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Excerpt from History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Churches of Great Britain, Vol. 4 of 4: Illustrated With a Series of Highly-Finished Engravings, Exhibiting General and Particular Views, Ground Plans, and All the Architectural Features and Ornaments in the Various Styles of Building Used in Our Ecclesiastical Edifices
It isnot recorded that this church was often repaired, although it was repeatedly desolated by domestic as well as foreign soldiers. In 67 6 it was plundered by fethelred, king of Mercia; by the Danes in 839; and unsuccessfully besieged by them in 885: in 986 it was attacked by king Ethelred in revenge at the bishop; and in 998 it was again pillaged by the Danes; so that at the time of the Norman invasion, the church, according to our historians, was in such a stateof poverty that divine worship was entirely neglected in it. The cathedral and priory, indeed, were marked objects of spoliation on every occasion bishop Putta was driven from his see by the Mercians and hecame bishop of Hereford. His successor also abandoned his charge; but, whatever injury the building may have sustained, we have no account of its being rebuilt, only some slight repairs and additiohs were made, as by bishop Tobias 1, who built St. Paul's porch to the church of St. Andrew, for the place of his interment. During the prelacy of Bardulph, the cathedral establishment somewhat recovered its losses, and it received from kings Od'a and Sigered grants of Frindsbury, Wickham, and Bromley. The record of these donations, however, is extremely confused. Bishop Swithulf was appointed one of the guardians of the realm, and bravely discharged the duties of this important office, by compelling the Danes, who then infested the coast, to raise the siege of Rochester. To bi.
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