[253] Ibid., St Mildwida, Jan. 17.
[254] Stanton, R., Menology of England and Wales, Jan. 17.
[255] ‘Lives of Women Saints’ (written about 1610) p. 64, edited by Horstman for the Early Engl. Text Soc., London, 1887.
[256] Haddon and Stubbs, Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents, 1869, vol. 3, p. 240.
[257] ‘Upmynstre, Suthmynstre, Folcanstan, Limming, Sceppeis.’
[258] Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Whitby,’ vol. 1, p. 405.
[259] Bede, Eccl. Hist., bk 4, ch. 23 transl. Gidley, 1870. Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Hartlepool,’ vol. 6, p. 1618, places the foundation about the year 640.
[260] Bede, Eccl. Hist. bk 3, chs. 24-25; bk 4, chs. 23-24.
[261] A. SS. Boll., St Bega, Sept. 6; Tomlinson, G. C., Life and Miracles of St Bega, 1839.
[262] Carthularium abbathiae de Whiteby, publ. Surtees Soc., 1879.