Solebat autem idem vir Domini, cum apud Orientales Saxones episcopatus officio fungeretur, saepius etiam suam, id est, Nordanhymbrorum provinciam exhortandi gratia revisere: quem cum Oidiluald filius Osualdi regis, qui in Derorum partibus regnum habebat, virum sanctum et sapientem, probumque moribus videret, postulavit eum possessionem terrae aliquam a se ad construendum monasterium accipere, in quo ipse rex et frequentius ad deprecandum Dominum verbumque audiendum advenire, et defunctus sepeliri deberet.
Now the same man of the Lord, in performing the duty of his bishopric among the East Saxons, used also oftentimes to visit again his own country, that is to say, the province of the Northumbrians for the sake of exhortation: whom, when Ethelwald, son to king Oswald, who reigned in the coasts of the Derans, saw to be a holy, wise and virtuous man, he required him to take of his gift a piece of ground towards the building of a monastery wherein the king himself should have to resort to pray to the Lord and hear the word, and be buried when he died.
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