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By the Rev. Canon J. M. J. FLETCHER, M.A. and R.D. 



3TEHE Volume from which the following account of 

 Saint Cuthburga is taken is a folio fourteenth 

 century manuscript, written on vellum, which 

 was, previous to the Dissolution of the 

 Monasteries, in " the library of the Church of 

 St. Mary and St. Ethelfleda-the-Virgin, at 

 Romsey." It is now one of the Lansdowne MSS. 

 in the British Museum (No. 438). In its 

 present condition it consists of 131 folios, in 

 double columns ; and, according to the Index, originally 

 contained the lives of 47 Saints, though the last four and the 

 greater portion of a fifth are now missing. 



The account of St. Cuthburga is fifteenth in order, and 

 occupies six pages (ff. 38b 41b). It will be remembered 

 that Cuthburga, the daughter of Kenred, and sister of Ina the 

 great lawgiver, kings of Wessex, was married to Alfrid, or 



