The golden days of the early English church from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . with gold and also with gems over-laid with silver, a treasure without deceit { madeof unalloyed metal).^ Symeon of Durham saysthat Eadfrids successor, the venerable Ethel wold {sic) ordered it to be ornamented with gold anddecked with gems, and that the work was carriedout by Billfrid the anchorite.^ Who was he ? Stubbs says that Billfrid is made a contemporaryof St. Balthere.^ Some of the relics of Balthere andBillfrid were put in St. Cuthberhts coffin.* Billfridis no doubt the Bilfrith presby
The golden days of the early English church from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . with gold and also with gems over-laid with silver, a treasure without deceit { madeof unalloyed metal).^ Symeon of Durham saysthat Eadfrids successor, the venerable Ethel wold {sic) ordered it to be ornamented with gold anddecked with gems, and that the work was carriedout by Billfrid the anchorite.^ Who was he ? Stubbs says that Billfrid is made a contemporaryof St. Balthere.^ Some of the relics of Balthere andBillfrid were put in St. Cuthberhts coffin.* Billfridis no doubt the Bilfrith presbyter mentionedamong the anchorites in the Liber Vitae at Durham,which also mentions a * Balthere of Durham tells us he lived the life of ananchorite at Tiningham and died in 757.^ Balthereis probably the same as Baldred in Bishop ForbesKalendars of the Scottish Church, 273 and says that his church at Tiningham had the * Thompson, op. cit. p. 16. ^ Symeon of Durham, , ii. 12. * Diet, of Chr. Biog., i- 3^- * Raine, Si. CiitJibeiht, 79, note. * Op. cit. ii, ch. 2,. A Similar Vack from thi-: Lindisfarne MS. [ l^o/. III., facing p. 118. BISHOP EADFRID 119 right of sanctuary, and that at Prestoune Kirk (sic)some places near the church are still known asSt. Baldreds well and Baldreds whill (a pool oreddy in the river). A rock which impeded thenavigation is said to have moved to the shore athis bidding. It is still called the toitrsha orscapha of St. Baldred. His cave is also shownon the coast near Aldhame.^ Both tradition andthe existence of a ruin on the Bass Rock, addsForbes, testify to the former habitation of anisland saint, who, known as Baldred or Balthere,was honoured in Scotland on the 6th of legend in the Aberdeen Breviary is to thateffect.^ Alcuin has a long notice of him in hispoem de Pontificis Ecclesiae Eboracensis^ in whichhe speaks of his living on the wild coast ofNorthumbria— Inter monstra maris, scopulosas inter et undas,Ut po
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