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p- 9, Rolls Edition,” giving a clue to the origin of the name of 
Evesham. It recorded that one Eegwin, a “humble bishop 
of Wicci,” who lived in the reign of Ethelred, was frequently 
favored by visions, and having, he writes, “an ardent desire 
in my mind if God would prosper my longings, to build a 
place to the praise of our Lord, and the blessed Virgin Mary, 
and all the elect of God, as well as for my own eternal reward 
before I depart from this mutable life,” besought the King to 
bestow Hethomme upon him, and the King granted his request. 
At this place the Virgin Mary had appeared to a herdsman 
named Koves. Subsequently she also appeared to Ecgwin, 
and he immediately purified the spot and built a monastery 
there; and in consequence of the sanctity of Hoves he named 
the place Eovesham. This extract was regarded by the writer 
as throwing light upon two curious pictures, the mystical 
subjects of which sorely puzzled the Archzologists on the 
occasion of their visit to the old Manor House at Little 
Washbourn, in August, 1879, in which a peasant was repre- 
sented in the dress of the period, with another in the habili- 
ments of an abbot or other such ecclesiastic; and in each 
picture, the narrator believed, was a representation of the 
Virgin. 
Dr. F. Coox, of Cheltenham, then read a short paper on a 
skeleton and certain remains found therewith, two years ago, 
in a quarry a few hundred yards to the south of the Roman 
camp on Crickley Hill. The skeleton was that of an adult, 
and from the character of the bones and the objects of female 
ornament which accompanied it, was judged to be that of a 
female. Within a few days another skeleton had been dis- 
covered in the same quarry, which from the objects found with 
it, was believed to be that of a male. The skeleton of the 
first-named individual was in a perfect state of preservation, 
not a bone being wanting, whereas those of the latter, from 
being saturated with moisture, would scarcely bear the handling. 
The great difference in the condition of each was the depth 
from the surface at which the bodies respectively lay, the lady 
having five feet of Oolite above her, while the male lay within 
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