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GLASTONBURY ABBEY.
and generals defired to be buried there, becaufe the founder,
St. Jofeph, had buried the Lord. Continually new grants of
eftates and privileges were made to it by kings and great men
and women, till in time it became the moft wealthy and mag-
nificent monaftery, as well as the moft ancient, in the kingdom.
Amongft the principal donors of land were king Arthur, king
Domp, king Cenewalch, king Baldred, Wilfrid archbifhop
of York, king Kinewulph, king Ina, who built the great
church, king Offa, king Egbert, king Athelwulf, king Alfred,
queen Elfleda, king Edwin, king Edgar, king Edmund Ironfides,
Edward the Elder, and Edward the Younger, king Canute,
befides many other kings, queens, dukes, and noble men and
ladies.
Amongft the chief perfons interred in the church and the
cemetery were numbers of faints and biftiops, as well as kings ;
of courfe, Jofeph of Arimathea and his fon, the biftiop of
Shiraz, Phaganus and Diruvianus, the reftorers of the place ;
St. Dunftan, one of the moft famous of Glaftonbury abbots,
and archbifhop of Canterbury, renowned for his pinching the
devil’s nofe with hot tongs, but by his cotemporaries more
renowned for his active genius. He built a fmall room near
the oratory, where he worked. He wrote, he painted, he
carved cups and croftes and other articles, as well as made
veftments for the mafs, which our author fays were kept to
his time. He was deeply verfed in hiftorical ballads, and the
magical fongs of the Saxons, regarded in thofe dark times with
peculiar horror. St. Urban the pope and martyr lay there,
faints Appollinarius a difciple of the apoftle Peter, and Ofwald,
Patrick, Benignus, Aidan, biftiop of Lindisfarne, the Venerable
Bede ; the bones of St. Gildas the hiftorian, of St. Hilda,
abbefs of Whitby, and of many other abbefies and faintefles.
As for kings and great men, fuch were the numbers brought
GLASTONBURY ABBEY.
and generals defired to be buried there, becaufe the founder,
St. Jofeph, had buried the Lord. Continually new grants of
eftates and privileges were made to it by kings and great men
and women, till in time it became the moft wealthy and mag-
nificent monaftery, as well as the moft ancient, in the kingdom.
Amongft the principal donors of land were king Arthur, king
Domp, king Cenewalch, king Baldred, Wilfrid archbifhop
of York, king Kinewulph, king Ina, who built the great
church, king Offa, king Egbert, king Athelwulf, king Alfred,
queen Elfleda, king Edwin, king Edgar, king Edmund Ironfides,
Edward the Elder, and Edward the Younger, king Canute,
befides many other kings, queens, dukes, and noble men and
ladies.
Amongft the chief perfons interred in the church and the
cemetery were numbers of faints and biftiops, as well as kings ;
of courfe, Jofeph of Arimathea and his fon, the biftiop of
Shiraz, Phaganus and Diruvianus, the reftorers of the place ;
St. Dunftan, one of the moft famous of Glaftonbury abbots,
and archbifhop of Canterbury, renowned for his pinching the
devil’s nofe with hot tongs, but by his cotemporaries more
renowned for his active genius. He built a fmall room near
the oratory, where he worked. He wrote, he painted, he
carved cups and croftes and other articles, as well as made
veftments for the mafs, which our author fays were kept to
his time. He was deeply verfed in hiftorical ballads, and the
magical fongs of the Saxons, regarded in thofe dark times with
peculiar horror. St. Urban the pope and martyr lay there,
faints Appollinarius a difciple of the apoftle Peter, and Ofwald,
Patrick, Benignus, Aidan, biftiop of Lindisfarne, the Venerable
Bede ; the bones of St. Gildas the hiftorian, of St. Hilda,
abbefs of Whitby, and of many other abbefies and faintefles.
As for kings and great men, fuch were the numbers brought