S. MODWEN AND "tHE DEVILL OF DRAKELOWE." 57 



against the marauders and fought them. The count's steward 

 was killed, and the rest saw visions of the saint's bones when 

 those who were killed in the fight were buried, and all the Earl's 

 men died suddenly.' 



The manuscript here is at points illegible ; but it appears 

 from the remainder, that spectres appeared at Drakeloiv where 

 the two rustics were buried, and they continued to haunt the 

 graves until the dead bodies were exhumed and burnt. The 

 story ends thus:— "And, therefore, the village of Drakelow 

 became forsaken and desolate, and for a long time afterwards 

 none were found so bold as to dwell therein, fearing the 

 judgment of the Lord." 



Addenda. ( Vide Dugdale's Motiasticon). 



William Melhuurne, thirteenth abbot of Burton, gave to 

 the chapel in Andersey 12'' issuing out of the burgage of 

 Robert de Pecco in Burton, because Geoffry the Bishop 

 commanded him to endow it ivith something at the dedication 0/ 

 the same. This William became abbot in 1197, and died 12 10. 

 It was then, during his rule, and about the commencement of 

 the thirteenth century, that the ancient Saxon oratory of S. 

 Modwen, perhaps of wood, was replaced by a more substantial 

 structure of stone. 



Thomas Pakington, nineteenth abbot of Burton, died on Thurs- 

 day on the Kalends of October, 1305, and was buried in the middle 

 before the high altar, under a marble stone with a cross upon it 

 in the form of a branched tree {modo lignifrondosi)* which same 

 stone was afterwards removed to Andersey by Thomas f^eylde, 

 abbot, and it lies upon the tomb of Saint Modwen the virgin. 



Camden {Ric. Gough's edit., II., 497) gives the following lines 

 as having been written on her tomb " by way of epitaph " : — 

 " Ortum Modwenna dat Hibernia ; Scotia finem : 

 Anglia dat tumulum : dat Deus astri poli. 



* .See " Cutis' Sepulchral Slabs and Crosses " for examples : Plates xvi.- 

 xviii. and plate L. 



