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[31] Avon.

[32] This should be "at Pionna," [Pen]. See Saxon Chronicle.

[33] Petherton.


Chap. VIII.—Of Wulfhere and Cenwulf,[*] and of the council held by the holy father Theodore.

A. 674. After one year, Wulfhere son of Penda, and Cenwalh[34] fought a battle among themselves in a place called Beadanhead [Bedwin].

A. 677. After three years a comet was seen.

A. 680. At the end of two years a council was held at Hethlege,[35] by the holy archbishop Theodore, to instruct the people in the true faith. In the course of the same year died Christ's servant, Hilda, abbess of the monastery called Streaneshalch [Whitby].

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