serts, that it takes its name from Alla, a Nor thumbrian King, slain in the year 867.* At Rippon was a MONASTERY, built by Wilfred, Archbishop of York, who presuming on his great wealth and power, behaved with such insolence towards Egfrid, King of Northumberland, as induced that Monarch to deprive the Bishop of his See; and despising the power of the Pope, to whom the Prelate had appealed, the King put him into prison for daring to apply to a foreign power against his Sovereign. On the death of Egfrid, his successor, Alkfrid, restored him to the See of York; but the same insolence caused his banishment a second time. He then fled to Ethelred, King of Mercia, who bestowed on him the Bishopric of Leicester; but his conduct continued so flagitious, that he was shortly degraded. Full of worldly pomp and pride, his attendants were numerous, his plate was of gold, and his furniture rich and sumptuous. His zeal for the Church of Rome procured him, the rank of a Saint. Eata, This must be an error, as the Northumbrian Monarchy terminated about the year 824, when it became subject to Egbert, King of Wessex, and first sole Monarch of England. Neither does it appear that there ever was a King of that country, named Alla; there was an Ella, who was slain by the Danes at York. This Ella and Osbright were set up as Kings by the rebellious Northumbrians, who met with their deaths at York, about the year 867, from the Danes. |