Chapter

 1 Text|     glorifies the life of the abbot of the same name, he was
 2 Text|    strenuous and prudent, the abbot Hadrian. Perceiving also
 3 Text|    afterwards, Hadrian became abbot. ~He ruled the monastery
 4 Text|    church t of St. Peter, and abbot of the monastery of St.
 5 Text|  Ceolfrid, whom Benedict made abbot, had been his most zealous
 6 Text|   priest Easterwine to be the abbot of St. Peter's monastery,
 7 Text|       the Church at Rome; and Abbot Benedict the Great, himself,
 8 Text|     was the cousin of his own abbot Benedict; and yet such was
 9 Text|       the name and dignity of abbot, he retained the same spirit;
10 Text|       as he did before he was abbot; so that even after he was
11 Text|      passed in the dignity of abbot; and so, having thrown off
12 Text|    Benedict had made this man abbot of St Peter's, and Ceolfrid
13 Text|      St Peter's, and Ceolfrid abbot of St. Paul's, he not long
14 Text|  Easterwine, whom he had made abbot when he departed, and many
15 Text|    solicitous, in choosing an abbot, lest high birth, and not
16 Text|       of truth, should become abbot, and succeed me in its government.
17 Text|   beware, and never choose an abbot on account of his birth,
18 Text|      according to the rule of Abbot Benedict the Great, and
19 Text|       choose, let him be made abbot with the customary blessings,
20 Text|    mention that the venerable Abbot Benedict, to lessen the
21 Text|   Benedict sent for Ceolfrid, abbot of St. Paul's, dear to him
22 Text|  approbation of all, made him abbot of both monasteries; thinking
23 Text| chosen servant, the venerable Abbot Sigfrid, having passed through
24 Text|  alone, without any assistant abbot; the last eight in conjunction
25 Text| enjoyed with him the title of abbot, and assisted him in his
26 Text|       both monasteries, which Abbot Benedict had so actively
27 Text|   themselves a more efficient abbot out of their own number,
28 Text|       having chosen a younger abbot, might naturally, in con
29 Text|     to seek of the Lord a new abbot as soon as possible. This
30 Text|    They elected for their new abbot, Huetbert, who from his
31 Text|       orders. He was now made abbot; and immediately went with
32 Text|      his most humble servant, abbot of the monastery of the
33 Text|  venerable and beloved father Abbot Ceolfrid, the supporter
34 Text|       he took up the bones of Abbot Easterwine, which lay in
35 Text|   bones of his old preceptor, Abbot Sigfrid, which had been
36 Text|     five of which he had been abbot; or, to speak more correctly,