[30] See Histoire de Sainte Radegonde, Reine de France, in Chap. XX, par Em. Briand, Paris, 1897.
[31] Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, Lib. IV, Cap. 23.
[32] The Monks of the West, Book XI, Chap. II.
[33] Vol. I, pp. 46 and 49, New York, 1871.
[34] Op. cit., Book XI, Chap. II.
It will interest the reader to know that Cædmon has a place among the saints in the Acta Sanctorum of the Bollandists. See the special article on him in Vol. II, p. 552, under the caption of "De S. Cedmono, cantore theodidacto."
[35] Woman Under Monasticism. Chapter IV, § 2, by Lina Eckenstein, Cambridge, 1896. In this chapter is an interesting account of the Anglo-Saxon nuns who were among the correspondents of Boniface.
[36] The reader will recall Chaucer's account in the Canterbury Tales of the wife of the well-to-do miller of Trumpyngton:
"A wyf he hadde y-comen of noble kyn;
She was y-fostred in a nonnerye.
There dorste no wight clepen hir but 'Dame;'
What for hire kynnrede and hir nortelrie,
That she had lerned in the nonnerie."
—Reeve's Tale.
[37] Pp. 78, 79, London, 1897.