Lefroy, William Chambers · London : Seeley and Co., limited; New York, Macmillan & Co. · leaf 34
a dozen, of which noother remains are to be found. Most of these, how-ever, seem, like the original foundation of St Ilildat Whitby, to have belonged to an earlier and ]perfect system than the Benedictine. It was thebishops and monks of Scotland who, after the con-version of the Saxons, did for… … K> fut. 57. Marys, York 17 by them in Yorkshire before the Danish invasionof 832. Of these, Lastingham, founded in 648, andWhitby, about eleven years later, were the first. Theearly foundations were troubled now by the attacksof the Danes, and now by the support given bySaxon kings to the…
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