In the year of our Lord 678, which is the eighth of the reign of Egfrid, in the month of August, appeared a star, called a comet, which continued for three months, rising in the morning, and sending forth, as it were, a tall pillar of radiant flame. The same year a dissension broke out between King Egfrid and the most reverend prelate, Wilfrid, who was driven from his see,(599) and two bishops substituted for him, to preside over the nation of the Northumbrians,(600) namely, Bosa,(601) to govern the province of the Deiri; and Eata(602) that of the Bernicians; the former having his episcopal see in the city of York, the latter either in the church of Hagustald, or of Lindisfarne; both of them promoted to the episcopal dignity from a community of monks. With them also Eadhaed(603) was ordained bishop for the province of Lindsey, which King Egfrid had but newly acquired, having defeated Wulfhere and put him to flight;(604) and this was the first bishop of its own which that province had; the second was Ethelwin;(605) the third Edgar;(606) the fourth Cynibert,(607) who is there at present. Before Eadhaed, Sexwulf(608) was bishop as well of that province as of the Mercians and Midland Angles; so that, when expelled from Lindsey, he continued in the government of those provinces. Eadhaed, Bosa, and Eata, were ordained at York by archbishop Theodore;(609) who also, three years after the departure of Wilfrid, added two bishops to their number: Tunbert,(610) appointed to the church of Hagustald, Eata still continuing in that of Lindisfarne; and Trumwine(611) to the province of the Picts, which at that time was subject to English rule. Eadhaed returning from Lindsey, because Ethelred had recovered that province,(612) was placed by Theodore over the church of Ripon.(613) Chap. XIII. How Bishop Wilfrid converted the province of the South Saxons to Christ. [681 A.D.]