Lefroy, William Chambers · London : Seeley and Co., limited; New York, Macmillan & Co. · leaf 38
rkable, however, that Stephen, tin: first Abbot of St. Marys, who has left us a very circum- ntial account of the foundation, makes no mention at all of Elfwill or of any earlier building, except the Church of St. Olaves. lb- simply relates how. being harassed at Whitby by pirates on the one hand,… … ST. MARY S, YORK St. Marys, York 21 St. Olaf, the martyred king of the Northumbrians,had, as Mr. Freeman points out, become, by themiddle of the eleventh century, a favourite object ofreverence, especially among men of Scandinaviandescent. In his honour Earl Siward had reared achurch in a suburb of…
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