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A History of the County of Kent
… the day after the consecration of Canterbury. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mentions the consecration without the date, …
A History of the County of Dorset
… sought opportunity stirred up the king's wrath against the Saxon nobleman so that he was seized by the king's order in …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… and despised the monks of Spalding because of their Saxon blood. 'By the instigation of the devil,' says Ingulf, … sympathies were more with her Norman husbands than her Saxon ancestry. She was remembered as 'foundress' of Spalding …
A History of the County of Essex
… endowment of Barking came not from him but from the East Saxon princes. A charter of the founder, printed in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 2 probably ruled it as abbess, in the tradition of noble Saxon ladies. 3 Any connexion between Ramsey and Chatteris … A. 1, fol. 71; Mon. Angl. ii, 616. Cf. W. G. Searle, Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings and Nobles, B. 27 (p. 407). She had been …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Edgar Atheling, took the veil at Romsey, as stated in the Saxon chronicle, and became abbess. To the same retreat …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… not otherwise known and had perhaps been dissolved ( Anglo-Saxon Charters, ed. A. J. Robertson, 52, 308). V.C.H. Berks. …
A History of the County of Hertford
… the nuns who existed at St. Albans Abbey through the Saxon period down to about this date. While Geoffrey was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 20. Printed by Early Engl. Text Soc. in 1905. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mentions a miraculous light seen in the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… apse to the north. Whether this church dates from the late Saxon or early Norman period is uncertain but a later … Much Wenlock 19 and had granted most of the lands of the Saxon minster to the monks. Stoke St. Milborough reverted to … Archaeologia, lxxii. 1067. H. M. and Joan Taylor, Anglo-Saxon Architecture (1965), i. 454. V.C.H. Salop. i. 31213, …