possessions the demesne or lordship of Lynn and Gaywood was included.—The bishops of Elmham, according to the best account we have met with, were the following, I. BEDWINUS, or _Baldwinus_. He has been spoken highly of as a man of profound learning and exemplary virtue, and author of numerous works (now lost) which confirmed many in the christian faith. 2. NORTHBERTUS, or _Northbert_, succeeded sometime after 679.—(3) HEDULACUS, or _Hadulac_, filled this see in 731; when Bede completed his ecclesiastical History.—(4.) EDELFRIDUS, or _Ethelfrith_.—(5.) LAMFERTHUS, or _Lameferd_.—(6.) ATHELWALFUS, or _Ethelwolph_, occupied this see in 811.—(7.) ULFERTUS, or _Alberth_: said to attend at the council of Cloveshoe, in Berks, where King Offa proposed erecting a new bishopric at _Lichfield_.—(8.) SIBBA, or _Sibban_: he sat in 816.—(9.) HUNFERTH, or _Hunferd_: was living in 824.—(10.) HUMBERT, or _Humbrit_: it was he who crowned king Edmund, or St. Edmund, in 856, with whom he perished in 870, or 871, in opposing the Danes. He too was canonized.—(11.) WYBRED, _Wyred_, or _Wilbred_: He was set over the two sees of Dunwich and Elmham, which occasioned their being then reunited: the seat was fixed at Elmham. _Bishops of Elmham after the union of the sees_.—(1.) THEODRED I. He is reported to have been an eye witness of St. Edmund’s corpse being found uncorrupt, 70 or 80 years after his death.—(2.) THEODRED, II. surnamed the _Good_: He was first bishop of London, and then of Elmham; both of which he held till he died, sometime after 962.—(3.) ATHULF, or _Adulf_: succeeded in 966; or, as some think, earlier.—(4.) ALFRIC or _Alfrid_: was one of those who signed and confirmed king Edgar’s charter to the abbey of Croyland. He died in 975, at the close of Edgar’s reign.—(5.) ATHELSTAN, _Edelstane_, or _Elstane_: He was consecrated the latter part of 975.—(6) St. ALGARE, or _Algarc_: he had been Confessor to St. Dunstan archbishop of Canterbury, and promoted to this see in 1012. He afterwards resigned, and retired among the monks of Ely, where he died in 1021.—(7.) ALFWIN, or _Elfwin_, succeeded the same year. He had been keeper or guardian of the body or remains of St. Edmund, and afterwards removed the same from Bury to London. He was also a violent stickler for the monks, or _Regulars_, in their furious squabbles with the _Seculars_. He resigned in 1032.—(8.) ALFRIC II. succeeded, and died in 1038; and was succeeded by—(9.) ALFRIC III. surnamed the _Little_, who is said to die in 1139. {349}—(10.) STIGAND; (afterwards archbishop) he had been chaplain to king Harold Harefoot; but having obtained this see by simony, which his vast wealth would enable him easily to do, he was afterwards ejected by king Hardicanute, in 1040.—(11.) GRINKETEL: he held it in commendam with the bishopric of the _South-Saxons_, during the rest of Hardicanute’s reign. Under the Confessor, Stigand was restored to favour, and promoted to Winchester, and last to Canterbury.—(12.)