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A quarrel in the Northumbrian kingdom was the cause which sent a missionary to Sussex in 680 A.D. Ecgfrith and his witan had banished #Wilfrith#, Archbishop of York, from his see. The unfortunate exile wandered some time in search of welcome. Eventually he found his way to Sussex, where Aethelwealh and his Christian wife offered him a new field for his energies.
Bede has left a record characteristic of his day, in which he relates that immediately they had accepted the faith which he taught, "the rain, so long withheld, revisited the thirsty land." Aethelwealh, grateful for Wilfrith's aid, granted him lands at Selsea.
Then Ceadwalla, who had defeated Aedilwalch, or Aethelwealh, confirmed the grants to the Church made by his predecessor, in return for the kindness he had received from Wilfrith some time before.
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