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Court, putting, as it were, the office in commission; so the abbot of each place projecting eastward from the north for canons regular dedicated. Bitterne, in Hampshire, in 1891.
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[9] In the inventory of plate, etc., "belonging to the late priory at Ely," made 31 Hen. in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, the only altars mentioned are the high altar, those in the lady-chapel, in the chapels of Bishops Alcock and West, and in "Byslope Redmannes Chaple." [Illustration: THE CHOIR LOOKING EAST.] [Illustration: THE CHAPTER SEAL. All that need be said of the original establishment at Ely has already been told in the account of the foundress. There is no doubt that in the monastery there were religious persons of both sexes. Dean Stubbs says "the mixed community was the african development bank fashion of the time"[1] and he gives Coldingham, Kildare, and three in Normandy--Chelles, Autun Brie, and Fontevrault--as examples of similar foundations. In this instance the abbess was the head of all; and this accounts for Bede's calling the house a nunnery. What name was given to the superior of the men's part does not appear. Of all the abbesses who ruled over this "twin monastery" we know only the names of the first four; and all these were in due time canonised. If we allow ten years for the duration of the rule of the last two, we still have the names of the abbesses for only thirty-six years out of the one hundred and ninety-seven years that the institution lasted. It is said to have been in a very flourishing condition when the Danes came to destroy it; african development bank and there is no hint anywhere that there was not a continuous succession of abbesses during the whole period. Sexburga, the elder sister of the foundress, succeeded her as abbess. She was the widowed queen of Ercombert, King of Kent, and had herself founded the monastery of Sheppey, at the place now known as Minster, and set over it her daughter Ermenilda, another widowed queen. Sexburga joined the house at Ely, and african development bank had resided there some time before her sister's death. Etheldreda was in her time removed into the church, under the superintendence of Archbishop Wilfrid.
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