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gentry at Tamworth Castle hada vision at night of a”nunne with a croyse(crosier)\"in her hand who told him to make restitution or heshould perish.  \n\"And the seyde lady him smotte undyr the sidewith the poynt of hur croyse,so vanished awey,andthe seyde Robert cryde with a right feyrefull cry andcontinually cryde as a woyde(mad)man”until hisguests cam;and he had made confession to a priestand promised restitution.It was done,and he washealed,and Marmions and Somerviles \"have theirburyings\"at Polesworth.Marmion came to be hon-  \nA merely parochial newsletter of St.Mark's Parish,Denver,Colorado.April 2002Vol.cxxvii No.iv  \noured as founder,and was so regarded in Leland's  \nM.R.James,LITT.D.,F.S.A.,F.B.A.,Provost of EtonAbbeys,THE GREAT WESTERN RAIL  \ntime;but we are justified in retaining the earlier date  \nPADDINGTON STATION LoNDQs,925of foundation.(Order of St.Benedict,Nuns)EAR Tamworth,had a longhistory.A roll,written in oldEnglish and more wonderfullyspelt than most that I have seen,isprinted by Dugdale.The original is notknown to exist.\"In the wolde tyme,\"it begins,\"the londe of Englonde wasdepartyde abowt in mony kings,\"andone of them was Egbryght,whosechildren were Arnulf and Edith.Arnulfwas a leper,incurable.But there came\"a boschoppe from Hyrelond towardsthe king's cowrte,\"who told him ofthe virtues of St.Modwenna-\"a wolly(holy)lady a nune\"then living in Ire-land,and advised him to send Arnulfto her.He was sent and was healed.  \nPolesworth was marked forsuppression along with othersmall houses in 1536,but even theCommissioners were impressedwith the good character of thehouse,and wrote to ThomasCromwell,pleading for its contin-uance.They speak of the AbbessAlice Fitzherbert,aged sixty,as\"avery sadde discrete and relygyouswoman who hath byn heed andgovernor these XXVII yeres,andin the same howse ar XII vertuousand relygyous nunnes....As wethinke,ye shall not speke in thepreference of a better nonnerynor of better women.”The townof Polesworth wholly depends onthe nunnery and will be ruined bythe suppression,\"and the peopletherin to the nombre of VI or VIIscore persones are nott unlikely  \nPolesworth  \nN  \nto wander and to seke for their lyvyng.”On paymentof fifty pounds the nuns were given letters of protec-tion from being disturbed.But when the final Act forGeneral Suppression was passed,these were null.Theannual value of the house was πo exclusive of feesreceived for the education of a number of children ofgentle birth.  \nLater on,Modwenna's nunnery was laid waste,\"bornydand dystride,\"so she came to England,and Egbryghtentrusted his daughter Edith to her.Under ModwennaEdith took the veil,and her father founded and endowedPolesworth Abbey for her,where she became first Ab-bess.This is all confused and wrong,say later authorities.Edith lived in the tenth century(in 980)and Modwennain the seventh.More likely(though not certainly true)isthe story that makes Edith the sister of King Athelstanand daughter of Edward the Elder,given in marriage byher brother to Sitric,the heathen Danish king of Nor-thumbria,who was to become a Christian.He did not;herepudiated his bride,and she took the veil.In any case,St.Edith of Polesworth must not be confused with St.Edithof Wilton,her contemporary.  \nThe gate house and the church are the chiefremains of Polesworth Abbey.The former is a pictur-esque building,stone below and timber above,withsome twelfth-century work in it.The upper part makesan excellent parish clubroom.  \nThe church does not contain many evidencesof conventual arrangements;but it possesses the oneeffigy of an Abbess remaining in England,and this is  \nof the twelfth century.She has her crosier and book,and her feet rest on a stag.  \nThere are other good tombs-one,of Isabel Cock-ayne (1447),in particular-and the whole building,withits remarkable tower in the north-east angle of the nave,well deserves 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