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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.