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| Old Yeavering | Old Yeavering | Mr. H. Strong | On Sheet | A few old dilapidated houses so called, | ||
| Mr. A. Lowery | 19. 2 | used by the farm servants of Yeavering. | ||||
| Mr. Wm Short | The house marked P. is still pointed | |||||
| Bede’s Ecclesiastical Histy page 97. | out as the Palace of "Edwin & Ethelberga", | |||||
| King & Queen of Northumbria in 627. the | ||||||
| house has been repaired and is still occupied | ||||||
| the walls are over 6 feet in thickness. | ||||||
| According to Bede in the above year, "So | ||||||
| great was the fervor of the faith as is reported, | ||||||
| and the desire of the washing of Salvation among the | ||||||
| King Edwin’s Palace | King Edwin’s Palace | adopted in the Place. | On Sheet | Nation of the Northumbrians, that Paulinus (Roman | ||
| (Supposed site of) | (Supposed site of) | 19. 2 | Missionary) coming at a certain time with the King & | |||
| Queen, Edwin & Ethelberga to the royal Country Seat | ||||||
| which is called Adgefrin † Stayed there with them 36 days | ||||||
| fully occupied in catechising & baptizing: during which days from | ||||||
| morning till night, he did nothing else but instruct the people | ||||||
| resorting from all villages & places, in christs saving word; | ||||||
| and when instructed, he washed them with the water of absolution | ||||||
| in the river glen which is close by. This town under the | ||||||
| following Kings, was abandoned, and another was built | ||||||
| instead of it, at the place called Melrim" § | ||||||
| † Yeavering in Glendale, Nr. Wooler. | ||||||
| § Milfield | ||||||
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