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Bright, W., ibid., p. 255, footnote.

Hardy, Th. D., Descriptive Catalogue of Materials , 1862, vol. 1, p. 312.

Bede, Life of St Cuthbert , ch. 23.

Bede, Life of St Cuthbert , ch. 34.

Ibid., ch. 24.

Psalm lxxxix. 10 (The Vulgate here follows the LXX.; it would be interesting to know what sense they or indeed Bede gave to the passage).

Eccles. xi. 8.

Bede, Eccles. Hist. , bk 4, ch. 26.

Eddi, Vita , c. 43.

Bright, W., Early English History , 1878, p. 448, from 686-691.

Haigh, D. H., ‘On the monasteries of St Heiu and St Hild,’ Yorksh. Archaeol. Journal , vol. 3, p. 375.

Dugdale, Monasticon , ‘Peterborough,’ vol. 1, p. 377, nr 2, prints the charter.

Gough, R., Parochial History of Castor , 1819, p. 99.

‘Cum beatissimis sororibus meis Kyneburga et Kyneswida, quarum prior regina mutavit imperium in Christi ancillarum praesidens monasterio … etc.’

Hardy, Th. D., Descriptive Catalogue of Materials , 1862, vol. 1, p. 370.

A. SS. Boll. , St Kineburga et St Kineswitha, virgines, March 6, argue the existence of a third sister.

Camden, Britannia , edit. 1789, vol. 2, pp. 219, 223.

Dugdale, Monasticon , ‘Repton,’ vol. 6, p. 429; the abbesses he mentions should stand in this order: Alfritha, Edburga.

Haddon and Stubbs, Councils and Eccles. Documents , 1869, vol. 3, p. 273.

Ibid., vol. 3, p. 274.

Birch, W. de Gray, Memorials of St Guthlac of Crowland , 1881.

A. SS. Boll. , St Guthlac, April 11; Felix, Vita , c. 12.

Felix, Vita , c. 33.

Ibid., ‘Egburgh abbatissa, Aldulfi regis filia’; Smith and Wace, Dictionary of Christian Biography , 1877, call her ‘Eadburga (nr 3)’; two abbesses Ecgburh occur in the Durham list of abbesses, comp. Gray, W. de Birch, Fasti Monastici Aevi Saxonici , 1872, p. 70.

Comp. below, ch. 4, § 1.

Holdich, B., History of Crowland Abbey , 1816, p. 2.

Gray, W. de Birch, Memorials of St Guthlac of Crowland , 1881, Introd. p. l, footnote.

Brit. Mus. MS. Harleian Roll, Y 6, reproduced Gray, W. de Birch, Memorials of St Guthlac of Crowland , 1881, pp. 14, 16, etc.

Goodwin, C. W., The Anglo-Saxon version of the life of St Guthlac , 1848, p. 93.

A. SS. Boll. , St Pega sive Pegia, Jan. 8.

A. SS. Boll. , St Ositha, Oct. 7.

Dugdale, Monasticon , ‘Chich Priory,’ vol. 6, p. 308.

Hardy, Th. D., Descriptive Catalogue of Materials , vol. 1, pp. 524 ff.

A. SS. Boll. , St Frideswida, Oct. 19; Dugdale, Monasticon , ‘Christ Church,’ vol. 2, p. 134.

Dictionary of National Biography , Frideswide.

Stanton, R., Menology of England and Wales , 1887, p. 137: ‘we have no records of Osburg till 1410.’

Ibid., p. 310: ‘there is much obscurity in the history of St Modwenna. It seems that she must be distinguished from one or perhaps two other Irish saints…’ Also Livien, E., ‘On early religious houses in Staffordshire’ in Journal of the British Archaeol. Association , vol. 29, p. 333; Hardy, Th. D., Descriptive Catalogue of Materials , pp. 94 ff.

Stanton, R., Menology of England and Wales , 1887, p. 328.

Bede, Eccles. Hist. , bk 4, chs. 7-10.

Dugdale, Monasticon , ‘Barking,’ vol. 1, p. 436.

A. SS. Boll. , St Ethelburga, Oct. 11; Stanton, R., Menology of England and Wales , p. 485.

Stanton, R., Menology , calls her Theorigitha but says, p. 36, that she has no day.

A. SS. Boll. , St Hildelitha, March 24.

Bede, Eccles. Hist. , bk 5, ch. 18.

Capgrave, T., Catalogus SS. Angliae , 1516, fol. 10, b.

Monumenta Moguntina , edit. Jaffé, Epist. nr 2, written between 675 and 705; Giles (Aldhelm, Opera Omnia , 1844, p. 90) calls her Osgith, a name which occurs several times in the Durham ‘Liber Vitae.’

Aldhelm, Opera , edit. Giles, 1844, p. 103.

Ibid., p. 115, De Basilica , etc.

Ibid., p. 135, De Laudibus Virginum (it is not known over which house Maxima presided); p. 203, De octo Principalibus Vitiis .

Ibid., p. 1, De Laudibus Virginitatis (chapter references in the text are to this edition).

Mediaeval exegesis interpreted in these four ways, comp. Cassian Erem., De Spiritu Sc. , c. 8.

I take ‘crustu’ to go with ‘crusta,’ comp. Ducange.

Monumenta Moguntina , edit. Jaffé, Epist. nr 70.

Dugdale, Monasticon , ‘Sherbourne,’ vol. 1, p. 331, footnote K.

Will. of Malmesbury, History , c. 31.

Dict. of Nat. Biography , ‘Aldhelm.’

Dugdale, Monasticon , ‘Wimbourne,’ vol. 2, p. 88.

A. SS. Boll. , St Cuthberga, Aug. 31.

Dugdale, Monasticon , ‘Wimbourne,’ vol. 2, p. 88.

Opera edit. Giles, 1844, p. 216; Dict. of Nat. Biog. , ‘Aldfrith,’ he is sometimes called Alfred.

Dugdale, Monasticon , ‘Wimbourne,’ vol. 2, p. 89, nr 2.

Brit. Mus. MSS. Lansdowne , 436 f., 38 b.

Dugdale, Monasticon , ‘Tetbury,’ vol. 6, p. 1619.

A. SS. Boll. , St Lioba, Sept. 28, c. 2.

Arndt, W., Introd. to translation into German (in Pertz, Geschichtsschreiber der deutschen Vorzeit , Jahrhundert 8, Band 2), p. xix.