POLITICAL HISTORY 



war, but the movement was revived in 1859, when trouble wifh 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 



Bury 



Bungay 



Carlford 



Lakenheath and Wangford 

 Leiston and Theberton . 



Melton 



Rendlesham .... 



Risbridge 



Saxham 



Kelsale and Carlton 

 Hollesley Bay .... 



Hoxne ...... 



Huntingfield .... 



Ipswich 



Babergh 



Hadleigh 



Stoke 



Stowe 



Blackburn 



Eye 



Fornham and Bury . . 



Thedwastre 



Beccles 



Benacre and Wrentham . 



Southwold 



Yoxford 



Sibton 



Dunwich 



Framlingham .... 



Lowestoft 



Gorleston 



Saxmundham .... 

 Woodbridge .... 



Colneys 



Tunstall 



Aldeburgh . . . . . 



Men Commanding Officer 



205 Orbel Ray Oakes and Captain Benjafield 



1 80 Major Peter Forster of Ditchingham . 



70 Sam Collett ; Robert Ginger 



105 Robert Eagle of Brandon . . . . 



67 Forman Josselyn 



105 Joseph Stammers 



100 Edward Crisp 



3 1 5 Colonel Wm. Matthews 



65 Thomas Mills 



59 M. Rabett 



350 Major W. W. Page 



70 Wm. Barber 



113 Wm. Philpot of Huntingfield . . . 



388 Major Neale 



350 Colonel MacLean 



1 60 Captain Leake 



57 Captain Mannock 



1 20 Captain Tyrrell 



300 Lt.-Colonel Webber 



100 Captain Wayth 



80 Captain Powell 



80 Captain Blake 



1 20 Captain South 



1 80 Major Good 



1 20 Captain May 



76 Captain Davy 



77 Captain Jermyn 



73 Captain Robinson 



200 Major Stanford 



95 Captain Arnold 



91 Captain Bell 



71 Captain Freeman 



157 Major Purcell 



330 Major Vernon 



213 Captain Shepherd 



58 Captain Winter 



Did duty at 



Lowestoft 

 Bury 



1 Bede, Eccl. Hist. (Eng. Hist. Soc.), 140. 



163 



' Ibid. 198. 



