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the Annales de Burton, page 245, states “A.D. 1229 
Laurentus monk of Burton succeeds Richard and is made 
Abbot of Burton September gth, and is installed in the 
second feast of Saint Modwenna by John de Stretton at 
that time prior of the same house and Nicholas sub-prior.” 
Our next notice is during the Abbacy of John Sudburis, 
1400-1424, when ‘John Babe, prior and sacrist, made a 
new feretory for S. Modwenna.” 
William Mathew, Abbot 1424-1430, ‘fin the month June 
in his second year finished the stonework between Andrewsey 
and Horseholme.” 
Thomas Feyld, Abbot 1472-1493. ‘‘He re-built the 
Chapel of S. Modwen in Andressey the old one being 
pulled down.”’ In connection with this we find mention 
that a marble stone with a cross engraved on it, branched 
like a tree that lay in the middle before the High Altar 
which covered the remains of Thomas Packington, Abbot 
1280-1205, was removed by Thomas Field to Andressey 
and laid over the tomb of S. Modwenna the Virgin. 
We are not told how the first tomb of S. Modwen was 
covered, but we have a notice that Abbot Feylde did 
remove a marble stone with a cross in the form of a 
branched tree that covered the remains of Abbot Thomas 
Packington, who died 1305, and laid it upon the Tomb of 
S. Modwen the Virgin. I here put in an extract from a 
letter from Sir William Bassett to Cromwell (MS. Cotton 
cleop E. IV folio 238) in the Brit: Mus: ‘I send unto 
your Lordschype by thys beyrer my bro Francis Bassett 
the ymages off Sentt Anne off Buxtone and Sennt Mudwen 
of Burton upon Trent.” 
Wright, in the ‘Suppression of the Monasteries,” p. 142-3, 
says, ‘“‘the image probably stood over the well still (de. in 
1843) known by the name of Modwen’s Well.” The more 
likely place I should say would be in the little chapel on 
Andressey, evidently it was considered a ‘superstitious 
