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against the imputation on which the change of the priory 

 into a college was founded. 



But whatever may be thought of the suggestion here 

 offered, the singularity of a female being buried in a mon- 

 astery, and in such a prominent situation of the Abbey 

 church, together with the mysterious obscurity of the epi- 

 taph in not giving the name of the priory in which she was 

 a nun and prioress, and the obscure, abbreviated form in 

 which she is described, — all these are circumstances which 

 excite investigation, and the present paper is an attempt at 

 their solution. 



