[233] Raine, Historians of the Church of York. Rolls series, vol. 1, Preface, p. xxiii.
[234] It is probable such settlements existed. Dugdale, Monasticon, vol. 3, p. 302, holds a religious foundation to have existed in Tinmouth founded 617-33, but in Bede, Life of Cuthbert, transl. Stevenson, T., 1887, ch. 3, it is referred to as a monastery formerly of men, now of ‘virgins.’
[235] Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Folkestone,’ vol. 1, p. 451.
[236] Hardy, Th. D., Descriptive Catalogue of Materials, 1862, vol. 1, p. 226: ‘the life of Eanswith cannot be traced to any earlier authority than John of Tinmouth († c. 1380) whose account Capgrave († 1484) embodied in his collection of saints’ lives.’ The work of Capgrave, Catalogus SS. Angliae, was printed in 1516; the Kalendre of the newe Legende of Englande, printed 1516 (Pynson), from which expressions are quoted in the text, is an abridged translation of it into English.
[237] Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Folkestone,’ vol. 1, p. 451, nr 2.
[238] Smith and Wace, Dictionary of Christian Biography, 1880, ‘Eanswitha’; also A. SS. Boll., St Eanswida, Aug. 31.
[239] Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Liming,’ vol. 1, p. 452.
[240] Jenkins, R. C., in Gentleman’s Magazine, 1862, August, p. 196 quotes this statement; I do not see where he takes it from.
[241] Stanton, R., Menology of England and Wales, 1887, p. 144.
[242] Hardy, Th. D., Descriptive Catalogue of Materials, 1862, vol. 1, p. 475.