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The Latin of them, as given in the "Liber Eliensis," runs thus: Ely minster was, however, not a cathedral in Canute's time; and it is a strange poetical licence that can describe an evening just before the Feast of the Purification as a "summer day." Perhaps the greatest distinction belonging to the monastery at this period was the honour of having educated King Edward the Confessor.
All these incidents have been sufficiently explained in the chapter on the history of the building, with the exception of the seventh. The authority for this is the "Liber Eliensis." A man named Brytstan, being ill, had vowed that if he were restored to health he would become a monk.
"Chronicon Angliæ Petriburgense," p. 57, sub anno 1072. Bentham says, "after he had lived too years complete." The "Liber Eliensis" says he was in his eighty-seventh year when appointed abbot; if so, he was nearly, but not quite, one hundred years old at his death. "Chronicon Angliæ Petriburgense," sub anno 1102. Ely thus became a cathedral of the kind that was called conventual cathedrals.
In the "Liber Eliensis" the limits of the isle are given as seven miles in length by four in breadth, while the extent of the two hundreds belonging to Ely reaches from Tydd to Upware and from Bishop's Delf to Peterborough. We have many examples of large inland districts where a series of rivers has happened to isolate them being known as isles.
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