Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...in truth was found and consecrated bishop in Vighard's place. CHAPTER XXX. How the East Saxons, in the time of the mortality, returned to idolatry, but were afterwards corrected from their error by the instancy of Bishop faruman. At the same time, the kings Sighere2 and Sebbi3 ruled over the province of the East Saxons after Suidhelm, of whom I have spoken above1, although themselves subject to Wulfhere, king of the Mercians. When that province, to wit, was afflicted with the calamity of the aforesaid pestilence, Sighere, with his part of the people, having left the sacraments of the Christian faith, turned to apostasy; for both the king himself, and very many of the common people and the nobles, loving this life, and not seeking the life to come, or even not believing that there was any, began to restore the fanes which they had deserted, and to worship images, as if by these means they could be defended from the mortality." Further, Sebbi his associate, and coheir of the same kingdom, with all his people, kept with great devotion the faith which he had received, and with great happiness, as I shall relate in what follows, ended a faithful life. 1 Matt. vi. 33. 2 Son of Sigberct surnamed the Little, and husband of St. Osyth, the daughter of Frithewald, king of Surrey, and Wilburh, daughter of Penda. 3 Son of Saeward, one of the apostate sons of the first Christian king of the East Saxons, Saberct, and brother of Sigberct the Little. He resigned his kingdom, and died in A D. 694. Which when King Wulfhere perceived--to wit, that the faith of the province was in part profaned--he sent Bishop Jaruman 2, who was the successor of Trumhere, to correct the error and recall the province to the true faith; who acting with great skill (as a...
