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The greater abbeys of England (1908)

Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 215

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hismother, who lay buried in the place he had founded. The connection between the abbey of Milton* and thatof St. Bertin is obvious. Edwin was buried at the lattermonastery, and his name was connected by the fo^inderwith Milton. It is more than probable, therefore, that themonks from St. Bertin… … MILTON since the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle under the year 964 statesthat King Edgar replaced the secular canons, who werethen living there, by monks. In 1309 a fire of great magnitude destroyed the church,which had been built in the twelfth century, and most ofthe domestic buildings. The church was…

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