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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Behind these well-authenticated facts however there is the question of why the particular site was chosen by Fitzharding and of what may previously have existed there. The surviving evidence is inconclusive but suggests that there may already have been a long-established religious shrine or chapel on the site although the clues are tantalisingly scarce and imprecise. A local tradition which was recorded by the antiquarian John Leland during the 1540s asserted that the site had been visited by St Augustine of Canterbury ‘the apostle of the English’ during the course of a journey in 603 when he met the leaders of the Welsh or British Christians. It was also affirmed that St Jordan one of the monks who accompanied St Augustine died in Bristol and was buried on or near the site of the later abbey. No less an authority than the Venerable Bede mentions the meeting between St Augustine and the British Christians but there is no other reference to St Jordan. (LL)