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Elias of Trekingham

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

a monk of the 13th century, was born at Trekingham, Lincolnshire — a village since depopulated — was a monk of Peterborough, doctor of divinity in Oxford, a learned man, and a great lover of history, writing a chronicle from A.D. 625 to 1270, when he probably died. See Fuller, Worthies of England (ed. Nuttall), 2:287.