Walbottle
Bede , in his "Ecclesiastical History of the English People" , refers to a royal estate called "Ad Murum" near the Roman Wall where , in 653 AD , the King of the Middle Angles , Peada , and the King of the East Saxons , Sigeberht , were both baptised as Christians by Bishop Finan , having been persuaded to do so by King Oswy of Northumbria . 
<triplet> Ecclesiastical History of the English People <subj> Bede <obj> author