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ONe yéere after the resignation of Saint Cutbert, the church of Lindisfarne was without a Bishop, Edbert was then chosen to succeed him. He couered his Ca∣thedrall church with lead; not onely the roofe (which before was thatched with réede) but the walles also. He sate tenne yéeres, and dying May the 6. 698. was buried beside, or ra∣ther vnder Saint Cutbert his predecessor, whose body the monkes had now placed in a shyrne aboue the pauement of the church.