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FACTS AND SCRAPS. 329
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The Boke Of Seynt Albons.
have been dug up in the neighborhood attest to the extent and magnificence If rumour be of the correct city . and that the Laureate be really engaged
will British upon b 8 a poem once , -more with met frequented her Boadice final , a as overthrow by his pil heroine grims . , Maddened , for the it shrine was b there y of shame St that . Albans and the
of thirsting Londinum Queen for revenge along * the , she hig led h western her barbarian road , where horde the s from rich the plunder , sack her followers
offered illage the by Verulam cityimportant attracted military the cup _j ) osts idity were of neglected , and . the To
flames with p his of the small burning , "but disci temp lined les had band not quelled subsided the when insurrection Suetonius .
, p Legen overlooking d still associates the level banks a particular of the spot Ver with , from Boadicea whence and — it to a green is avoid believed knoll the
she witnessed the final discomfiture of her forces , , i If gnominy this city of beheld a Rom the an t last riump strugg h , destroyed le of the her Britons daughters for and freedom herself , it .
became celebrated in after times as the scene of the death of Alb an , the first English martyr , who perished in the Diocletian his persecution ,
fierce erected and to inroad . whose Every of memory the trac Saxons e of the this . church earl In y vain sanctuary th did at still Uter was bears Pendragon destroyed nam lead in e was the his to the
lands and wild tribes how once faint possessed from the and b sheltering y weary his ancestor he mountain waters must s , — have the of s of Triads salubrious Cambri perished record a , had recover his not defeat des his ,
hopeless tined wounds in been after to attemp times stanched t to to acquire by unravel the a peculi the intricate ar a celebrit meshes y . spring It woul in which , d be
-Suffice the legendary it to history that of some St . centurie Albans s and after its the mart death yr is of enveloped this saint . ,
Offa , Xing of say the Merci , ans , to allay the terrors of a guilty conscience , tery determined for the to perpetual erect a costl maintenance y shrine in his of honor a hundred and found monks a monas of the
order of St . Benedict . But it is not with the monastery we have to dobut with the convent called Sopwell hard by , the residence of
Juliana , Bernersthe author of the " Boke of St . Albons , " and the first is among a quaint the sisterhood legend , rel who ative attained to the foundation to the dignity of this of prioress religious . house There .
Early in of the the twelfth world and century its , vanities as chronicles retired affirm into , the two solitude holy maidens of the , forest weary of Eiwood to pass their time , in prayer and fasting . With
their own handsand assisted solely by unseen intelligences , they _constructed " their winter food to bread was a rude restricte , which cell d by they , in wattling rendered summer the , pal to boug at wild able hs berries of hj trees sopping and with in ro osiers a ots well , in , ;
of which Sopwell suddenl . y Unimag , appeared inative , and anti from quarie whence s , indeed was remote derived , affirm times the that nam and the e existence of this spring can _Tbe traced to more ,
Facts And Scraps. 329
FACTS AND SCRAPS . 329
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 329, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/41/
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