The golden days of the early English church from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . the word *Orate orperhaps, more probably, the English equivalent Gebid fore. Two letters can still be traced in the secondline of the inscription, which, says Bishop Browne,are almost certainly p and r. These he expandsinto pro Tru. The rest of the inscription reads quite plainly— mberehct >I< sac ?!<alia ?!< signum Aefterhis breoderaysetae The whole would then read in English :— Pray for Trumbercht the sacerdos. Alia(erected) this monument for his brother. Sacerdos at this time in nearl
The golden days of the early English church from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . the word *Orate orperhaps, more probably, the English equivalent Gebid fore. Two letters can still be traced in the secondline of the inscription, which, says Bishop Browne,are almost certainly p and r. These he expandsinto pro Tru. The rest of the inscription reads quite plainly— mberehct >I< sac ?!<alia ?!< signum Aefterhis breoderaysetae The whole would then read in English :— Pray for Trumbercht the sacerdos. Alia(erected) this monument for his brother. Sacerdos at this time in nearly all cases meantBishop, and, as Dr. Browne says, no bishop atthis time, except our Trumberht, bears a name con-sistent with these letters, while the language of theinscription is also of the date.^ Cuthberht was only a bishop for about two years,and we have hardly any information about hisevangelical work, except at Carlisle, where he prob-ably felt he had a congenial sphere since the countrywas only recently occupied and settled by the ^ Browne, T/ieodore and Wilfrid^ i6i and Shaft of the Cross of Bishop [VoL III., facingfi. 32. i CUTHBERHTS INFLUENCE IN SCOTLAND 33 Anglians, while the King had given him a richestate there. Bede says he went thither especiallyto ordain some of his priests and to veil the was there, in fact, when Ecgfrid went on his un-fortunate expedition against the Picts, and there hegave the veil to his widowed Queen in a monas-tery founded by her sister/ His sphere of labours,however, extended beyond the diocese of Carlisle,and invites us to make a journey with him. It would seem that his missionary labours andhis direct influence extended over the whole northernpart of Ecgfrids dominions. It certainly includedthe Lothians, and almost certainly extended to theFirth of Forth, which was then the northern frontierof Northumbria on the eastern side of England, anddivided it from the land of the Picts. Ecgfrids direct dominations
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