The Church of St Martin Canterbury An Illustrated Account of Its History And
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&c. &c. It is also attested by King Ethelred, Duke Eastmund, Abbot Ealhheard, and many others, and is confirmed "in Jesus Christ with the sign of the Holy Cross " in the year 867. We can hardly doubt that the church suffered some injury at the hands of the Danes, by whom Canterbury was wasted in 851 and again in 1009, though the most serious devastation took place in ion, when, in the reign of Ethelred the Second- the Danes laid siege to, and captured, the city. On that occasion Archbishop Elph...ege was seized, bound, and dragged to the Cathedral to see it in flames. He was then carried off, and eventually murdered at Greenwich. Not very long after this period we discover mention of the suffragan " Bishops of St. Martin's, " who were evidently Chore- piscopi, an ancient order of bishops, dating from the third century, who overlooked the country district committed to them, ordaining readers, exorcists and subdeacons, but not (as a rule) deacons and priests, except by express permission of the diocesan bishop.
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