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A History of the County of Worcester
… for the Vale of Evesham. 34 During his rule also King Cnut, his kinsman, endowed the abbey with Badby and Newnham …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… His elevation to the see had been one of the first acts of Cnut as King of England, and there is other evidence of that … in the abbey, and in the earliest of these the names of Cnut, Harold, Harthacnut, and Queen Emma stand first. Moreover, it is to Cnut and Emma that the curious 'Will of Mantat the Anker', in …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… St. Dunstan as Archbishop of Canterbury in 988. King Cnut was a great benefactor to the Minster, not only in lands … this time was the gift in 1041 by Queen Emma, widow of Cnut, of the head of St. Valentine, which was cherished as … procession, their sacred relics, the great gold cross of Cnut's benefaction, together with the illustrious remains of …
A History of the County of Durham
… to whom generous gifts of lands, &c., had been made by Cnut and other benefactors. 3 These secular canons, with …
A History of the County of Hertford
… the old Saxon nobility, and was also a kinsman of King Cnut and a friend of King Edward and of Harold. We know …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of Athelney and to Alfric, the abbot. A charter of King Cnut, 501 witnessed by Earls Leofric and Godwin and Stigand, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… to Glastonbury comes to us before the Norman Conquest. Cnut had returned from Rome full of schemes for reform, 286 …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… and was a friend to the house all his life. 11 Under Cnut and Edward the Confessor the abbey still increased in … of East Anglia, obtained with the permission of King Cnut, but much against the will of the monks of Ely, who …
A History of the County of Norfolk
… had lived here for some sixty years, when the attention of Cnut was drawn to them by alleged miraculous intervention. … the control of their good Prior Uvius, were sent by King Cnut with half the books and other furniture of the house to … in Bibl. Cotton, fol. 7 d.' Certain chroniclers have dated Cnut's foundation after his return from Rome in 1031, but …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… miraculous events were connected with her tomb. 17 King Cnut is said to have venerated St. Edith highly and to have …