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 clvi PEEFACE. The Church of Wilfrid. Re-establish- ment of Colum- ban Church. " monasterium in cunctis pene Septentrionalium Scot- " torum, et omnium Pictorum monasteriis non parvo " tempore arcem tenebat, regeuclisque eorum populis "praeerat." (Lib. in. c. iii.) When Oswy conquered the province of the Picts and added it to his domin- ions, the Church of Northumbria was still Columban, and therefore that conquest produced no change in its ecclesiastical relations ; but when the result of the CouncU of "Whitby led to the departure of the Columban Church from Northumbria, and to the establishment of the ecclesiastical party of which Wnfrid was the head, and which identified itself with Eome, its influence must have extended itself wherever the dominion of the Angles reached. The chief seat of this Church was removed from Lindis- farne to York, which shows that the Church of WUfrid considered itself the representative of the older Church at York ; and when Wilfrid himself was established as bishop in that city, we are ex- pressly told that his diocese included the province of the Picts. The influence of this party must have been stiU further increased when Trumwin was con- stituted a separate bishop over the province of the Picts. The defeat of Ecgfrid in 685, and the over- throw of the Anglic rule, terminated for a time, at least, that influence ; and any Anglic clergy, who had penetrated beyond the Forth, must have fol- lowed Trumwin in his hasty flight from Abercorn. The Columban clergy Avere no doubt completely re- established in their possession of the whole Pictish