The History of London

ge who followed the standard of the White Horse and landed on the coast of Essex. He became more peaceful: he settled down contentedly to periods of tranquillity. Certain arts he

live in towns; and

s always been a place of trade. But for trade no one would have settled in it. Therefore, either the men of Essex invited the foreign merchants

She had brought with her a chaplain and it was probably at her invitation or through her influence, that the monks were sent. They landed at Thanet. They obtained permission to meet the King in the open air. They appeared wearing their robes, ca

ons made no more hesitation at being baptised than the men of Kent. Ethelbert, indeed, could command obedience; he was Over Lord of all the nations south of the Humber. He it was, accordin

g Siebehrt died, they relapsed a

ese nations one after the other obtained the supremacy. It was in the year 616 or thereabouts, that Bishop Mellitus had to leave his diocese. Forty years later another conversion of London took place under Bishop Cedd, consecrated at Lindisfarne. Th

he Mercians. The earliest extant document concerning London is one dated 734, in which King Ethelb

illustrious place and royal city. The supremacy of Mercia passed to that of Wessex-L

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d the Isle of Thanet, which commanded the river; they had conquered the north country from the Tweed to the Humber; they had overrun all the eastern counties twice-viz., in