George,
do you or does anyone else know how (and maybe which) of Botolph's relics
got to Boston? the Bury St Edmunds documents (edited by Thomas Arnold in
the Rolls SEries in 1896) talk of how parts of the relics went (from
Blythburg I believe) to Bury early in the eleventh century - there are
links with Edgar as well, who kept part of the saint in his treasury, so
that Cnut was then able to grant it out. (if it sounds confused, it may
be as much my interpretation as that in the sources which isn't toatlly
straightforward)
But did it then get to Boston later?
many thanks,
Georges Whalen
Centre for Medieval Studies
University of Toronto
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