ors of less distinc- Yorkshire, or rather Northumbria, is said to havebeen thickly strewn with monasteries in the earlydays of St. Cuthbert, the missionary of the seventhcentury. We may certainly trace in various writersthe names of something like a dozen, of which noother remains are to be found.… … SL Marys, York. 5 and monks of Scotland who, after the conversion ofthe Saxons, did for Northumbria what St. Augustinehad done for Kent; and Burton (Monast. Ebor.)mentions that ten monasteries were founded by themin Yorkshire before the Danish invasion of 832. Ofthese, Lastingham, founded in 648,…
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