Ecclesiastical History of Britain, by The Venerable Bede, Part 1
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The Death of Bead
The land on which bead was born was granted by Egfrit to Benedict Biscop, for the foundation of the monasteries. There was a bermeth that was founded in 674, Gero in 681 or 682. Bead himself tells us that he was in his 59th year, when he wrote the short autobiography at the end of the history. That work was finished in 731, and there seems to be no good reason to suppose that the autobiographical sketch was written at a later time. We may infer then that he was born in 673, that he was ordained Deacon in 691, and priest in 702. For his death, 7
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