Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 179
loucester in 767. From this time the abbesses disappear from history.During the wars which now commenced between Eg-bert, King of Wessex, and the Mercians, the nuns aresupposed to have left their convent, and for a period ofmore than fifty years it remained deserted. After thattime, when King… … GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL: THE CHOIR GLOUCESTER when King Canute, on the representation of St. Wulstan,Bishop of Worcester, placed Benedictine monks there,and Edric was blessed as the first abbot of Gloucester. At first the foundation did not appear to prosper, andit was not until William the Conqueror…
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