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The greater abbeys of England (1908)

Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · London, Chatto & Windus · leaf 266

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ngs, aswell by the sea coast as in Essex and in Kent and inSussex and in Hampshire, etc., and all the army thencame to Southampton, and there took winter quarters.With the enemy so near to Romsey as Southampton,it is hardly likely that the convent would have escapedpillage at least and probably… … o Romsey detail. In 1085 the a&atow C-Srow/c/^ notes that Chris-tina, the sister of Edgar Atheling took the veil amongthe nuns here. In process of time her niece—the daugh-ter of her sister Margaret — St Margaret of Scotland,who had married Malcolm III, is said to have con-fided to the care of…

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