Tunc cessante non pauco tempore episcopatu, missus est Romam ab ipso simul et a rege Nordanhymbrorum Osuio, ut praecedente libro paucis diximus, Vighard presbyter, vir in ecclesiasticis disciplinis doctissimus, de genere Anglorum, petentibus hunc ecclesiae Anglorum archiepiscopum ordinari: missis pariter apostolico papae donariis, et aureis atque argenteis vasis non paucis.
At that time, the bishopric being vacant a great while, Wighard, priest, a man well learned in the disciplines of the Church, an Englishman born, was sent to Rome by Egbert as well as by Oswy king of the Northumbrians (as we have briefly mentioned in the foregoing book), they being desirous for him to be ordained archbishop of the Church of the English: and at the same time presents were sent to the apostolic pope, of great store of plate, both silver and gold.
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