Identifier: itinerarycompris07stor (find matches)
Title: The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain. Accompanied with descriptions
Year: 1815 (1810s)
Authors: Storer, James, 1771-1853
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: London, Published for the proprietors by Wm. Clarke... J. Murray... S. Bagster... J.M. Richardson... and Sherwood and Co. ..
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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lation, if not, as Mr.Whltaker maintains, the eldest brother cf Alfred the Great.This holy man was a monk of Glastonbury, at which placehe became eminent for his literary attainments, and still morecelebrated for his humility, piety, and devotion. Afterhaving devoted several years to monastic pursuits, he deter-mined to lead the life of an Anchoret, and retired to a se-cluded spot in Cornwall, with only one attendant, Barius,The spot which he selected for his retreat, is described bythe monkish historians as one which abounded in streams,and which was enclosed on every side by lofty hills andalmost impenetrable woods. It was, at that period, calledGuerir-Stoke, from a British saint of that name, to whomthe church was then dedicated ; but was afterwards denomi-nated Neot-Stow, in honour of our saint; its modern appel-lation is Saint Neots. Here he remained seven years as ahermit; he then paid a visit to Rome, and rcturning^ tothe same sequestered place, he founded u monastery, of which
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>C^2^ ^(^qA^ ^L,9vy(y, J.^HshtJtir-AiiJrcpriea-rjAt^j^LfiS. h W. Jarke JTnt Send Strcetr. SAINT NEOT S AND EYNESBURY. lif. was constituted the abbot. Some writers inform us, thatNeot was the first Professor of Theology in Oxford j butthis appears to be very doubtful. At his death, which oc-curred A. D. 877, he was buried in his own conventualciiurch, in Cornwall. His remains did not long repose there, for about themiddle of the tenth century, earl Alric and his wife, Ethc!-fleda, removed the relics of the saint out of Cornwallinto Huntingdonshire. The patron saint having desertedhis monastery, the lands v.ith which it had been endowedfell a prey to the rapacity of power ; for we find, that, in thetime of the Domesday Survey, William, earl of Morton, hadseized upon the possessions of the monks, with the exceptionof a single acre, which the priests still continued to hold.Thus dispossessed of its lands, the Cornish monastery soonfell into decay : the precise time of its extinction is

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