Denique reverentissimus antistes Pecthelm, de quo in sequentibus suo loco dicendum est, qui cum successore eius Aldhelmo multo tempore adhuc diaconus sive monachus fuit, referre est solitus, quod in loco quo defunctus est, ob meritum sanctitatis eius multa sanitatum sint patrata miracula, hominesque provinciae illius solitos ablatum inde pulverem propter languentes in aquam mittere, atque huius gustum sive aspersionem multis sanitatem aegrotis et hominibus et pecoribus conferre: propter quod frequenti ablatione pulveris sacri, fossa sit ibidem facta non minima.
In brief, the most reverend prelate Pecthelm, of whom we must speak hereafter in his proper place, and who was a long time (being yet but a deacon and monk) with his successor Aldhelm, was wont to report that in the place where Heddi died, for the reward of his holiness, many miracles of healing were done, and that men of that province used commonly to carry away dust from thence and put it in water for such as were sick, and that the tasting and sprinkling of the same did bring cure to many sick, both men and beasts: by which occasion through often carrying away of the sacred dust a pit of no little size was made there.
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