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16. Wulstanus.
BY the fauour of the king Athelstan, Wulstanus was then preferred to this Sée: In whose time the same king gaue vnto the Church of Yorke Agmundernes which he bought of the Danes This Bishop was conuict of a haynous crime; forgetting the dutifull affection that he ought to beare vnto Edred his king, for Athelstane his brothers sake that preferred him; forgetting his oath and allegiance vnto the same king being his naturall Prince; yea forgetting that he was either an Englishman or a Christian: He was not ashamed to leane vnto the Danes, and sauour them, a hea∣then people, and such as sought not onely to destroy his coun∣trey, but also to roote out Christian Religion. For this trea∣son (deseruing a thousand deaths) he was onely committed to prison the yéere 952. and a yeere after inlarged againe. This is the report of William Malmesbury. Matthew West∣minster saith, he was punished in this fort for killing diuers citizens of Thetford in reuenge of the death of one Adelm an Abbot, whom they had slaine, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 without cause: two yeeres after his enlargement, he died vpon Saint Ste∣phens day, the yeere 955. He was buried at a place called Undalum. Except it be Owndlc in Northhampton shire, how it is now termed I cannot gesse.