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Title: The golden days of the early English church from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Howorth, Henry H. (Henry Hoyle), Sir, 1842-1923
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Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Cross of Hilditiiryth, or St. Hilda. (Vol. III., facing p. i88.
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Cross of IIildegyth. (Jol III., facing p. i83. APPENDIX I 189 did not stay there long, however: twelve months later she wassummoned home again to Northumbria by St. Aidan. Thereshe accepted the gift of a piece of land sufficient to maintain afamily. This is called a hiwscipe (and not, as usual, a hide) inthe Anglo-Saxon translation of Bede. She lived a secludedlife for a year with some companions, and, as we have seen,moved to Hartlepool when Heiu went to Tadcaster. There shebegan to put things in order and to introduce a Rule. She hadthe help of learned men, and was frequently visited by BishopAidan.^ In the year 653, while she was at Hartlepool, King Oswy,who had dedicated his little daughter ^Ifleda (then only a yearold) to God, in case he should defeat Penda in the battle ofthe Winwaed, put the latter in charge of Hilda, who thus becameher foster-mother.2 At the same time he made over to the Churchtwelve small portions of land (duodecim possessiunculis errartum^called twelve bocla

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