| Bede is somewhat reticent about the career of Wilfrid, a contemporary and one of the most prominent clerics of his day. |
| Though the modern bishopric was not carved out of the York diocese until 1836, Ripon's early ecclesiastical history is inextricably associated with Wilfrid. |
| The accusation occurred in front of the bishop of Hexham, Wilfrid, who was present at a feast when some drunken monks made the accusation. |
| Wilfrid was spokesman for the visiting Frankish bishop Agilbert from Wessex, and his priest Agatho, main advocates for Rome. |
| They walked on silently, till Wilfrid remarked, that he wondered where gambier was. |
| An explanation of the origin of the name is that the Priest's Town refers to a priory set up by St Wilfrid near the Ribble's lowest ford. |
