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bearing the several dedications here commemorated, all included 
in the pomcBrium of the city which the Angles found when 
they first occupied Northumbria, all within the walls of the 
later Norman city. The accompanying map shows their 
position, relatively to the former:— 
S. Saviour’s in St. Saviourgate, 
S. Mary’s in Castlegate, 
S. Martin’s in Coney Street, 
S. Cuthbert’s in Peasholme Green, 
All Saints’ in the Pavement. 
If my restoration of this inscription be correct, and I am 
satisfied that it conveys the purport of what is lost, (whether in 
the exact words or not), it will appear that Sinuit was the 
owner of the land set apart for the establishment of this 
monastery. Efrard, Grim, and ^se may have been the abbot, 
prior, and subprior, engaged in its establishment, and of all the 
dates which I have said are possible, that which I have 
supplied seems to me the most probable, for the seventh and 
eighth centuries were emphatically the age of the foundation of 
monasteries in Northumbria, as the ninth was that of their 
complete destruction by the invading Danes. Had so important 
a monastery as this been consecrated a.d. 716,1 think it would 
have been recorded in the Ecclesiastical History of Yen. Bseda; 
as it is not, I prefer a.d. 756. Neither here nor in the dedica¬ 
tion record of S. Paul’s, Jarrow, is the name of the consecrating 
prelate mentioned; but as he would be, under ordinary cir¬ 
cumstances, the bishop of the see at the time, the date would 
be considered as sufiicient indication. 
In the eleventh century the work of re-building churches on 
the sites of the old monasteries, (not of restoring the monas¬ 
teries), began; and at Kirkdale we have the record of one such 
re-building immediately before the Norman Conquest. The 
earliest restorations of monasteries were those of Whitby and 
Jarrow after the Conquest. With regard to this, we find all 
the churches which it had comprized, except that of S. Saviour, 
named in the Domesday survey, (this apparently had not then 
been re-built); and besides them we have Holy Trinity, (which 
I would suppose is the church in King’s Court), Holy Cross in 
