Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . ood. The material isgreen brocaded velvet, spangled with golden stars and figured Avith lilies, finely worked into the fabric. This altar-cloth wasapparently made about the year 1450, or perhaps a quarter of a centuryearlier. The nuns are closely associated with the earliest history of the abbey,which was founded in a small way by Edward the Elder about 910 ; and itmust have been very soon converted to the purposes of an insignificant at first was only poorly endowed, but Edwards grand
Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . ood. The material isgreen brocaded velvet, spangled with golden stars and figured Avith lilies, finely worked into the fabric. This altar-cloth wasapparently made about the year 1450, or perhaps a quarter of a centuryearlier. The nuns are closely associated with the earliest history of the abbey,which was founded in a small way by Edward the Elder about 910 ; and itmust have been very soon converted to the purposes of an insignificant at first was only poorly endowed, but Edwards grandson, Edgar, able toturn his attention from the alarms of war to the arts of peace, pushed its for-tunes, aided by Archbishop Dunstan of Canterbury, along with those of otherchurches throughout the recently distracted country. In Edgars reign, RomseyAbbey was accordingly enlarged and rebuilt under Ethelwold, Bishop ofWinchester, and was opened by the king in presence of his nobility on ChristmasDay in the year 974. High patronage without stint fell to the share of the abbesses of Romsey,. CHRISTCHUUCH : THE RINGINO-ROOM 418 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [Christchurch some of whom were themselves of the Hnoage of Saxon kings. Marivanna, alady of noble blood and exemplary piety, was the first abbess, and her dayswere those of peace. Stormy times distm-bed the reign of her successor Elwina,for the troublesome Dane and his warlike marauders pushed up the Test as far asRomsey, and pillaged the abbey. The abbess and her nuns, having received, as the
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