^Ije iEitrria^c of ^t* Cutljtiurga, 



Mjo toasi aftcrUjitrtis jfountircss of t\)c 



JEonastcrt) at Mimliornc* 



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



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oHE 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 



