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Saint Moodwen. 
By Henry A. Ryz. 
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Read before the Society, November 7 7th, 1898. 
ape yorne my researches into the history of Burton 
Abbey I noted down much about S, Modwen, 
intending to use it as a preface to my Paper on ‘The 
Ground Plan of Burton Abbey” (Vol. III, 3), but finding 
the material so voluminous, I was forced to abandon the 
idea. 
In this paper I Propose to give such an outline of the 
Patron Saint of our Ancient Town of Burton-on-Trent as 
May interest us, trying to reconcile the many accounts and 
their various discrepancies. 
The first notice of a life of S. Modwen I found in the 
‘*Chronicles of Burton,” where, under the account of 
Geoffry, the sixth Abbot, who died A.D. II51, occurs “Hic 
dictavit vitam et Miracula Sanctae Modwenae virginis pro 
qua misit in Hiberniam ut habetur in prohemio ejusdem,”’ 
I next turned to the Acta Sanctorum of the Bollandists, 
and under July Vol. II, p. 297, Pinaeus quotes from this 
