But Edwin, from a sense oL gratitude towards his benefactor, obliged them to submit to Earpwold, the son of Redwald; and that prince preserved his authority, though on a precarious footing, under the protection of the Northumbrian monarch.[***] [* Bede, lib.ii.cap.12.Bromton, p.

781.] [** Chron.Sax.p.

27.] [*** W.Malms, lib.i.cap.

3] Edwin, after his accession to the crown, married Ethelburga, the daughter of Ethelbert, king of Kent.

This princess, emulating the glory of her mother, Bertha, who had been the instrument for converting her husband and his people to Christianity, carried Paullinus, a learned bishop, along with her;[*] and besides stipulating a toleration for the exercise of her own religion, which was readily granted her, she used every reason to persuade the king to embrace it.