This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ... 223 CHAPTER IX, ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. DGAR, the royal patron of Ramsey Abbey, soon after its foundation, presented the church of Godmanchester to that religious house, and the confirmation of his grant, as preserved by the monks of Ramsey, to the suppression of monastic institutions in the reign of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ... 223 CHAPTER IX, ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. DGAR, the royal patron of Ramsey Abbey, soon after its foundation, presented the church of Godmanchester to that religious house, and the confirmation of his grant, as preserved by the monks of Ramsey, to the suppression of monastic institutions in the reign of Henry 8th, is the most antient notice of a church in Godmanchester. That a church or oratory was sustained in Godmanchester by the Anglo-Saxons, and continued during its Danish occupation, we may readily admit, Christianity having been the prevailing religion in the former period, and the East-Anglian Danes, under Guthrum or Athelstan, not only having submitted to baptism but practised Christian rites, as is evinced by the coins" of " The tail-piece to this Chapter is a faithful delineation of a coin of Guthrum, in the curious and valuahle collection of Joseph that monarch bearing the cross. The Abbey of Ramsey was founded A. D. 969, b by Earl Ailwine, in conjunction with Oswald, Archbishop of York; and the endowment of Edgar was effected through the instrumentality of Oswald, who was subsequently its Prior, and ultimately Abbot. The register" of Barratt, Esq., of Bath. On the obverse, in Saxon characters, is the inscription Aethilstan--on the reverse is Mon. Monet or Mon his Monneycr. " His coins, of which several varieties have been preserved, must have been struck subsequently to his conversion, as they all bear his Anglo-Saxon name, and are marked with the symbol of Christianity. They resemble in type those of his predecessor, excepting that the letters AN are never added to his title. The first of these letters, however, is frequently found within the inner circle of the obverse."--Ruding's Ann. of the Coinage of Britain, vol. i. p. 241....
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