NORFOLK. 
to fubdue pee it is probable that to the Roman 
ritifh Pag troops, not included in this 
find 
together with the few remaining 
Roman troops, were recalled to defend the Roman capital 
wie era and Conftantine. 
he firft Saxon leader who eftablifhed himfelf in this 
~ of the ifland was Uffa, w - 575 aflumed do- 
minion over that part of the country which at prefent com- 
prifes Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgefhire, giving it the 
Anglia; and the inhabitants were de- 
About this period it is highly pro- 
bable that the city of Norwich oes ut of the Venta- 
Icenorum of the Britons and Romans; and, from its rela- 
tive bearing to the old city, was ‘called by the Saxons 
orth-ick, or Northwick. 
ffa, who died A. 578, was fucceeded by his fon 
Titift, on nw demife, 599; his fon Redwald aflumed 
the reins of government, and ae raced pepper but, 
through the influence of his wife, renounced it again 
was — ed, by his fon Erwald, who was 
- 024, 
affaffina mse n 
an 
0 
at Cambridge. Fatigued with the burthen of governm 
he refigned both his crown a its cares, A. 
infman Egric. e on governments were now at 
variance amongft them felves. Penda, king of Mer om- 
men ced hoftilities againft Egric, who called Sigebert fom 
is monaftic retirement to head his army. de- 
feated, and both flain in battle. Anna, nephew o 
wald, afcended the throne, reftored Cenwalch to his king- 
dom of i and became the moft celebrated of the Eaft- 
Anglian princes. But Penda bringing againft him the 
powerful ome: of Mercia, he fell in battle, A. 54 
From this period, the Mercian princes feem to have diGtated 
in the choice of ene to the Eaft-Angles; and in the 
ing of Mercia, united the kingdom of 
and ftrength. 
defeated his armie 
ceeded by Ethel wld his fom who die . 860, when 
his eldeft brother aflumed the government ” Ethelred, the 
third brother, came to the throne in 866. In his reign, the 
Danes extended their ravages over the greateft part of his 
dominions; but under the martial fpirit and prowefs of his 
ounger brother, Alfred, then invefted the title and 
authority of earl and field-marfhal, they received a fever 
check ; an the continued reverles they experienced, were 
conftrained to abandon nglia entirely, a cen- 
trate their forces in here feveral defperate battles 
were fought with various fuccefs, in one of which Ethelred 
was mortally wounded; and dying in 872, Alfred afcended 
the abs and ultimately fuccee 
o 
te) The 
Danith chief fia fixed his feat of viceroyalty fometimes at 
Cambridge, and fometimes at Norwich ; but after this fignal 
defeat, and confequent reftri€tion, the principal refidence of 
thefe marauders was the latter city. From that period, 
Norwich continued a royal caftle, and the omy remained, 
with the other parts of the province, in poffleffion of the 
Saxon line, through the fucceeding reigns of Athelftan, 
Edmund, Edred or Eldred, Edwin 
Edward the anthae = ‘the rei 
Danes again became mely troublefome, and, A. 
invaded with confiderable force Eatt- 
un 
dynafty, this county was the thea any fevere con- 
fliéts ; and as the Danifh chiefs ane aa either ile 
pofleffion for ens or for fome leader,. of a ftro 
ees or deb 
of William Rufus Norfoik was a {cene of 
tem prin 
his father Pee Henry II., this county largely participated 
in the difafters which Dera from civil difcord. Earl Bigod 
efpoufed the aid s caufe, but the king’s troops being vic- 
torious, the Flemings in the pay of the prince were per- 
mitted to ane to their own country, and Bigod purchafed 
his Laces at the expence of 1000 marks. 
e turbulent reign of John, Roger Bigod, earl of 
Norfolk, took part with the refractory barons. And while 
they were taking towns and cities in one part of the king- 
dom, John was laying as with fire and = hea baronial 
, poffeffions i in another. In this career he ca o Lynn, 
where, being well tort he croffed the wathes, with ithe 
lofs of his baggage, to the abbey of Swinefhead, in his way 
. — pou where he died. After this period, the 
nty was overrun by prince Lewis, who exacted heavy 
conned: Tn Richard IT.’s time, a powerful infurreGion 
broke out, under two brothers, John and Matthew Tiler, 
commonly called Jack Straw and Wat T 
ftandards were joined by numbers of the ] 
in the city of Nor t Ly another ae ar- 
mouth ; this fo ‘aipinieea his adherents, that ‘they difperfed, 
and ut to the rebellion of t orfolk levellere. 
Two rebellions broke out in the reign owin 
who fleffion of t 
Tice h hey happened in remote pane es mee | Devon, 
the ete lace of thefe thew that they were the confequence 
of previous communications, and a preconcerted plan. The 
rebels 
