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BISHOPS. 277 see 12^ which was reerected in the year 678, and con- secrated by archbishop Theodore i^. He was driven from his see in 685 1^, and 685 CuDBERCT, or, as he is more commonly called, St.Cuth- BERT, became bishop of Lindisfarne, and was conse- crated at York on Easter Sunday, 26th March 685l^ by Theodore archbishop of Canterbury. He resigned his see in 687 1^, and 688 Eadberct17 became bishop of Lindisfarne in 688 1^. He died 6th March 698 ^ 9, and was buried at Lindis- farne ^0. 698 Eatferth^i succeeded in 698^2^ and died in yiji^a. His successor was 12 He also held the see of Hex- ham, formed at the same time, until the year 680, when Tun- berht became bishop of Hexham. Beda, hb. iv. c. 12. et Turgot, lib. i. c. 9. The following were bishops of Hexham from the first establishment of the see there un- til its union with Lindisfarne : Eata,Tunberht orTrumbert, Eata John, Wilfred, Acca,Friothuberht or Fruidbert, Alhmund or Alc- mund, Tilberht, Aethelberht, Heardred, Eanberht or Hean- berht, and Tidferth or Tilfred or 'lliiffrid. After the death of Tid- ferth, in 821, the bishopric of Hexham remained void, and the bishops of Lindisfarne adminis- tered to it. '•'* Beda, lib. iv. c. 12. '^ Ibid. lib. iv. c. 28. et lib. v. c. 2. Flor. Wigorn. '•'» Beda, lib. iv. c. 28. '^ Ibid. He died shortly after his resignation [20th March 687], and was buried at LindiHfarne. (Beda, lib. iv. c. 29.) In 698 his body was found uncornij)ted, (Bed. de Sex. /Etat. et Hist. Eccl. lib.iv. c. 30.) and was re- moved to Durham in 995. Flor. Wigom. 17 MS. Cott. Vesp. B. vi. et Tiber. B. v. Flor.Wigorn. Some MSS. of Florence call him Ean- berht, and Godwin Egbertus. 18 Bed. Hist. Eccl. lib.iv. c.29. 19 Flor.Wigorn. ad an. 698. 20 Bed. Hist. Eccl. lib. iv. c. 30. 21 MS. Cott. Vesp. B. d. Ti- ber. B. V. Flor. Wigom. Some MSS. of Florence call him Ead- frith, Eadferth, and Ead- frid. Simon of Durham also styles him Eadfrid. Malmes- bury names him Edfrid. God- win omits him; or rather consi- ders him as an alias of Ead- BERCT. He is also called Eg- frith by some writers. 22 Successit Eadberto in epi- scoi)atuin [Lindisfarnensis] vir Domini Eadfridus. Flor.Wigorn, ad an. 698, 2«* Flor. Wigorn. ad an. 721. Simeon (de Dunelmensi Eccle- sia, cap. 1 1.) says he sat twenty- two years.