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OSWY'S remorse.—SCOTIC CHURCH. 37
had retired to another abode at Tadcaster," which
may probably be identified with Healaugh (Heiu's
laig or territory), about three miles north of that town.
Hilda's government of those who placed themselves
under her rule, was based upon the wise and holy
counsels she had received from many learned men,
but to none did she owe so much as to the saintly
bishop of Lindisfarne, who loved her as a daughter,
and was never weary of giving her instructions for her
guidance. The seed which he sowed fell upon no
barren or unfruitful soil.
The murder of Oswin soon avenged itself in the
remorseful feelings which were awakened in the
breast of Oswy. He had married Eanfleda, the
daughter of Edwin and cousin of his victim. Her
reproaches appear to have roused in him some feeling
of repentance, and at her entreaty a monastery
was founded at the place where Oswin was slain, and
placed under the government of Trumhere, a kinsman
of the latter, and a priest " of Scotic training
and ordination," to the end that prayers might be
offered in this house of Gilling alike for the souls of
the murdered prince and of him who had caused him
to be slain. The body of Oswin was buried at Tynemouth,
where a chapel had already been erected, and
where a monastery was not long afterwards founded.
He was afterwards canonised as St. Oswin.
Oswy, like his brothers, had received his religious
training in the monastery of lona. The Scotic
ecclesiastics who had been his teachers held views as
regarded certain matters of discipline which were
vehemently opposed by those whose Christianity was