Bishop of Cornwall, A. D. 1018, predecessor of Lyfingc. 5 These names on the right hand added at a somewhat later period. 6 Here the original MS, in this article ends; the rest of the page in somewhat later handwritings. Brihtpoldus. Willelmus. Marcuinus. fratres nostri 10 ac monachi montis Sancti Michaelis .4 salueð Willelmus monachus. Rodbertus monachus. Ægel mer monachus de Cant[uaria]." p. 41.] NOMINA FEMINARUM ILLUSTRIUM. HUNC SANCTUM LOCUM PRO DEI AMORE DILIGENTIUM. VEL QUAE 15 SE PRECIBUS HUIUS FAMILIę. ELEMOSINARUM LARGITIONE COMMENDAVERUNT. 2 Troarn, a Benedictine abbey in Normandy, diocese of Bayeaux, near Caen. 3 These concluding paragraphs on the lower margin of the page. 4 Mount St. Michael, "in periculo maris," a Benedictine abbey in Normandy, diocese of Avranche. 5 Below this a name almost wholly cut away by the binder's plough. 6 See The Nunnaminster Codex, pp. 5, 6. 7 Nota, on margin in a late hand. 8 Wulf Oryba, abbess [of Wilton, co. Wilts], ob. xi, kal. Oct. MS. Cotton Titus D. xxvii, f. 7b, in the Saxon Calendar of this Newminster MS. Cf. Kemble, Cod. Dipl., No. DLXXXV, A.D. 974 20 25 Herelufu 2 Leofrun 3 Pulfgyð mater Merpynn 1 abbatissa Hrumesig cenobio. abbatissa Sceftesbyrig cenobio. abbatissa Readingan coenobio. Nota.* Ælfgari procuratoris. 1 Merwenna, abbess of Rumsige or Rumsey, co. Hants, occurs in A.D. 966. Kemble, Cod. Dipl., DXX, DXXVIII; Birch, Cartul. Saxon., Nos. 1178, 1179. Dugdale's editors call her Merwenna or Merwinna, and date her accession to the abbacy in A. D. 967. Birch, Fasti, p. 87. 2 Herelufu, abbess of Shaftesbury, co. Dorset, died in A.D. 862, Anglo Saxon Chron., ad. an. Flor. Wigorn called her Hereluve; Birch, Fasti, p. 79. Leofrun, abbess of Reading Nunnery, co. Berks, is a new name to the Fasti of Anglo-Saxon abbesses. 4 Nota, on margin in a late hand. "This is a new name among Anglo-Saxon abbesses. 5 hic probably signifies buried here. It is written in a later hand. 7 Brithmær was abbot of Newminster A. D. 1008-1021, and 1032. Birch, 9 A name unknown to the editors of L'Art de Vérifier les dates, J. Anderson, and other writers upon the history of this period. This Danish lady of royal blood, whose name has been lost in oblivion, appears to have been buried at Newminster, of which abbey her brother King Canute was one of the principal benefactors. 1 Here ends the original handwriting in this list of illustrious women. The remainder of the names are in somewhat later hands. 2 Here the original handwriting begins again. 8 i.e., of Abingdon Abbey, co. Berks. Edgar, on the expulsion of the canons, introduced Benedictines from Abingdon into New Minster. "Canonicos ejeci, monachos de Abindonia loco substitui."' -Edgar's Charter, A.D. 966, Birch, Cartul. Saxon., No. 1191. incorrigibiles He died viij kal. Jun. Titus D., xxvii, f. 5b, Saxon A.D. 984-990, ob. A.S. Chr. A. D. 990-1016. A.S. Chr. 5 10 15 20 |