Gilbert, George, Collins, William Wiehe, 1862- ill · New York : Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 198
year from thesmall foundation of a monastery for monks andnuns by Ethelreda. This princess was thedaughter of the King of the East Angles, and thewife of Egfred, the King of Northumberland.She had devoted a great deal of her life tomonasticism, and eventually constituted herself asthe first abbess… … ELY FROM THE WEST FRONT ELY stated. Nothing more is heard or worth relatingof the welfare of this royal benefice until theninth century, when, in the natural order ofthings, it was destroyed by the Danes. In 879,a matter of nine years after this devastation, itwas partially restored by those…
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