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COLDINGHAM

Volume 3 · 58 words · 1778 Edition

a barren heathy moor on the borders of Scotland. It is only remarkable for a convent formerly filled with most heroic nuns; who, to preserve themselves inviolate from the Danes, cut off their lips and noses; and thus rendering themselves objects of horror, were, with their abbeys Ebba, in 870, burnt in the monastery by the disappointed savages.