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Abbey of his good forefather and of the Abbess, his honoured 

 daughter Ethelgede. In the monastery was a chapel called St. 

 Edward's Chapel, in which most likely was his tomb, and a 

 church was afterwards built to his name (St. Edward's) in the 

 town, In the year 1035 the Danish King Cnut (or Canute as our 

 books mostly call him) died at Shaf tesbury and was buried a t 

 Winchester, then the capital of Wessex and England. William 

 of Normandy made Lanfranc Archbishop and so many Norman 

 clergymen were thrust upon the church ; and on looking over the 

 names of Abbesses, which are given in the " History of Dorset,'? 

 I see that, whereas, down to the Norman Conquest, 1066, the 

 names of the Abbesses are Saxon, we find that soon afterwards 

 Norman names came forth 1107, Cicilia, daughter of Bobert 

 "Fitz Hamon, Amicia Russell (Roussel), Agnes de Feriers, 

 Margaret Auchier, That a British population were found a^, 

 Shaftesbury at the settling of the Saxons, and dwelt on beside 

 them, we may well believe. The laws of King Ina of Wessex, 

 688, show clearly that, in his time, Britons of sundry ranks, free 

 as well as unfree, were living in Wessex under his law. Now 

 Shaf tesbury has had 12 or 13 churches 1, St. Mary (the Abbey) ; 

 2, S. Peter; 3, Holy Trinity ; 4, S. Lawrence; 5, S. Martin; 6, 

 S. Andrew ; 7, S. Eombald, now in St. Peter's Parish ; 8, S. 

 James; 9, All Saints'; 10, S. Edward; 11, S. John; 12, S t 

 Mary, now in S. James' Parish. Why should Shaftesbury have 

 had so many churches ? and Sherborne, an old Saxon town, till 

 of late only one ? It is markworthy that our cities which w ere 

 British or Roman and that had a British population at the 

 incoming of the Saxons have seemingly had more than enough 

 of churches. Mr. Kerslake, some time ago, caught a glimpse at 

 Exeter of an historical truth that there were for a time two 

 quarters, a British and an English quarter. When the Saxons 

 became Christians, as the Britons were long ere the coming of 

 Hengest, they did not go into communion with the Britons, and 

 built themselves churches, and so there were British and Saxon 

 churches, two sets. But what clue is there to the British 

 churches, as such, and not Saxon ones. The dedication, as that of 



