish you to send to the city of York a bishop, the choice of whom we leave to you, on the understanding that if this city and the surrounding lands shall receive the word of God, he also shall establish twelve bishops and enjoy metropolitan authority.’
Page 126 of note 1 Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica, ed. Plummer, 63-4.
Page 126 of note 2 Ibid., 85.
Page 127 of note 1 Ibid., 134.
Page 127 of note 2 Adamnan, Life of Columba, ed. A. O. and M. O. Anderson, 229.
Page 127 of note 3 Ibid., 437-41.
Page 127 of note 4 Bede, op. cit., 82.
Page 128 of note 1 Epistola ad Ecgbertum Episcopum, ed. Plummer, 410.
Page 128 of note 2 Bede, op. cit., 175.
Page 129 of note 1 C. A. Gresham, Antiquity, XVI (1942), and essay by K. Jackson in Celt and Saxon, ed. N. K. Chadwick, 32.
Page 129 of note 2 Bede, op. cit., 115.
Page 129 of note 3 Eddius Stephanus, The Life of Bishop Wilfrid, ed. B. Colgrave, 76. Dr Hope-Taylor’s excavations of 1965 suggest a site on Doon Hill, near Dunbar, for the actual stronghold. This would not affect the argument put forward in this essay.
Page 130 of note 1 Bede, op. cit., 105; and Dr Hope-Taylor’s paper on ‘Yeavering’ delivered to the Society of Antiquaries, 28 November, 1963.
Page 130 of note 2 F. M. Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, 78.
Page 130 of note 3 Celt and Saxon, ed. N. K. Chadwick, 42.
Page 130 of note 4 Two Lives of S. Cuthbert, ed. B. Colgrave, 123.
Page 130 of note 5 Ibid., 249.
Page 131 of note 1 Ibid 82.
Page 131 of note 2 Ibid., 160-4.
Page 132 of note 1 Bede, op. cit., 115, 160.
Page 133 of note 1 Whitelock, , English Historical Documents, I, 435-9Google Scholar.
Page 133 of note 2 Ekwall, Dictionary of English Place-Names. English Place-Name Society, Place-names of Cumberland.
Page 133 of note 3 Eddius, op. cit., 122.
Page 134 of note 1 W. G. Collingwood, Northumbrian Crosses of the Pre-Norman Age,
Page 135 of note 1 C. H. Talbot, Anglo-Saxon Missionaries in Germany, 155.
Page 135 of note 2 D. Whitelock, op. cit., 438.
Page 138 of note 1 Two Lives of S. Cutbbert, ed. B. Colgravc, 85, 116.