Book IV

Chap. I. How when Deusdedit died, Wighard was sent to Rome to receive the episcopate; but he dying there, Theodore was ordained archbishop, and sent into Britain with the Abbot Hadrian. [664-669 A.D.] Chap. II. How Theodore visited all places; how the Churches of the English began to be instructed in the study of Holy Scripture, and in the Catholic truth; and how Putta was made bishop of the Church of Rochester in the room of Damianus. [669 A.D.] Chap. III. How the above-mentioned Ceadda was made Bishop of the province of Mercians. Of his life, death, and burial. [669 A.D.] Chap. IV. How Bishop Colman, having left Britain, built two monasteries in the country of the Scots; the one for the Scots, the other for the English whom he had taken along with him. [667 A.D.] Chap. V. Of the death of the kings Oswy and Egbert, and of the synod held at the place Herutford, in which Archbishop Theodore presided. [670-673 A.D.] Chap. VI. How Wynfrid being deposed, Sexwulf received his bishopric, and Earconwald was made bishop of the East Saxons. [675 A.D.] Chap. VII. How it was indicated by a light from heaven where the bodies of the nuns should be buried in the monastery of Berecingum. [675 A.D.?] Chap. VIII. How a little boy, dying in the same monastery, called upon a virgin that was to follow him; and how another nun, at the point of leaving her body, saw some small part of the future glory. [675 A.D.?] Chap. IX. Of the signs which were shown from Heaven when the mother of that community departed this life. [675 A.D.?] Chap. X. How a blind woman, praying in the burial-place of that monastery, was restored to her sight. [675 A.D.?] Chap. XI. How Sebbi, king of the same province, ended his life in a monastery. [694 A.D.] Chap. XII. How Haedde succeeded Leutherius in the bishopric of the West Saxons; how Cuichelm succeeded Putta in the bishopric of the church of Rochester, and was himself succeeded by Gebmund; and who were then bishops of the Northumbrians. [673-681 A.D.] Chap. XIII. How Bishop Wilfrid converted the province of the South Saxons to Christ. [681 A.D.] Chap. XIV. How a pestilence ceased through the intercession of King Oswald. [681-686 A.D.] Chap. XV. How King Caedwalla, king of the Gewissae, having slain Ethelwalch, wasted that Province with cruel slaughter and devastation. [685 A.D.] Chap. XVI. How the Isle of Wight received Christian inhabitants, and two royal youths of that island were killed immediately after Baptism. [686 A.D.] Chap. XVII. Of the Synod held in the plain of Haethfelth, Archbishop Theodore being president. [680 A.D.] Chap. XVIII. Of John, the precentor of the Apostolic see, who came into Britain to teach. [680 A.D.] Chap. XIX. How Queen Ethelthryth always preserved her virginity, and her body suffered no corruption in the grave. [660-696 A.D.] Chap. XX. A Hymn concerning her. Chap. XXI. How Bishop Theodore made peace between the kings Egfrid and Ethelred. [679 A.D.] Chap. XXII. How a certain captive’s chains fell off when Masses were sung for him. [679 A.D.] Chap. XXIII. Of the life and death of the Abbess Hilda. [614-680 A.D.] Chap. XXIV. That there was in her monastery a brother, on whom the gift of song was bestowed by Heaven. [680 A.D.] Chap. XXV. Of the vision that appeared to a certain man of God before the monastery of the city Coludi was burned down. Chap. XXVI. Of the death of the Kings Egfrid and Hlothere. [684-685 A.D.] Chap. XXVII. How Cuthbert, a man of God, was made bishop; and how he lived and taught whilst still in the monastic life. [685 A.D.] Chap. XXVIII. How the same St. Cuthbert, living the life of an Anchorite, by his prayers obtained a spring in a dry soil, and had a crop from seed sown by the labour of his hands out of season. [676 A.D.] Chap. XXIX. How this bishop foretold that his own death was at hand to the anchorite Herebert. [687 A.D.] Chap. XXX. How his body was found altogether uncorrupted after it had been buried eleven years; and how his successor in the bishopric departed this world not long after. [698 A.D.] Chap. XXXI. Of one that was cured of a palsy at his tomb. Chap. XXXII. Of one who was lately cured of a disease in his eye at the relics of St. Cuthbert.