"Monasticon Eboracense," p. 78, knowing no other authority.

"In the fifth year of the reign of King Henry II. after the conquest
of England by William, duke of Normandy, the Lord of Uglebardby,
then called William de Bruce, and the Lord of Sneton, called Ralph
de Perci, with a gentleman and a freeholder called Allatson, did on
the 16th day of October appoint to meet and hunt the wild boar, in a
certain wood or desert place belonging to the abbot of the monastery
of Whitby; the place's name is Eskdale-side; the abbot's name was
Sedman. Then these gentlemen being met, with their hounds and boar-
staves, in the place before-named, and there having found a great
wild boar, the hounds ran him well near about the chapel and
hermitage of Eskdale-side, where was a monk of Whitby, who was a
hermit. The boar being very sore, and very hotly pursued, and dead
run, took in at the chapel door, and there died: whereupon the
hermit shut the hounds out of the chapel, and kept himself within at
his meditations and prayers, the hounds standing at bay without.
The gentlemen in the thick of the wood, being put behind their game,
followed the cry of their hounds, and so came to the hermitage,
calling on the hermit, who opened the door and came forth, and
within they found the boar lying dead, for which the gentlemen in
very great fury (because their hounds were put from their game) did
most violently and cruelly run at the hermit with their boar-staves,
whereby he died soon after: thereupon the gentlemen, perceiving and
knowing that they were in peril of death, took sanctuary at
Scarborough. But at that time the abbot, being in very great favour
with King Henry, removed them out of the sanctuary, whereby they
came in danger of the law, and not to be privileged, but likely to
have the severity of the law, which was death. But the hermit,
being a holy and devout man, at the point of death sent for the