Hist., lib. iv. c. 10.
31
On the Blackwater; there is no city there now, but numerous traces of an ancient settlement, and an old chapel marks the site, in the parish of Bradwell.
32
Lastingham, near Pickering, in Yorkshire.
33
Bede iii. 25.
34
"The Hermits," by the Rev. C. Kingsley. Macmillan, 1869, pp. 224, 239.
35
La Civilisation Chretienne chez les Francs. Paris, 1861, p. 41.
36
So related in one of the lives. The other exaggerates the incident, and says that in the night a poplar tree sprang up.
37
This tonsure consisted in shaving the whole head.
38
Theodoret, lib. i. c. 11.
39
Socrates, Eccl. Hist., lib. vi. c. 18.
40
Monk-Wearmouth on the north bank of the river.
41
Bede: Vitæ Abbt. in Wiramuth, c. 6.
42
This is Bede, who describes, further on, how the abbot and that little boy celebrated alone, and in great sadness, the whole psalms of the monastic service, with no little labour, until new monks arrived.
43
Not to be confused with Theosterictus, disciple of the abbot S. Nicetas, who writes this account.
44
Lib. I., c. 3, 4.
45
By David Camerarius, Hector Boece, and Condeus.
46
From Ken-tiern, chief lord.
47
Adamnan i. 15.
48
In viis Domini magna est gloria Domini, et via justorum facta est: et iter sanctorum præparatum est. Ibunt sancti de virtute in virtutem: videbitur Deus corum in Sion.
49
Near Lunen, on the river Lippe.
50
The narrative of S. Nilus is necessarily much condensed. I regret having to do this, as it is most touching in its entirety.
51
A much fuller account of the travels of B. Ordorico than I am able to give here may be read in MacFarlane's "Romance of Travel," II. c. 1. The most correct version of these travels is that given by Bollandus, Jan. T. 1, pp. 920-986, which MacFarlane does not seem to have seen.
52
For authorities for these statements, see Montalembert's Monks of the West, I. p. 315.
53
S. Jerome, Prœf. in Reg. S. Pachomii, § 6.
54
Pallad. Hist. Lausiaca, c. 7.
55