-AMEPTARCHY. 
» fays 
enemies as thofe who intend to 
fight againtt us.” And he immediately fent a detachment, 
fuffered only 50 to se 22 with 
er fur- 
matte 
a building fo extenfive, that there was a mile’s diftance from 
one gate of it to another; and it contained 2100 monks, 
who are faid to have been maintained there by their own 
labour. See Banaor. 
Younz Edwin, who had been unjuftly difpoffeffed of the 
crown of Deira, and who wandered from place to place in 
order to efeape the hottile defigns of Adelfrid, found pro- 
tection at laft in the court of 
a learned bifhop, along with her ; and befides 
toleration for the exercife of her own religi 
and frequent conferences with Paullinus, 
your of the Chriftian religion; and the 
Pe t 
Imitated his exam 
Be, and 17th of his reign, divided the monarchy of Nor- 
f g 
founding of the kingdom of Mercia, 
when Ofwald, the brother of Eanfrid, of the race of Bernitia, 
united again the kingdom of Northumberland in 634, and 
reftored the Chriftian religion in his dominions. Otwald is 
much celebrated for his fanéity and charity, and even for 
Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, lafted two hundred and forty-three 
years; but if the time fpent by the Saxons in their conqueft 
from the arrival of Hengif in 449 be added, the heptarchy 
will be found to have Talked three hundred and feventy-eight 
s commencement to its diffolution, The caufes 
gb i 
pe pie the laft King of the Weft Saxons, had in his 
youth excited the jealouly of his predeceffor, Brithric, partly 
B 
The circumftances of the times afforded him an opportunity” 
as the fole 
dust Britain, and who enhanced their authority by er. 
pedigree from W ity of their 
tors. Egbert, however, declined for fome time giving any 
Saxon neighbours, and chofe rather to 
ft the Britons in Cornwall, whom he de- 
- Ean th. S he turn his arms a 
Ofwald ma cia dei rans RO voffefion of his feated in feveral battles. At length he- was recalled f 
Paternal k Deen: H Ofric, Edwin’s coufin- thefe conquefts by an invafion made upon his own dominions, 
german, eitablithed himfelf in Deira. Both thefe kings re- by ae he ee ow : before 
turned to Paganifm, and the whole people feem to his , had very nearly attained t abfolute fove- 
timed wih them : ince Palins, who was theft arch- rignty inthe epithe rince in the Linge 
thop : em, thought to lubjeétion, and eft: A arin, 
Proper 10 rete with Ege ee ee to dome of Kent and Effex, Northumberland was involved in 
Keat, Both pri ae eta anarchy ; and no ftate of any equence remained but that 
thefe princes died prematurely foon after 5 
