Hunting, lib. iii.]
[** Bede, lib. ii. cap. 9.]
[*** Bede, lib. ii. cap. 9. W. Malms, lib. i. cap.
3.]
[**** Bede, lib. ii. cap. 13. Brompton, Higden,
lib. v.]
[***** M. West. p. 114. Chron. Sax. p. 29.]
[****** W. Malms, lib. i. cap. 3.]
[******* Bede, lib. ii, cap. 29.]
Osric, king of Deiri and Eanfrid of Bernicia, returned to paganism; and
the whole people seem to have returned with them; since Paullinus, who
was the first archbishop of York; and who had converted them, thought
proper to retire with Ethelburga, the queen dowager, into Kent. Both
these Northumbrian kings perished soon after, the first in battle
against Caedwalla, the Briton; the second by the treachery of that
prince. Oswald, the brother of Eanfrid, of the race of Bernicia, united
again the kingdom of Northumberland in the year 634, and restored
the Christian religion in his dominions. He gained a bloody and
well-disputed battle against Caedwalla; the last vigorous effort which
the Britons made against the Saxons. Oswald is much celebrated for his
sanctity and charity by the monkish historians; and they pretend that
his relics wrought miracles, particularly the curing of a sick horse,
which had approached the place of his interment.
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