 In 1310 "God worked many miracles by the prayers and merits of St Bega...to the edification of all the people with many eye-witnesses".In 1313 "A certain Irish boy received his sight in the chapel of St Bega through the merits and prayers of the said virgin, all the community seeing it".The name of the village "Kirkeby Becok" used in the charters of St Bees Priory from the times of Henry II and Richard I, and the phraseology of the early charters indicates a pre-Norman church at St Bees dedicated to St Bega.