[108] Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, lib. v. cap. 12.
[109] Ibid. lib. v. c. 9. Bede further states that this anchoret subsequently went to Frisland to preach as a missionary there, but he reaped no fruit from his labours among his barbarous auditors. "Returning then (adds Bede) to the beloved place of his peregrination, he gave himself up to our Lord in his wonted repose; for since he could not be profitable to strangers by teaching them the faith, he took care to be the more useful to his own people by the example of his virtue."
[110] Published in 1845 by the Surtees Society, Libellus de Vita, etc., S. Godrici, p. 65, etc.
[111] Ibid. pp. 45 and 192.
[112] See Wordsworth's beautiful inscription—"For the spot where the hermitage stood on St. Herbert's island, Derwentwater."—Ed. of 1858, p. 258.—P.
[113] Ibid. footnote, p. 46.
[114] Bede's Vita Sancti Cuthberti, cap. 16, 28, 46, etc.
[115] De Beati Cuthberti Virtutibus, pp. 63 and 66.
[116] See, The Flowers of the Lives of the most renowned Saincts of the Three Kingdoms, by Hierome Porter, p. 321.
[117] Boece's History and Chronicles of Scotland, book ix. c. 17, or vol. ii. p. 98; Leslie's De Rebus Gestis Scotorum, lib. iv. p. 152; Dempster's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum, lib. ii. p. 122, or vol. i. p. 66.