Raine, Historians of the Church of York, Rolls series, vol. 1, Preface p. xxvii. This volume contains reprints of several accounts of the life of Wilfrith, including the one by Eddi.
275
A. SS. Boll., St Withburga, March 17; Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘East Dereham,’ vol. 2, p. 176.
276
Haigh, D. H., ‘On the monasteries of St Heiu and St Hild,’ Yorkshire Archaeol. Journal, vol. 3, p. 352, decides in favour of Aethelric.
277
Bright, W., Early English Church History, 1878, p. 235.
278
Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Coldingham,’ vol. 6, p. 149. The promontory of St Abb’s Head retains her name. She is believed to have founded another religious settlement at a place in Durham on the river Derwent called Ebbchester, and the village church there is dedicated to her (Dict. of Nat. Biog.).
279
Bede, Eccles. History, bk 4, ch. 19.
280
A. SS. Boll., St Etheldreda June 23, Thomas of Ely, Vita ch. 41.
281
Bright, W., Early English Church History, 1878, p. 252 footnote.
282
Bede, Eccles. History, bk 4, ch. 19.
283
Kalendre of the newe Legende of Englande, printed 1516 (Pynson) fol. 39 b.
284
Bede, Eccles. History, bk 4, ch. 19.
285
Dictionary of National Biography, ‘Etheldreda, Saint.’
286
Bentham, History of Ely, 1817, p. 9.
287
Gocelinus, Vita St Wereburgae (in Migne, Patrol. Cursus Compl. vol. 155).
288
Stanton, R., Menology of England and Wales, 1887, p. 49, calls it Weedon in Northamptonshire; Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Wedon,’ vol. 6, p. 1051, doubts its existence.
289
Life of St Werburgh, 1521, reprinted for the Early Engl. Text Soc., 1887.
290
Stanton, R., Menology of England and Wales, 1887, p. 49.
291
Livien, E. ‘On early religious houses in Staffordshire,’ Journal of the British Archaeolog. Assoc., vol. 29, p. 329. (The widespread cult of St Werburg may be due to there having been several saints of this name; comp. Stanton, R., Menology.)
292
Eddi, Vita, c. 34 (in Raine, Historians of the Church of York, Rolls series).
293
Bright, W., Early English Church History, 1878, p. 300, casts discredit on this story, which is told by Eddi, Vita, c. 38.
294
Bright, W., Early English Church History, 1878, pp. 301 ff.
295
Hardy, Th. D., Descriptive Catalogue of Materials, 1862, vol. 1, pp. 297 ff.
296
Bede, Life of St Cuthbert, ch. 10.
297
Bede, Eccles. History, bk 4, ch. 25.
298
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle gives 679 as the date of the fire; Eddi’s account represents Aebbe as alive in 681. Perhaps she died in 680; comp. Smith and Wace, Dictionary of Christian Biography, 1877, Ebba, nr 1; also Bright, W., Early English Church History, 1878, p. 300, footnote.
299
Bright, W., ibid., p. 255, footnote.
300
Hardy, Th. D., Descriptive Catalogue of Materials, 1862, vol. 1, p. 312.
301
Bede, Life of St Cuthbert, ch. 23.
302
Bede, Life of St Cuthbert, ch. 34.
303
Ibid., ch. 24.
304
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).
305
Eccles. xi. 8.
306
Bede, Eccles. Hist., bk 4, ch. 26.
307
Eddi, Vita, c. 43.
308
Bright, W., Early English History, 1878, p. 448, from 686-691.
309
Haigh, D. H., ‘On the monasteries of St Heiu and St Hild,’ Yorksh. Archaeol. Journal, vol. 3, p. 375.
310
Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Peterborough,’ vol. 1, p. 377, nr 2, prints the charter.
311
Gough, R., Parochial History of Castor, 1819, p. 99.
312
‘Cum beatissimis sororibus meis Kyneburga et Kyneswida, quarum prior regina mutavit imperium in Christi ancillarum praesidens monasterio … etc.’
313
Hardy, Th. D., Descriptive Catalogue of Materials, 1862, vol. 1, p. 370.
314
A. SS. Boll., St Kineburga et St Kineswitha, virgines, March 6, argue the existence of a third sister.
315
Camden, Britannia, edit. 1789, vol. 2, pp. 219, 223.
316
Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Repton,’ vol. 6, p. 429; the abbesses he mentions should stand in this order: Alfritha, Edburga.
317
Haddon and Stubbs, Councils and Eccles. Documents, 1869, vol. 3, p. 273.
318
Ibid., vol. 3, p. 274.
319
Birch, W. de Gray, Memorials of St Guthlac of Crowland, 1881.
320
A. SS. Boll., St Guthlac, April 11; Felix, Vita, c. 12.
321
Felix, Vita, c. 33.
322
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.
323
Comp. below, ch. 4, § 1.
324
Holdich, B., History of Crowland Abbey, 1816, p. 2.
325
Gray, W. de Birch, Memorials of St Guthlac of Crowland, 1881, Introd. p. l, footnote.
326
Brit. Mus. MS. Harleian Roll, Y 6, reproduced Gray, W. de Birch, Memorials of St Guthlac of Crowland, 1881, pp. 14, 16, etc.
327
Goodwin, C. W., The Anglo-Saxon version of the life of St Guthlac, 1848, p. 93.
