Neither is it here to be omitted, that whatsoever broils did pass betwixt our Irish that were not subject to the See of Rome, and those others that were of the Roman communion: in the succeeding ages, they of the one side were esteemed to be Saints, as well as they of the other; Aidan for example and Finan, who were counted ringleaders of the Quartadeeiman party, as well as Wilfrid and Cuthbert, who were so violent against it. Yet now adays men are made to believe, that out of the communion of the Church of Rome nothing but Hell can be looked for; and that subjection to the Bishop of Rome, as to the visible Head of the Universal Church, is required as a matter necessary to salvation. Which if it may go currant for good Divinity: the case is like to go hard, not only, with thei twelve hundred ⟨p. 115⟩British Monks of Bangor, who were martyred in one day by Edelfride king of Northumberland (whom our Annals style by the name ofk the Saints;) but also with St. Aidan and St. Finan, who deserve to be honoured by the English nation with as venerable a remembrance, as (I do not say, Wilfrid and Cuthbert; but) Austin the Monk and his followers. For by the ministry ofl Aidan was the kingdom of Northumberland recovered from paganism: (whereunto belonged then, beside the shire of Northumberland and the lands beyond it unto Edinburgh, Frith, Cumberland also and Westmorland, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and the Bishopric of Durham:) and by the means ofm Finan, not only the Kingdom of the East-Saxons (which contained Essex, Middlesex, and half of Hertfordshire) regained, but also the large Kingdom of Mercia converted first unto Christianity; which comprehended under it, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Rutlandshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolneshire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Shropshire, Nottinghamshire, Cheshire, and the other half of Hertfordshire.
Neither is it here to be omitted, that whatsoever broyles did passe betwixt our Irish that were not subject to the See of Rome, and those others that were of the Romane communion: in the succeeding ages, they of the one side were esteemed to be Saints, as well as they of the other; Aidan for example and Finan, who were counted ringleaders of the Quartadeeiman party, as well as Wilfrid and Cuthbert, who were so violent against it. Yet now adayes men are made to beleeve, that out of the communion of the Church of Rome nothing but Hell can bee looked for; and that subjection to the Bishop of Rome, as to the visible Head of the Universall Church, is required as a matter necessary to salvation. Which if it may goe currant for good Divinity: the case is like to goe hard, not onely, with thei twelve hundred ⟨p. 115⟩British Monkes of Bangor, who were martyred in one day by Edelfride king of Northumberland (whom our Annals style by the name ofk the Saints;) but also with St. Aidan and St. Finan, who deserve to bee honoured by the English nation with as venerable a remembrance, as (I doe not say, Wilfrid and Cuthbert; but) Austin the Monke and his followers. For by the ministery ofl Aidan was the kingdome of Northumberland recovered from paganisme: (whereunto belonged then, beside the shire of Northumberland and the lands beyond it unto Edenborrow, Frith, Cumberland also and Westmorland, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and the Bishopricke of Durham:) and by the meanes ofm Finan, not onely the Kingdome of the East-Saxons (which contained Essex, Middlesex, and halfe of Hertfordshire) regained, but also the large Kingdome of Mercia converted first unto Christianity; which comprehended underit, Glocestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Rutlandshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolneshire, Huntingtonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Darbyshire, Shropshire, Nottinghamshire, Chesshire, and the other halfe of Hertfordshire.
- i[…] lib. 2. hist. cap. •.〈…〉 lib. 2. hist. cap. •.
- kAnn. Dom. 612. (vel 613.) Bellum Cairelegion, ubi Sancti occisi sunt. Amlt. Ulton. MS.Ann. Dom. 612. (vel 613.) Bellum Cairelegion, ubi Sancti occisi sunt. Amlt. Vlton. MS.
- lBed. lib. 3. hist. cap. 3. & 6.
- mIbid. cap. 21. 22. 24.
