[333] Dictionary of National Biography, Frideswide.
[334] Stanton, R., Menology of England and Wales, 1887, p. 137: ‘we have no records of Osburg till 1410.’
[335] Ibid., p. 310: ‘there is much obscurity in the history of St Modwenna. It seems that she must be distinguished from one or perhaps two other Irish saints....’ Also Livien, E., ‘On early religious houses in Staffordshire’ in Journal of the British Archaeol. Association, vol. 29, p. 333; Hardy, Th. D., Descriptive Catalogue of Materials, pp. 94 ff.
[336] Stanton, R., Menology of England and Wales, 1887, p. 328.
[337] Bede, Eccles. Hist., bk 4, chs. 7-10.
[338] Dugdale, Monasticon, ‘Barking,’ vol. 1, p. 436.
[339] A. SS. Boll., St Ethelburga, Oct. 11; Stanton, R., Menology of England and Wales, p. 485.
[340] Stanton, R., Menology, calls her Theorigitha but says, p. 36, that she has no day.
[341] A. SS. Boll., St Hildelitha, March 24.
[342] Bede, Eccles. Hist., bk 5, ch. 18.