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XXVI. Observations on a Charter in Mr. Astle's Library, which is indorsed, in a hand co-eval with it; “Hæc est Carta Regis Eadgari, de institutione Abbatie Eliensis, et duplicatus.” Addressed to the Earl of Leicester, President, Feb. 16, 1791

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Before I enter upon an inquiry into the authenticity of this Charter, it may be proper to premise, that Saint Etheldreda, one of the daughters of king Anna, and wife, first to Tonbert, prince of the southern Gervii, and afterwards to Egfrid, king of Northumberland, is reported to have founded at Ely, about the year 673, a religious society both for monks and nuns, who lived together under the government of an abbess. In this state the society continued till the year 870, when it was destroyed by the Danes.

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Archaeologia , Volume 10 , 1789 , pp. 226 - 231
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1789

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page 226 note [a] The people inhabiting the South of Lincolnshire, Rutland, Northampton, and Huntingdoshire, were antiently called Gervii. These had princes of their own, dependant nevertheless on the Mercian kings.

page 230 note [b] Pat. I. Ric. II. p. 5. m. 34.