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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England: Book IV: VI. How Wynfrid being deposed, Sexwulf received his bishopric, and Earconwald was made

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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England, ed. by A.M. Sellar, [1907] NOT long after these events, Theodore, the archbishop, taking offence at some act of disobedience of Wynfrid, bishop of the Mercians,deposed him from his bishopric when he had held it but a few years, and in his, place ordained Sexwulf bishop,who was founder and abbot of the monastery which is called Medeshamstead,’ in the country of the Gyrwas.Wynfrid, thus deposed, returned to his monastery which is called Ad Barvae,and…