quem comparandi ordinem ipse, dum adhuc viveret, Benedictus cum eodem rege Aldfrido taxaverat, sed priusquam complere potuisset obiit.
and this manner of procuring the land had been fixed by the estimation of Benedict, whilst he still lived, with the said king Aldfrid, but he died before he could complete it.
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