The greater abbeys of England, with illustrations in colour after Warwick Goble (1908)
Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York ; Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 268
gs, 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… … 15/ Romsey detail. In 1085 the Saxon Chronicle r\ott% that Chris-tina, the sister of Edgar Athehng 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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