Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England . virgin wife of Egfrid of Northumbria,at length obtained her husbands leave to enterupon the religious life, she built herself a doublemonastery on her own estate in the Isle of Ely(673). On her death, she was succeeded as abbessby her sisters Sexburga, Eormenhilda and Werburga,each of whom had previously been abbesses atSheppy. Among the West Saxons, a small community ofIrish monks, at Malmesbury (675), was enlarged byAldhelm, a man of royal extraction, into a greatcentre of religion and learning ; and he and BishopDaniel founded
Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England . virgin wife of Egfrid of Northumbria,at length obtained her husbands leave to enterupon the religious life, she built herself a doublemonastery on her own estate in the Isle of Ely(673). On her death, she was succeeded as abbessby her sisters Sexburga, Eormenhilda and Werburga,each of whom had previously been abbesses atSheppy. Among the West Saxons, a small community ofIrish monks, at Malmesbury (675), was enlarged byAldhelm, a man of royal extraction, into a greatcentre of religion and learning ; and he and BishopDaniel founded a number of small monasteries,as Nutcelle (700) and Bradfield, up and downthat kingdom.* The four priests w^hom Peada, the son of Penda, onhis conversion, took back with him from Northumbriato his Princedom of the Middle Angles, lived togetherin community for some years, till, by the death of * The church at Brad field-on-Avon, recently discovered, unalteredand uninjured, was probably the church of one of these monasteries. 32 PARISH PRIESTS AND THEIR THE MONASTIC PHASE OF THE CHURCH. 33 Penda, his son attained the Kingship of Mercia, andthen Diuma was consecrated Bishop of the Mercians,and established his see at Lichfield. Earconwald(who was afterwards Bishop of London, 674), a manof noble birth, built a monastery for himself atChertsey in Surrey, and a nunnery at Barking inEssex, for his sister Ethelberga. The vales ofWorcestershire and Gloucestershire were famous forthe multitude and grandeur of their monastic institu-tions. A monastic cell is said to have been foundedat Tewkesbury in 675, and one at Deerhurst, by Ethel-mund the ealdorman, at a still earlier date. Osric,the Prince of Wiccii, was probably the founder of Nunnery, Gloucester, and of Bath his brother Oswald founded PershoreAbbey; and their sister Cyneburga was the firstAbbess of Gloucester. Saxulph, Bishop of Lichfield,founded a little religious house of St. Peter, at Wor-cest
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