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Sherburn-in-Eluiet, and seven from Barwick, may very 
well have been comprehended within its limits ; and as 
there does not appear to be any other place which will 
agree with the terms of this notice in the life of St. 
Gildas, we may safely conclude that the monastery which 
St. Mailoc founded in the fifth century, was here. Again, 
Simeon of Durham, tells us that Eanbald, Archbishop 
of York, died in the monastery which is called Etlete, 
August 10, A.D. 796. Roger of Hoveden, gives the 
name Mt Lsete, showing that in this, as in many other 
instances, (such as iEt Corabrige for Corbridge, iEt 
Stanforda for Stamford,) iEt is merely the preposition 
prefixed, and that the name is Laete ; and there is no place 
but Leeds which will answer to this name. Here, then, 
Eanbald died, and from this monastery his body was 
conveyed in solemn procession to York for interment. 
The probability being admitted that Leeds is indicated 
in both these notices, we seem to gain a clue to the situation 
of " the monastery of the Venerable Abbot Thrydwulf, in 
Elmete Wood," of which Venerable Bseda speaks, and 
where, he says, that to his day the altar was preserved, 
which, because it was of stone, had escaped the fire which 
destroyed the palace of iEdwini " in Campo Dono," and 
the church which St. Paulinus had erected within its pre- 
cincts. Indeed the context makes this probability greater. 
The altar, and whatever could be saved from the fire, 
was, of course, royal property ; and as it may be re- 
garded as certain that the royal family of Northumbria, 
after the destruction of their first residence, established 
themselves in this neighbourhood, we may conclude that 
the monastery in which they placed the altar was not far 
from their new abode. 
That Leeds was the place to which the royal family 
retreated, after the death of iEdwini and destruction of his 
