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appearance of the devil to St. Pachomius under the guise of a beautiful woman. Cuthberga of Wimborne, Wessex, daughter of Kenred, king of the Mercians, and sister of Ina, is described as the virgin wife of Alfrid, king of Northumbria.

The Northumbrian saints are Paulinus, bishop of York till 633, to whose life is appended a narratio of Eufrosina, a maiden of Alexandria, who entered a monastery under the name of Smaragdus; "King Edwin, baptised 627, killed in the battle of Hatfield, 633 ; King Oswald, died 642," with a narratio bearing on the evils of drunkenness; King Oswiu, died 651, buried at Tynemouth, where his remains wrought many wonderful cures ; Abbess Hilda, of Whitby, died 680, in whose life her sisters, Hereswida and Bega, are mentioned ; Ebba, of Coldingham, died 683, with an account of the cruel conduct of the Danes towards her nuns ; Aidan of Hy, bishop of Lindisfarne, died 651, with a narratio dated 1093; "Chad, bishop of York from 664 to 669 and of Lichfield till 672, and his brother Cedd, the apostle of Mercia and Essex ; Wilfrid, bishop of York, with a narratio from Bede of the death of Hedda, bishop of the West Saxons in 707 ; Eata of Hexham ; Cuthbert of Lindisfarn ; John of Beverley, died 721, with a narratio from Bede of the epitaph of Csedwalla, king of the West Saxons ; Brithun, abbot of Beverley, with a narratio longer than the life ; " Benedict Biscop, the founder of Wearmouth in 674 and of Jarrowin 682 ; Abbot Esterwin, with a narratio of the con- version of Taisis meretrix ; Abbot Colfrid, with a narratio relating to St. Goar and Rusticus, archbishop of Treves ; Beda, with a narratio of the martyrdom of a virgin named Maria in the time of Hadrian; Guthlac, died 714, with a long narratio from the Legenda Aurea. The life of Guthlac is abridged from that by Peter of Blois, which Dr. Horstman prints at length from a MS. belonging to Trinity College, Dublin, in the Appendix. A separate life of Bertellinus, disciple of Guthlac, is added in De Worde's edition. Egbert, died 729, has for narratio the illustration of the Trinity from three drops of water forming one.

The Saxon saints of the eighth century include " Willibrord of Northumbria, the apostle of the Frisians, bishop of Utrecht 696, died 739 ; " Hewald the white and Hewald the black, martyred in Westfalia, Odulf and his brother Botulf, who gives his name to Boston in Lincolnshire, where he was abbot, and indirectly to Boston in the United States of America, of which he never