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The
said Monastery first was built of St. Hilde,
Daughter to Kinge Edwyn, yt tyme a place
Of Nunnes of the wch place shee was the first Abbas
By inspiration devine but longe after it was
Made desolate & destroide by the Danes Cruelty
But the said ffirst Lord William Pearcie soone after ye Conquest
caused ye said house of Whitby to bee built againe as hee thought best.
Daughter to Kinge Edwyn, yt tyme a place
Of Nunnes of the wch place shee was the first Abbas
By inspiration devine but longe after it was
Made desolate & destroide by the Danes Cruelty
But the said ffirst Lord William Pearcie soone after ye Conquest
caused ye said house of Whitby to bee built againe as hee thought best.
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