Siquidem misit legatarios ad virum venerabilem Ceolfridum, abbatem monasterii beatorum apostolorum Petri et Pauli, quod est ad ostium Viuri amnis, et iuxta amnem Tinam, in loco qui vocatur In Gyruum, cui ipse post Benedictum, de quo supra diximus, gloriosissime praefuit; postulans ut exhortatorias sibi literas mitteret, quibus potentius confutare posset eos qui pascha non suo tempore observare praesumerent; simul et de tonsurae modo vel ratione qua clericos insigniri deceret: excepto quod etiam ipse in his non parva ex parte esset imbutus.
For he sent ambassadors to the venerable man, Ceolfrid, abbot of the monastery of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, situated at the mouth of the river Wear and nigh to the river Tyne, in the place called Jarrow, where he ruled with great honour after Benedict, of whom we have spoken before; desiring to receive from him letters of exhortation by the which he might more forcibly confute such as presumed to keep Easter out of his due time; as also to know of the fashion and manner of tonsure by which the clergy should be marked: not reckoning that he was himself too in great measure informed upon these matters.
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