Sublime

Kentish kings exercised their lordship in at least three locations – at Canterbury itself, where the old Roman theatre provided a suitably grand assembly place; at Lyminge, where recent excavations indicate a likely royal presence, and at Rochester, seat of one of the earliest bishoprics. Æðelberht is likely to have enjoyed royal residences in all

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Some chieftains took substantial diplomatic gifts – or bribes – to stay neutral or act as buffers. Raiding parties of Scotti and Attacotti from Ireland or Argyll, and Picti from Caledonia increased in scale and sophistication to the point where, in 367, frontier scouts – the areani – were comprehensively bribed into complicity. Channel pirates, car

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