POLITICAL HISTORY 



war, but the movement was revived in 1859, when trouble with France 

 was anticipated, and the lord-lieutenant was asked to superintend the formation 

 of volunteer companies to repel invasion. From that date to the present day 

 the movement has increased, and the volunteers are now an acknowledged 

 factor in home defence. Of the four volunteer battalions attached to the 

 Suffolk Regiment two are furnished by Suffolk, with head quarters at Ipswich 

 and Bury respectively, both possessing affiliated cadet corps from Suffolk 

 schools. There are also artillery volunteers at Ipswich and elsewhere. 



The early political history of East Anglia is rescued from obscurity by 

 the incursions of the Danes. The insular character of her geographical 

 position prevented the Angles from entering on a career of conquest such as 

 in turn tempted the other members of the Heptarchy. One of the royal 

 family of the Uffings, Redwald, who succeeded to the throne in 599, became 

 Bretwalda, but this was probably a case of personality over-riding environment. 

 At first even the christianizing of the kingdom was intermittent ; behind 

 the screen of forest and fen the Angles dropped back again into their old rites. 1 

 Feeble knees were confirmed by the establishment by King Sigebert about 

 636 of a school at Dunwich, and of a monastery at Cnobheresburg, 2 while in 

 673 Dunwich and Elmham became bishops' sees. Until 823 the kingdom 

 existed as a separate entity, but in that year Egbert of Wessex granted his 



Company Men 



Bury 205 



Bungay 1 80 



Carlford 70 



Lakenheath and Wangford . . 105 



Leiston and Theberton ... 67 



Melton 105 



Rendlesham 1 00 



Risbridge 3 1 5 



Saxham 65 



Kelsale and Carlton .... 59 



Hollesley Bay 350 



Hoxne 70 



Huntingfield 1 13 



Ipswich 388 



Babergh 350 



Hadleigh 160 



Stoke 57 



Stowe 120 



Blackburn 300 



Eye 100 



Fornham and Bury .... 80 



Thedwastre 80 



Beccles 120 



Benacre and Wrentham ... 180 



Southwold 120 



Yoxford 76 



Sibton 77 



Dunwich 73 



Framlingham 200 



Lowestoft 95 



Gorleston 91 



Saxmundham 71 



Woodbridge 157 



Colneys 330 



Tunstall 213 



Aldeburgh 58 



' Bede, Eccl. Hist. (Eng. Hist. Soc), 



+0 



Commanding Officer Did duty at 



Orbel Ray Oakes and Captain Benjafield — 



Major Peter Forster of Ditchingham . Lowestoft 



Sam Collett ; Robert Ginger ... — 



Robert Eagle of Brandon .... Bury 



Forman Josselyn — 



Joseph Stammers — 



Edward Crisp — 



Colonel Wm. Matthews — 



Thomas Mills — 



M. Rabett — 



Major W. W. Page — 



Wm. Barber — 



Wm. Philpot of Huntingfield ... — 



Major Neale — 



Colonel MacLean — 



Captain Leake — 



Captain Mannock - — 



Captain Tyrrell — 



Lt.-Colonel Webber — 



Captain Wayth — 



Captain Powell — 



Captain Blake — 



Captain South — 



Major Good — 



Captain May . — 



Captain Davy — 



Captain Jermyn — 



Captain Robinson — 



Major Stanford — 



Captain Arnold — 



Captain Bell — 



Captain Freeman — 



Major Purcell — 



Major Vernon — 



Captain Shepherd — 



Captain Winter — 



* Ibid. 198. 

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