" The Spaniard drew his sword, and, with the assistance of the Earl of Pembroke, kept Cuthbert at bay until they were both able to slip through the secret door.

Needs must I wrestle with the good Saint Cuthbert in the matter.

Alfred, meantime, had turned to his reading, over which he fell asleep, and dreamt that St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne stood by him, and told him it was he who had been his guest, and that God had seen his afflictions and those of his people, which were now about to end, in token whereof his people would return that day from their expedition with a great take of fish.

2. The visit of King Egfrid and Bishop Trumwine to St. Cuthbert on Fame.

Accordingly, the clergy called upon all the people of St. Cuthbert from the Tees to the Tweedall those, that is, who dwelt on lands granted by various donors to the church of St. Cuthbertto rise and march northward to fight for their lands.

In the reign of Knut the Dane, the Scots obtained the whole of Lothian from the Saxon earl of Northumberland, and the vast possessions of St. Cuthbert beyond the Tweed seemed about to be lost to the church of Durham.

A child who had heard of St. Cuthbert as a shepherd boy being carried home from the hillside when hurt, by a man on a white horse, repeated the story in her own words, "and he thought it was a fairy of God's sent to help him.