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NOTE. St. Neot, who died c. 877, lived as a hermit near Bodmin Moor, where he established a small monastery. He had shrines at Glastonbury in Cornwall, where he had founded his monastery, and in Cambridgeshire, founded c. 1086.

Gerveys swears by St. Note, MillT 3771.

Skeat (V: 111) notes that in some manuscripts the name appears as Noet, derived from OE Neot and ME Neet. Note seems to be a variant of these and appears medially.

D.H. Farmer, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, 289-290; A. MacDonald, "Absolon and Neot." Neophilologus 48 (1964): 235-237; M.P. Richards, "The Miller's Tale: "By Saint Note.'" ChauR 9 (1975): 212-215.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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