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��LICHFIELD.

��691 721

737

765

768 785

��Headdi succeeded to Lichfield -^ in 69 t, and died in 721.

Aldwini Wor^^ succeeded Headdi in the diocese of Lichfield, and also, like him, held that of Leicester during his life. He died in 737--.

WiTTA'--^ succeeded to Lichfield only-* in 737, and from that time Lichfield remained distinct and in the same extent, until Chester was taken out of it.

Hemele^s, the successor of Witta, became bishop of Lichfield about the year 752. He died in 765'^*^.

Ceolfrith'^? or Cuthred became bishop of Lichfield in 765. He died about 768.

BuRTHUN'2^. He died about 785'^9.

Higbert^o was nominated bishop of Lichfield in the synod of Celchyth, in which the jurisdiction of the archbishop of Canterbury was diminished, and a great portion assigned to Lichfield -^^ as an archi- episcopate. Higbert, however, refused to assume such

authority, and was content with his title of bishop 22. He died in the year 786.

��20 Wilfrith, bishop of the Northumbrians, then exiled from his see, was under the protection of king Aethilred of Mercia, and took upon himself the govern- ment of the see of Leicester with Aethilred's consent ; but Wil- frith being ejected by the sen- tence of the synod of Nestrefeld in 703, Headdi administered to Leicester conjointly with Lich- field.

21 Called also Eadwine.

22 Angl. Sac. pars i. p. 428. note (1).

23 Wita, Malmes. ; Huita, Flor. Wigorn. ; Huitta, Cod. Cott. I. et 2. ; Hwutta, Hoveden. Called also Hwitta and Wicta.

2"! Totta was ordained to Lei- cester. Defuncto Aldwino, ite-

��rum divisa est, (Merciorum dio- cesis) in duas parochias, Leices- trensem et Cestrensem seu Lich- feldensem. Angl. Sac. pars i. p. 428. note (m).

25 Hemeli, Hoveden. ; Ceraele, Text. RofFens.

26 Sim. Dunelm. et Hoved. fol. 231''. Others say in 768.

27 Cuthfrid or Cuthfrith, Malmes. ; Cuthred, Hoved. et Sim. Dunelm. His accession to the episcopal chair is sometimes placed in 768.

28 Malmes.

29 Flor. Wigorn.

30 Higebrihtus, Flor. Wigorn. ; Sigibertus, Text. RofFens.

31 Sax. Chron. et Flor. Wigorn.

32 Concil.Angl.tom.i. pp.151. 301. 304.

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