. The camp of refuge;. PRECINCT OP THE PRIORY OF SPALDING^ PROM DUGDALes MoTtOSticon. INTRODUCTION Ixi iEthelwald built a church of stone as a memorial toS. Guthlac, and around this the monastic buildingsgathered; They were destroyed by the Danes whenthey invaded the country in 806. Ninety years laterAbbot Thurk3rtel began a new church, but it was nottill the latter days of the Confessor that the presentbuilding was begun; and, indeed, it is possible thatsome of the older foundations, excavated a few yearsago, were of this date (Arch. Assoc, xxxv. 319). Of Spalding there are practically no rem
. The camp of refuge;. PRECINCT OP THE PRIORY OF SPALDING^ PROM DUGDALes MoTtOSticon. INTRODUCTION Ixi iEthelwald built a church of stone as a memorial toS. Guthlac, and around this the monastic buildingsgathered; They were destroyed by the Danes whenthey invaded the country in 806. Ninety years laterAbbot Thurk3rtel began a new church, but it was nottill the latter days of the Confessor that the presentbuilding was begun; and, indeed, it is possible thatsome of the older foundations, excavated a few yearsago, were of this date (Arch. Assoc, xxxv. 319). Of Spalding there are practically no remains. In1789 the ruins of the priory consisted of some cottages,with Gothic windows, and part of the church and gate-way, but these have since been almost , in the original edition of his Monasticon, givesan engraved plan of the precinct of the priory as itstood in his time, and a reduced wood-block of thisis given in the later edition (vol. iii. p. 214). Two other places sacred to Herewards history arethe remains of the castle at Cambridge, from whichWilliam del
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