278 DURHAM. 724 Aediluald^^, abbot of MailroSj who became bishop in 724; and having sat sixteen years, died in 740'^^, and was buried at Lindisfarne. 740 CvNUULF^fi succeeded to the bishopric in 740. He was deposed and imprisoned in Bamborough castle in 750'^^ by king Eadberht, and resigned his office in 7 80 '28 J or rather he delegated his powers to Hig- bald, who became his successor. He died four years afterwards ■-^. 780 HiGBALD, the coadjutor of Cynuulf, succeeded in 780^^^, and was consecrated in 781-^1. He died 25th May 802 3^ 802 Ecgberht33 was consecrated 12th June 802-^'^; if he sat eighteen years, as Turgot affirms 3^, he must have died in 821 ; but Florence of Worcester, the only one who mentions his death, places it in 8 1 9, and the con- secration of his successor in the same year. 819 Heathored'^^. He governed the see nine years'^", and died in 828-38. 24 Beda, lib. v. c. 12. Oethil- wald, (MS. Cott. Vesp. B. vi.) Adelwald, Mailr.; Aethelwoldus, Flor. Wigorn. ; Aethelwoldus et Ethehvoldus, Sim. Dunelm. et Hoved.; Ethel waldus, Malmes.; Ethehvoldus, Godwin. 2i> Sim. Dunelm. Gestae Regum ad an. 740. et Hist, de Dun. Eccl. cap. 12. The Saxon Chronicle says 737, Malmesbury 738, and Florence of Worcester 739. 2'i MS. Cotton. Vesp. B. vi. Cynevulf, Sim. Dunelm.; Cyn- wulf, Sax. Chron.; ('inewlfus, Malmes.; Kcnulfus, Godwin.; Cinewlfus et Kyniwlfus, Flor. Wigorn. 2'" Sim. Dunelm. 2f< Mailr. et Sax. Chron. Sim. Dunelm. et Hoved. ad ann. 780. 2y Sim. Dunelm. Sax. Chron. says 782. •"^0 Sax. Chron. Sim. Dunelm. et Mailr. ad ann. Florence says 31 Sim. Dunelm. 32 Sim. Dunelm. lib. ii. cc. 5. 9. et Ror. Wigorn. ad ann. 802. The Saxon Chronicle says that Hig- bald died 24th June 803; Matt. Westminster in 804. 33 Vesp. B. vi. Egbert, Flor. Wigorn. •^ Flor. Wigorn. The Saxon Chronicle says nth June 803; ])ut see note ^, p. 341, of Monu- menta. 3 At Egherto peractis in epi- scopatu decem et octo annis de- functo. Hist, de Dunelm. Eccl. lib. ii. c. 5. 3 Flor. Wigorn. 3" Hist, de Dunelm. Eccl. lib. ii. c. 5. 3tJ Flor. Wigorn.
