The Victoria History of the Counties of England Suffolk (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Victoria History of the Counties of England Suffolk In this sketch of the ecclesiastical history of the county of Suffolk, it must be remembered that the general story of the successive bishops of East Anglia, from the time when, under the Normans, the see was transferred to Norwich, belongs far more to the "Northfolk" than the ´Southfolk,´ and will therefore be more properly considered in the volumes that deal with Norfolk. The kingdom of East Anglia corresponded in its origin to the Norfolk and Suffolk of later days, together with that part of Cambridgeshire which lies to the east of the great Devil´s Dyke at Newmarket, as well as parts of the fen country up to Peterborough. Bede tells us that Ælla, king of the South Saxons, about 490, was the first overlord of the East Angles, and that their next ruler was Ceawlin, king of the West Saxons, about 500. To Ceawlin succeeded Ethelbert of Kent, the first Christian overlord of East Anglia. When Ethelbert died, ´twenty-one years after he had received the Faith,´ the overlordship passed into the hands of Redwald, who played such an important part in the history of Northumbria, and who had ruled in East Anglia, subservient to Ethelbert, during the latter´s lifetime. Edwin of Northumbria took refuge at the court of Redwald, which was probably then stationed at Rendlesham in Suffolk, and it was when he was in exile in this county that Edwin, according to Bede´s interesting and detailed narrative, experienced a singular vision which was the eventual means of bringing him to the Christian faith. Through Redwald´s assistance, Edwin, in 617, recovered his Northumbrian throne. When Edwin became a Christian, at a later date, Redwald was dead, and had been succeeded by his son Eorpwald, who had had in his youth a curious experience of semi-Christianity. His father, during one of his visits to Kent, had been baptized; but on his return his wife raised strong objections to his change of belief, with the result that, at the East Anglian court in Suffolk, Redwald had, from that time till the day of his death, ´in one and the same temple an altar for Christian sacrifice, and a little altar for the victims offered to demons.´ Aldwulf, who became king of the East Angles in 663, personally assured Bede that this temple of his great-uncle, with its Christian and Pagan altars side by side, was standing in his days, and that he had seen it when a boy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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