Inter quae notandum, quod ea quae de sanctissimo patre et antistite Cudbercto vel in hoc volumine vel in libello Gestorum ipsius conscripsi, partim ex eis quae de illo prius a fratribus ecclesiae Lindisfarnensis scripta reperi, adsumpsi simpliciter fidem historiae quam legebam accommodans, partim vero ea quae certissima fidelium virorum adtestatione per me ipse cognoscere potui sollerter adiicere curavi.
Among which you shall note that such things as I have wrote of the most holy father and bishop Cuthbert either in this book, either in the treatise that I have made of his life and acts, I have taken partly out of those things which I found before written of him by the brothers of the church of Lindisfarne, following simply the faith of the history which I read; but partly also have been careful to add skilfully thereunto such things as I could learn myself by the sure testimony of men of good credit.
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