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of Reginald, son of Guthfrith, by Anlaf, son of Sitric, I 
leave to the judgment of my readers. 
There is one circumstance, hitherto not taken into account, 
which determines my own. I have said, so remarkable 
a collection of fragments of sepulchral monuments of diffe- 
rent dates indicate the existence, in early times, of a con- 
siderable religious establishment on the site of the Parish 
Church, at Leeds;" and I have shown the probability 
that this was the monastery founded by Mailoc, the brother 
of S. Gildas, in the fifth century, the " monastery of the 
venerable Abbot Thrydwulf, in ELmete Wood,'' mentioned 
by Yen. Baeda, the monastery in which Archbishop Eanbald 
died, in 796. IN'ow, we are expressly informed, that all the 
monasteries of Northumbria, without exception, were de- 
stroyed, (this, therefore, at Leeds, amongst the rest), by 
Halfdene and his followers in 874, and none restored till 
after the Norman conquest. There was no revolution but 
this which could have destroyed so many sepulchral crosses 
and an altar, and converted them into mere building 
materials ; and, satisfied for my own part that their de- 
struction must be referred to the time of Halfdene, I can 
only regard the inscription on this fragment as a memorial 
of the first Olaf. 
The inscription as it stands in Mr. Chantrell's drawing is, 
CUNI /// ONLAF. When the fragment can be examined 
by an experienced eye, I suspect that the second character 
will prove to be Y. The fifth, which is lost, was almost 
certainly NG. I supply these restorations in dotted lines. 
The tombstones at Hartlepool bear respectively the 
names of HILDITHRYTH and HILDDIGYTH; 
the larger having, besides, A & o) above the arms of the 
cross. These have been the subject of a memoir presented 
to the Archaslogical Association in 1845, and of another 
published by Mr. Procter, of Hartlepool, in 1855, and I 
