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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England: Book IV: IV. How Bishop Colman, having left Britain, built two monasteries in the country of the Scots; the

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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England, ed. by A.M. Sellar, [1907] IN the meantime, Colman, the Scottish bishop, departing from Britain,took along with him all the Scots whom he had gathered about him in the isle of Lindisfame, and also about thirty of the English nation, for both these companies had been trained in duties of the monastic life; and leaving some brothers in his church, he went first to the isle of Hii,whence he had been sent to preach the Word of God to the English nation.