XVIII. CHAP.* 1.1
1. The death of Saint Trumwin Bishop of the Picts.
2. Also of S. Baru•• a Hermite.
3. &c. And of S. Hildelida Abbesse.
1. IN the year of Grace seaven hundred is recorded the death of S. Trumwin B. of the Picts:* 1.2 who in the revolt of that Nation from the Northumbers was driven from thēce & retired to the Monastery of Religious Virgins at Streneshalck, where he lived fifteen years with some few companions in Monasticall rigour, both to the good of his own soule, and the benefit of many other, and was with due honour buried there in the Church of S. Peter. Many centuries of years after, his Sacred Body was found and translated to a more honourable place, together with the Bodies of severall other Saints reposing there Concerning which William of Malmsbury thus writes,* 1.3 At Streneshalck, now called Whitby, in the Qu••re of the Church belonging t•• Religious Virgins, which is famous for the Monu∣ments of Holy Bishops and glorious Kings, the in∣dustry of certain devout men hath, as it were, re∣stored to life the slumbring ashes of severall per∣sons: For not long since there were found and trans∣lated to a more eminent place the Bodies of many Saints, particularly of S. Trumwin Bishop of the Picts,* 1.4 &c. His name is commemorated a∣mong Saints in our Martyrologe on the tenth of February.
2. The same year likewise is assigned to the death of S. Baruck a Hermite, whose me••mory is celebrated in the Province of the Silures and region of Glamorgan. He lyes buried in the Isle of Barry, which took its name from him: Concerning which we read this testimony in Camden,* 1.5 The most outward Isle there is called Barry, from Baruck a Holy man there buried: Who as he gave his Name to the Island, so did the Island give a Sirname to the Lords of it: For the Noble family of the Viscounts of Barry in Ireland received their originall from thence. In our Martyrologe this Holy Heremit Baruck is said to have sprung from the Noble Blood of the Brittains, and that en∣tring into a solitary strict course of life, he at this time attained to a life immortall.
3. We will conclude this year, which con∣cludes the seaventh Century of our History, with celebrating the Memory of S. Hildeli∣da, who in the Monastery of Berking built by S. Erconwald for his Sister Edilburga,* 1.6 as Saint Beda testifies, succeeded her in the Office of Ab∣besse, and for the space of twenty four years gover∣ned the same in a constant observance of Regular Disciplin, withall carefully providing all things necessary for the subsistence of the Religious Vir∣gins.