The golden days of the early English church : from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . of many nuns (sanctimoniales\ after a life ofperpetual The fact that she was a great-niece of probably accounts for yEthilburga moving from EastAnglia and settling in Yorkshire. The earlier inscription of^thilburga, or Oedilburga, above quoted is followed by the word lica, separated from it, however, by a line, and is therefore (saysHaigh) the beginning of another memorial. He suggests thatit is the termination of a very rare name, Cuoemlicu, whichoccurs in the list of queens


The golden days of the early English church : from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . of many nuns (sanctimoniales\ after a life ofperpetual The fact that she was a great-niece of probably accounts for yEthilburga moving from EastAnglia and settling in Yorkshire. The earlier inscription of^thilburga, or Oedilburga, above quoted is followed by the word lica, separated from it, however, by a line, and is therefore (saysHaigh) the beginning of another memorial. He suggests thatit is the termination of a very rare name, Cuoemlicu, whichoccurs in the list of queens and abbesses in the Liber On the opposite side of one of the fragments at Hackness wehave another inscription which, says Haigh, after making theobvious corrections of N for M in the fourth line, A for Q in theseventh, suppressing a redundant M in the sixth, and supplying Rin the seventh, reads—Huaetburga, semper tenent memores domustuae te mater amatissima. The memories of thy house always 1 Browne, op. cit. 281 ; Haigh reads Trece[ab]osa. 2 Yorks. Arch, Joitrn., iii. 373-74. 3 SEAL OF ARCHDEACON BOMI-ACE. BEATAAr EMPERTCCDLAIxT E]LP AN IftF jpV EM


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