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" Cuthbert, of blessed memory, who had been lately ordained bishop, the enemy made show as if they fled, and the king was drawn into the straits of inaccessible mountains, and slain, with the greatest part of his forces, on the 20th of May, in the fortieth... "
Yorkshire; or, Original delineations ... of that county - Page 33
by John Bigland - 1815
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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations ..., Volume 23

John Britton, John Hodgson - 1812 - 1036 pages
...perished, • " la iu-.nh . Scotorum ob studiuin literarum exulabat." Bede, Vita S. Cuthb. • Fished, in the fortieth year of his age, and the fifteenth of his feign. Egfrid dying without issue, the Northumbrians recalled Alfred from Ireland, where he had spent...
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Annals of the Caledonians, Picts, and Scots: And of Strathclyde ..., Volume 1

Joseph Ritson - 1828 - 280 pages
...inaccessible mountains, and, with the greatest part of the forces which he had brought with him, cut off, in the fortieth year of his age, and the fifteenth of his reign, on the thirteenth of the calends of January : from which time the hope and valour of the English realm...
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Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Volume 2

Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist Episcopal Church. Conferences - 1840 - 708 pages
...the year 1788, and departed this life July 15, 1828, at Mercersburg, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in the fortieth year of his age, and the fifteenth of his ministry. Brother MinshaWs aim was to glorify God, and find his way to heaven, and that aim be steadily...
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The Complete Works of Venerable Bede: Ecclesiastical history

Saint Bede (the Venerable) - 1843 - 452 pages
...straits of inaccessible mountains, and slain, with the greatest part of his forces, on the 20th of May, in the fortieth year of his age, and the fifteenth of his reign. His friends, as has been said, advised him not to engage in this war ; but he having the year before...
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The complete works of the venerable Bede, accompanied by a new Engl. tr. of ...

Bede (the venerable.) - 1843 - 448 pages
...straits of inaccessible mountains, and slain, with the greatest part of his forces, on the 20th of May, in the fortieth year of his age, and the fifteenth of his reign. His friends, as has been said, advised him not to engage in this war ; but he having the year before...
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The Church Historians of England, Volume 1, Page 2

1853 - 440 pages
...part of the forces which he had taken with him, on the thirteenth of the kalends of June [20th May], in the fortieth year of his age, and the fifteenth of his reign. His friends, as I have said, advised him not to engage in this war ; but he having the year before...
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A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 1

George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 530 pages
...son of Penda; and he was himself at last slain in battle, while carrying on a war against the Picts, in the fortieth year of his age and the fifteenth of his reign. After his death his subjects raised to the throne, Alfred, the natural son of his father Oswy; and...
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The historical works of the venerable Bede, tr. with a preface and notes by ...

Bede (the venerable.) - 1853 - 488 pages
...part of the forces which he had taken with him, on the thirteenth of the kalends of June [20th May], in the fortieth year of his age, and the fifteenth of his reign. His friends, as I have said, advised him not to engage in this war ; but he having the year before...
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The Battles and Battle Fields of Yorkshire: From the Earliest Times to the ...

William Grainge - 1854 - 230 pages
...length, to open for himself a passage, he was obliged to hazard an unequal battle, in which he perished, in the fortieth year of his age and the fifteenth of his reign. It would be both tedious and unnecesssary to follow closely the succession of Northumbrian kings ;...
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The Church Historians of England: pt. 1. The chronicles of John and Richard ...

1856 - 420 pages
...the troops which he had taken with him, upon the thirteenth of the kalends of June [20th May], being in the fortieth year of his age, and the fifteenth of his reign. Egfrid was succeeded in his kingdom by Alfrid, a man admirably skilled in the Scriptures, who is said to have...
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