He  was  present  at  the  synod  of  Whitby,  and
gave  his  assent  to  the  Catholic  custom  of
keeping  Easter.  He  seems  to  have  gone
thence  to  Lastingham,  and  to  have  sickened
of  the  plague,  and  died  there  on  26th  October.
He  was  buried  at  Lastingham,  and  thirty  of
his  monks  who  came  from  Ithanchester  that
they  might  live  or  die  near  his  body  caught
the  infection  and,  with  the  exception  of  one
lad,  died  of  the  plague.
He  has  been  placed  second  to  Mellitus  [q.v.)
in  the  list  of  the  bishops  of  London,  but  Bede
{q.v.)  never  speaks  of  him  under  that  title,
but  only  as  Bishop  of  the  East  Saxons.  The
city  may  have  been  independent  of  the  East
Saxons  at  the  time,  or  Cedd  may  have  pre-
ferred, like  most  Scotic  bishops,  to  fix  his
seat  in  a  remote  part  of  the  country  away
from  London.
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After  the  death  of  his  brother  Chad  an
Anglican  inmate  of  an  Irish  monastery  pro-
fessed to  have  seen  in  a  vision  the  soul  of
Cedd  descending  from  heaven  in  the  midst
of  angels  to  conduct  Chad's  soul  back  to  the
celestial  country.  [c.  p.  s.  c]

Bede,  II.  E.  ;  D.N.B.
CHAD,  or  CEADDA,  St.  (d.  672),  was  a
Northumbrian.  He  and  his  three  brothers,
Cedd  (q.v.),  Cyrnbill,  and  Caelin,  were  all
ordained  priests,  and  he  and  Cedd  became
bishops.  In  664  he  succeeded  Cedd,  Bishop
of  the  East  Saxons,  as  Abbot  of  Lastingham.
