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- Bygone Essex, Ed by W. Andrews
Bygone Essex Ed by W Andrews
Author:
William Andrews
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1892 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book
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s for free. Excerpt: St. ©stb's priory. By John T. Pare. IN those far off days when England was divided into the seven kingdoms of the Saxon Heptarchy, Frithewald, the first Christian King of the East Angles, took to wife Walburga, daughter of Penda, King of the Mercians. In due time a daughter was born to them, who received the name of Osyth. During her early girlhood, Osyth's education was entrusted to Elfleda, a sister of Alfred, King of Northumbria, who resided at St. Modwen. One day the young child accidentally fell into the river and was drowned, and her body lay in the water three days before it was recovered. Notwithstanding this, St. Modwen, the Saxon Saint, from whom the place received its name, came and prayed over it, and life was restored. Soon after this remarkable episode, Osyth's parents betrothed her to Sighere, King of Essex, but her religious views developed in such a markedmanner that in the end she chose rather to take the veil than to marry her royal lover. Her escape from matrimony was a very narrow one as will be seen. The wedding feast was in progress when suddenly a fine stag was observed to pass by the house. Sighere's enthusiasm for the chase was so great that he could by no means resist the prospect of a fine hunting expedition. Hastily summoning his followers by a blast on his horn, he mounted his steed, and hied him to the woods in pursuit of the stag. When he returned, his bride was missing, she having fled with her maids to the nearest religious house. Sighere, as a wise man, realised his position at once, and so far from resenting the loss of his lady love, he heartily sympathised with ...
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ISBN-13:
9781150035401
ISBN-10:
1150035404
Publication Date:
12/18/2009
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