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family, and very much worn, as though they had been long 
in circulation. These do not prove that the earthworks 
within which they were found are Roman, because the 
Roman coinage, and especially this money of the Constantine 
family, appears to have remained long in circulation among 
the Anglo-Saxons. These coins are of no intrinsic value, 
but they are worthy of being preserved in your museum on 
account of the locality in which they were found. 
The conquest of Elmete was one of the earliest acts of 
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Edwin's reign ; he was then a pagan, but a few years after- 
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wards he was converted to Christianity through the exertions 
of Paulinus. Every reader of English history will remember 
the romantic and beautiful story of the conversion of Edwin, 
as told by Bede, which took place afar from our district, at ^ A ^ 
Godmanham (Grodmundingaham), and, probably, at Londes- 
borough, where the Northumbrian King appears to have * * 
possessed another residence. It may be well to explain that, 
in the division of land among the Teutonic conquerors and 
settlers, a considerable share was allotted to the chieftain who 
led the invasion, and who became king. This was the case h*pf& 
in all the conquests, and the chieftain's share consisting in 
manors scattered over his dominions, which formed his whole 6f $*4~* 
private property, he built on them houses of more or less r / 
strength and importance, where he went with his court from 
time to time to reside and consume the produce of the land — J^/L~, 
which, in fact, was the only way of consuming it. It was / * 
thus that the habitual life of a king, through the greater 
part of the middle ages, consisted in wandering about from 
one manor to another — in moving from house to house, or 
from castle to castle — in the course of which he naturally 
remained longest on the estates which were most productive, 
or which he liked best. 
From this period Leeds and its neighbourhood are found 
intimately connected with King Edwin's history. Paulinus 
