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 * Article title: Acca
 * Author: Creighton, Mandell
 * LEAD: ACCA (d. 740), fifth bishop of Hexham (709–732), was a native of Northumbria, and was brought up from childhood in the household of Bosa, who was made bishop of York in 678 in the place of Wilfrid.
 * LEAD: ACCA (d. 740), fifth bishop of Hexham (709–732), was a native of Northumbria, and was brought up from childhood in the household of Bosa, who was made bishop of York in 678 in the place of Wilfrid.
 * LEAD: ACCA (d. 740), fifth bishop of Hexham (709–732), was a native of Northumbria, and was brought up from childhood in the household of Bosa, who was made bishop of York in 678 in the place of Wilfrid.

General

 * Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica, book v. chaps. 19, 20
 * Eddius, Vita Wilfridi, in Gale's Scriptores, i. 53, &c.
 * Simeon of Durham, De Gestis Regum Anglorum, in Twysden, Decem Scriptores, 94, &c.
 * also ed. G. Hinde for Surtees Society, s. a. 740
 * Richard of Hexham, in Raine's Priory of Hexham (Surtees Society), i. 18
 * The best modern account is given in Raine's Preface, xxx–xxxiv

Cites

 * Bede, H. E. iv. 14–15
 * H. E. iii. 13
 * Eddius, ch. 54, 62, 22
 * "Bede mentions Acca as his authority for several things which he narrates in his ‘History’ (iii. 13, iv. 14)."
 * Twysden, 96, &c
 * Bedæ Op. ed. 1563, v. 175; also Raine's Priory of Hexham, i. 33
 * Richard of Hexham (p. 35) records a story&hellip;
 * Simeon, in Twysden, 101
 * "His miracles are recorded by Simeon of Durham, s. a. 740, and by Aelred, abbot of Rievaux (Raine, i. 184)."