ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



do know that they suffered considerably, and that the almost immediate effect of the Danish 

 revolution was that the East Anglian Episcopate was very seriously impoverished. Possibly during 

 the time when our record fails to give us even the names of any bishops, episcopal functions 

 may have been discharged by some bishop of another see, as in the cases of Deodred, who held 

 the see of Elmham with the bishopric of London in the tenth century, or of Stigand, who held it 

 with the archbishopric of Canterbury, and of Grimketel, who again held it with the bishopric of 

 Selsey in the nth. In any case, though, we hear of no great cathedral or important bishop's house 

 in East Anglia, nor till quite the end of this period, or of anybody, whether of monks or canons 

 associated with the bishop as an organized council of assessors, helping him in the discipline and 

 administration of the diocese ; ^ it is nevertheless manifest that in the nth century the bishop of 

 Elmham was a prelate with a large revenue and considerable patronage at his disposal, and occupy- 

 ing a position eagerly coveted by unscrupulous ecclesiastics, not too nice in the means which they 

 resorted to for securing to themselves so important a piece of preferment. 



APPENDIX NO. Ill 



ECCLESIASTICAL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY 



Felix was the first bishop of East Anglia, and Bede in his ecclesiastical history says that in 

 630 or 636 he established a cathedral and palace at Seham or Soham in Cambridgeshire.^ His 

 diocese would then consist of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire. The see was almost imme- 

 diately removed to Dunmoc (Dunwich) in Suffolk by Felix. After the resignation of Bishop Bisi, 

 the fourth bishop, about 673, the diocese was divided under two bishops, one bishop having his see 

 at Dunwich, and the other at Elmham. Bartholomew Cotton, in giving a list of the bishops of 

 Elmham and bishops of Dunwich from 673 to 785, calls them the two bishops of the East 

 Angles.' 



In the time of Egbert the bishops had been so much impoverished by the incursions of 

 Ludecanus, king of the Mercians, that the division of the bishopric of East Anglia into halves, or 

 a northern and a southern bishopric, ceased, and one bishopric was made out of the two, having its 

 seat at Elmham,^ and consisting of the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and part of Cambridgeshire. 

 Herfast, bishop of the East Angles, translated the see to Thetford,' about 1075 ; and Herbert de 

 Losinga removed it to Norwich in 1093, in consequence of the determination of a council held by 

 Archbishop Lanfranc that all bishops' sees should be placed in the most eminent towns of their 

 diocese.^ 



Under the year 1 121 Bartholomew Cotton states that the bishopric of Norwich consisted of 

 four archdeaconries and forty-five deaneries ; the archdeaconry of Norwich with twelve deaneries ; 

 of Norfolk with twelve deaneries ; of Suffolk with thirteen deaneries ; and of Sudbury with eight 

 deaneries. He gives the deaneries in Norfolk as : 



In the Archdeaconry of Norwich — 



Norwycum vel Taverham Holt Brekles 



Blafeud Walsingham ' Lenniam 



Ingwrthe Toftes Teford 



Sparham Brisele Fleg 



In the Archdeaconry of Norfolk — 



Reppes Brok Fincham 



Humilierd Redenhale Hecham 



Depwade Rokelund Dunham 



Waxtonesham Kenewiche Hengham 



' The will of Bishop ^Ifric, however, proves that there was a body of priests at Elmham, who must have 

 stood to the bishops in the relation of a chapter, probably oi secular canons, and concerning whom in the Synod 

 of Celchyth, it was advised or enacted ' ut Episcopi diligent! cura provideant quo omnes canonici ui canonice 

 vivants' (see Hadden & Stubbs, vol. iii, p. 450, s. 4). Mr. Hunt has some Taluable remarks on this subject 

 in his Hist, of the Engl. Ch. to the Norm. Conq. 239. 



' Hist. Eccl. ii, 15. 



' De Episcopis Norviicensibus (Rolls Ser.), 387. * Ibid. 388. ' Ibid. 389. 



* Taylor, InJex Monasticus, xxix. 



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