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oeca8ional vi8it8 to di8 native place, lie commenced tde foundation ok tdi8 mona8ter)/'
^vdied wa8 completed b)/ di8 brotder O)/nebil, a^reeabl)/ to tde di8eipline ok Din-
di8karne. 4 odn ok ^inemoutd place8 tdi8 foundation in tde )/ear 648,'^ but it 866M8
from Dede to dave been a kew )/ear8 8ub86^u6ntl)/ to tdat time. L^dop Oedd died
dere in tde )/ear 664, during a mortality, wdicd proved fatal al8O to man)/ ok di8
follower. He wa8 at 6r8t buried out8ide tde mona8ter)/, but " in proee88 ok time,"
sa)/8 Dede, " a edured ok 8tone wa8 built in tde mona8terv, in donour ok tde dieted
mother ok Ood, and di8 bod)/ wa8 interred in tde 8ame, on tlie ri^dt dand ok tire
altar."°o Drom tdi8 pa88a^e it ma)/ de 8uppO8ed tdat tde dr8t ednred wa8 ok wood ;
at wdat period it wa8 rebuilt witd 8tone i8 uncertain, )/et it mu8t dave been previ-
ou8l)/ to tde time ok Dede'8 compiling di8 di8tor)/ in tde earl)/ part ok tde ei^dtd
eentur)/. Di8dop Oedd wa8 8ueceeded dere b)/ di8 brotder Oeadda, or Odad, wdo
in tde ad8enee ok Wilfrid wa8 eon8eerated in tde 8ee ok Hd, wdicd, in about
tdree )/ear8, de re8iAned to tde latter prelate, and retired to or
a8 tdi8 place appear8 to dave been tden called. He wa8 8ub8eciuentl)/
(anno 669) made Di8dop ok lbicddeld, in wdicd eit)/ de died, and wa8 buried in
Nared, 672. l^otdinZ' kurtder appear8 to be recorded ok tde di8tor)/ ok Da8tin^dam
till after tde Borman conc^ue8t, but it i8 8upp08ed to dave been " eompletel)/ ruined
in tde Dani8d war8," between 867 and 870, wden tde wdole ok l^ortdumbria wa8
deva8tated?' " 4^de Dane8," according to 8imeon ok Durdam, " reduced it8
cdurcde8 and mona8terie8 to a8de8. Odri8tianit)/ wa8 almo8t extinct: ver)/ few
edurcde8 were rebuilt, and tdo86 onl)/ witd durdle8 and 8traw, but no mona8terie8
were re-founded for almo8t two dundred )/ear8 after."
In DuAdale'8 account ok 8t. Nar)/'8 ^bbe)/, at ^orlr, it i8 8tated from tde nar-
rative ok 8tepden, tde 6r8t abbot, tdat tde 8aid 8tepden became a mond ok Wditb)/
(wdicd i8 on tde eastern coa8t ok ^orlr8dire, and witdin a few mile8 ok Da8t-
inodam,) in 1078, wdere de 8oon akter 8ueceeded Denkord, a8 abbot; but dndinA
di8 mona8ter)/ exp08ed to pirate8 and robbery a8 well a8 oppre88ed b)/ ids lord
ok tde fee (William de Derci), de be80UAdt tde dinA to permit tde removal ok di8
68tabli8dment to wdicd wa8 tden a part ok tde ro)/al deme8ne, tde
Vide Idist. N8. dob linornntbonsis in Libi. Lodi. lib. xvii. enp. 153.
20 " ()ui priino c^nidoin toris sopnltns ost, toinporo nntoni procodonto, in inonnsterio occlosin ost bonorom
bontss Lei Oonotricisdo Inpido Inctn, st in ibn corpus ipsius nd doxtrnin nltnris roeonditnm."
OuAdnIe's " Non. ^n§1." vol. i. p. 343, Onley's edit.
rr Vido " vscom Script." OoII. 206.

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