[263] Ep. vii. p. 11.
[264] Ep. xiv. See also Ep. xxviii. p. 40.
[265] Ep. viii. p. 12.
[266] Ep. lxxxv. p. 119.
[267] Ep. ix. p. 13.
[268] Ep. xxii. p. 36.
[269] Ep. xcix. p. 135.
[270] Ep. cxi. p. 153.
[271] The accusation is not a groundless one. Foxe, in his Acts and Monuments, warmly upbraids him; and Aikins in his Biog. Dict., has acted in a similar manner. But the best guides are his letters—they display his faults and his virtues too.
[272] This was in the year 731. Goodwin says he "sate 36 years, and died an. 767." He says, "This man by his owne wisedome, and the authority of his brother, amended greatly the state of his church and see. He procured the archiepiscopall pall to be restored to his churche againe, and erected a famous library at York, which he stored plentifully with an infinite number of excellent bookes." p. 441.