Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 323
te, rising majestically 250 feet above the sea,and approached across the deep valleys and mountainwastes of the Vale of Pickering. ... In the midst of thestorm or sea-fog the chime of its great bells cheered thesailors seeking refuge on that terrible coast, and in thedarkness of night the pale… … WHITBY The story of Whitby, or as it was then called Streanes-halch—^which St. Bede tells us meant Lighthouse bay —goes back on the earliest days of Saxon Christianity.In 655 Oswy, King of Northumbria, attacked by Pendaof Mercia and Cadwalla, vowed to found twelve monas-teries if successful in the…
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