Historical Legends of Northamptonshire
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The 54 LEGENDS OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
saciilegious fowls were kept in durance for the night, and, with the break of day, were conjured by the " most reli- gious mayd, " Werburg, never to descend upon " Weedon field " again, and were then set at liberty.
These miraculous doings it probably was which led Alnoth, on the death of St. Werburga, to adopt the con- templative life, and make ready by fasting and prayer for— "that great world afar, That fills and rounds our little life below. " How long he... lived his solitary and eremitical Kfe in his forest cell we are not told ; but he had reached a good old age when, suspected probably of having some hoarded wealth, he was set upon and murdered by a band of thieves that haunted the wilds. His rehcs were preserved with great veneration in the church at Stowe, and in after years his name was enrolled in the calendar of saints. His festival is placed on the 27th of February, in Wilson's first edition of the English Martyrology, but in the second, on the 25th of November.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The 54 LEGENDS OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
saciilegious fowls were kept in durance for the night, and, with the break of day, were conjured by the " most reli- gious mayd, " Werburg, never to descend upon " Weedon field " again, and were then set at liberty.
These miraculous doings it probably was which led Alnoth, on the death of St. Werburga, to adopt the con- templative life, and make ready by fasting and prayer for— "that great world afar, That fills and rounds our little life below. " How long he... lived his solitary and eremitical Kfe in his forest cell we are not told ; but he had reached a good old age when, suspected probably of having some hoarded wealth, he was set upon and murdered by a band of thieves that haunted the wilds. His rehcs were preserved with great veneration in the church at Stowe, and in after years his name was enrolled in the calendar of saints. His festival is placed on the 27th of February, in Wilson's first edition of the English Martyrology, but in the second, on the 25th of November.
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