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Danish invasions the see of Hexham came to an end, the diocese was re-annexed to that of Lindisfarne, and the bishop removed to chester-le-street, whence, in a.d. 995, the see was transferred to Durham. Soon after this the Lothians, which had not perhaps occupied much of the attention of the bishops at chester-le-street, were ceded to Scotland, and came under the rule of the Scottish bishops. The see of Carlisle was founded in the twelfth century, and thus the diocese at last became nearly what it now is.
It is well known that during at least the latter part of the time of the Roman Occupation, there was a Christian Church in Britain but it seems to have been chiefly confined to the Roman settlements, and though there are abundant traces of the Roman sway in the counties of Durham and Northumberland, in the remains of roads, of numerous encampments, and notably of the great wall which reached from the estuary of the Tyne to the Solway Frith, yet there is no reason to believe that the Romans ever made any permanent settlement to the north of the Tees. It is vain, therefore, to Inquire after any traces of Chris tianity before the anglo-saxon conquest.
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