Possible Clues:

• Not necessarily readable . . .
• As venerable as Adam?
• Old historian died in worker's embrace
• The Father of English History
• 'Adam ___'
• Ancient British historian
• "Venerable" saint
• Jarrow monk's contribution to rosary, say
• He wrote the eighth century Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation
• Monk - busy type over the course of day