...cules Promontory, a cape which thrusteth itself •forth into the Severn sea, and retaineth some shadow of its antiquity to this day, being known by the name...king Henry the second, yet they confederated with Endo, viscount of Porchoit, who sought to usurp upon the duchy of Britanny. For which cause the king...

...man's relics, to whose memory Githa, the wife of Earl Godwin, built a small monastery, because she verily believed, that through his merits, her husband had escaped shipwreck in a dangerous tempest. This manor, during the Conqueror's reign, was in the possession of Barons Dinar it, afterwards called...

...Giltha, Earl Godwin's wife, erected an abbey to the memory of S. Nectan, whom she highly reverenced, and verily believed, that through his merits, her...husband had escaped shipwreck in a dangerous tempest."* This manor, during the Conqueror's reign, was in the possession of Barons Dinant, afterwards called...

...become Earl of Wessex until the following year.1 We are told that she highly reverenced St. Nectan, and verily believed that, through his merits, her...husband had escaped shipwreck in a dangerous tempest, presumably off our wreck-strewn coast. As a thank-offering she founded a collegiate church of secular...