King Offa is said to have exhumed the body, placed it in a magnificent shrine, and established monks to watch over it in 793; but Bede says that a church was established where the martyrdom took place in 731 A.D.; and Offa is believed to have designed a nobler church which perhaps was not completed by him, but by Eadmer, the 9th Saxon Abbat, and this church existed at the time of the Norman conquest. Paul of Caen, appointed by Lancfranc in 1077 “pulled down the Saxon building and constructed the church entirely anew of stones and tiles taken from the ancient Roman city of Verulam, a great portion of which had been collected by the two last Saxon Abbots.” (Frithric, mentioned in note on page 20, being one of them.) This, then, was substantially the same church which has been restored in these modern times and which became the Cathedral of the new diocese of S. Albans in 1877, when Dr. Claughton was enthroned as Bishop. The reader will find valuable information in 1. _A History of the Abbey of S. Alban_, by DR. NICHOLSON. 2. _Report on the Lady Chapel of S. Alban_, by SIR GILBERT SCOTT. 3. _The Restoration of the Abbey of S. Alban_, by J. CHAPPLE, 1874. 4. _The Restoration of the Abbey Church of S. Alban_, 1876. 5. _A short History of the Abbey Church of S. Alban_, by J. CHAPPLE, 1882. NOTE G.—(_Page 59_). CROWLAND ABBEY. Crowland Abbey was founded by Æthelbald in 716, according to a promise made to the hermit Guthlac who lived there in seclusion for 15 years. The reader will find an account of this recluse in Ordericus who followed what was written by bishop Felix. Ordericus says that the name of Guthlac signified “the gift of war,” and that he belonged to a tribe called Guthlacingas. Gudlacus is the spelling in William of Malmesbury. Ordericus gives his own account of the building of Crowland Abbey as he learnt it on the spot. Æthelbald sent for Kenulph, a monk of Evesham, and granted to him the whole island of Crowland, for the purpose of congregating and supporting a society of monks exempting it for ever from all secular payments and services. _Dugdale’s Monasticon._ NOTE H.—(_Page 61._) RAMSEY ABBEY. Ramsey Abbey was founded by St. Oswald and Æthelwine of East-Anglia, in 969.[260] The Abbey was dedicated to SS. Mary and Benedict and was occupied by the order of “Black Monks.” It became richly endowed to the annual value of about £18000 of present money. NOTE I.—(_Page 61._) THORNEY ABBEY.