The expression by Bede for the stone coffin is _arca_, and for the shrine, _theca_ in the _Ecc. Hist._; and in the _Vita S. Cudbercti_, _Sarcophagus_ and _theca_ are used. Footnote 417: Bede, _Hist. Ec._, B. v. c. 15. The expression is, ‘Nonnulla etiam de Brettonibus in Britannia,’ and Bede uses a similar expression when he says that a part of the Britons recovered their freedom in 655. Footnote 418: Sedulius, Episcopus Britanniæ de genere Scottorum, huic constituto a nobis promulgato subscripsi.—Haddan and Stubbs’ _Councils_, vol. ii. p. 7. Footnote 419: Bede, _Hist. Ec._, B. iv. c. 29; B. v. c. 19; Eddi, c. 43. Footnote 420: _Vit. S. Cud._, cap. 40. Footnote 421: Bede, _Hist. Ec._, B. v. c. 19; Eddi, c. 44. Footnote 422: Bede, _Hist. Ec._, B. v. c. 19; Eddi, _Vit. S. Wilf._, c. 54. Footnote 423: Bede, _Hist. Ec._, B. v. c. 20. Footnote 424: In the _Liber de Sanctis Ecclesiæ Hagustaldensis et eorum miraculis_ there is this statement—‘Ipsa insuper ecclesia pretiosis decorata ornamentis et _Sancti Andreæ_ aliorumque sanctorum ditata _reliquiis_ tam advenientium quam inhabitantium devotionem adauxit.’—Mabillon, _A.SS._, sec. iii. part i. p. 204. Footnote 425: Bede, _Hist. Ec._, B. v. cap. 23. Footnote 426: Eodem anno (DCCLVI.) Balthere anachorita viam sanctorum patrum est secutus, migrando ad Eum Qui se reformavit ad imaginem Filii Sui.—Sim. Dun., _Hist. Regum, ad an._ 756. Footnote 427: _Scotichron._, B. iii. c. 29. Alcuin, in his poem _De Pontificibus et Sanctis Ecclesiæ Eboracensis_, has the following lines, obviously referring to the Bass, under the head of ‘Nota. Baltheri Anachoretæ res gestæ’:— Est locus undoso circumdatus undique ponto, Rupibus horrendis prærupto et margine septus, In quo belli potens terreno in corpore miles Sæpius aërias vincebat Balthere turmas, etc. Gale, _Scriptores_, xv. p. 726. Footnote 428: Et illa terra ultra Tweoda ab illo loco ubi oritur fluvius Edre ab aquilone, usque ad illum locum ubi cadit in Tweoda, et tota terra quæ jacet inter istum fluvium Edre et alterum fluvium, qui vocatur Leder, versus occidentem; et tota terra quæ jacet ab orientali parte istius aquæ, quæ vocatur Leder, usque ad illum locum ubi cadit in fluvium Tweoda versus austrum; et tota terra quæ pertinet ad monasterium Sancti Balthere, quod vocatur Tinningaham a Lombormore usque ad Escemathe.—Sim. Dun., _Opera_ (Surtees ed.), p. 140. Footnote 429: