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THOMAS 11.<br />

and furnishes little that is noteworthy as to the<br />

concerns of the diocese. Two new stalls were<br />

founded at York, and a grant of privileges obtained<br />

for the church of Southwell, which was freed from<br />

certain claims on the part of the Archbishops. His<br />

greatest work was at Hexham. The church there<br />

appears to have belonged in turn to the Archbishops<br />

of York and the Bishops of Durham. The bishopric<br />

of Hexham had come to an end after the death of<br />

Tidferth, about 822, probably in consequence of the<br />

turbulent condition of the most northern part of<br />

Bernicia; but the monastery remained, under the<br />

government of a provost. Strangely enough, the<br />

office became an hereditary one, the son succeeding<br />

the father for several generations, a fact which<br />

corroborates other testimony that in the north of<br />

England marriage among the clergy of all ranks and<br />

orders was rather the rule than the exception. The<br />

prebend of Holme in York Minster had been<br />

attached to this office by Archbishop Thomas I.<br />

Thomas H. re-constituted Hexham altogether. He<br />

made it a house of Augustinian canons under the<br />

rule of a prior, giving them at the same time four<br />

vills, and a mill and fishery on the Tyne, together<br />

with other benefactions. The Archbishop's death<br />

took place on the 24th February, in 4.

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