_Immediate consequence of the abdication of the country by the Romans_, _and probable fate of Lynn_. SECT. 1. Character of the Anglo-Saxons, with general 228 observations on the invasion and conquest of this country by them, and their barbarous treatment of the inhabitants. SECT. 2. Of the ANGLES, from whom England and the English 235 language derive their names—they seize on the parts about Lynn, and the whole province of the ancient ICENI, which receives the denomination of East Anglia, and forms one of the kingdoms of the Heptarchy—revival of Lynn in the mean time—with remarks on the adjacent country. SECT. 3. Of the _Saltworks_ formerly at and about 239 Lynn—paucity of appropriate materials to elucidate that subject—apology. CHAP. III. _Of the religious profession of the first Anglian inhabitants of Lynn—their renouncing heathenism_, _and assuming the christian name—account of their conversion_, _and character of their Christianity_. SECT. 1. Heathenism the religion of this town at the 241 commencement of the Heptarchy—our townsmen and the rest of the East Angles, with the other branches of the Heptarchy, become professors of Christianity—account of their conversion. SECT. 2. Effects of the conversion of the East Angles, and 244 the sister kingdoms—character of their Christianity. SECT. 3. Christianity of the ancient inhabitants of Lynn 248 and of this country further characterized—whether very materially improved during the reign of ALFRED—remarks on that reign—papal instructions to the first missionaries. CHAP. IV.