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A. D. 787. King Offa built a Nunnery here, and about ten years after, King Kenwulf said the foundation of a stately Abby for three hun∣dred Black Monks, and commended it to the Patronage of St. Mary and St. Kenelm. In suc∣ceeding times it became a College of Seculars; but Oswald Bishop of Worcester A. D. 985. re∣stored again the Benedictines. It was rated 26. H. VIII. at 759l. 11s. 9d. per an.
Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 187. T. 2. p. 854.
Annales MS. de Winchelcumb ab Incarn. Domi∣ni ad A. Ch. 1205. in Bibl. Cotton. Tiber. E. 4.
* Registrum Abb. de Winch. per Richardum Ke∣dermister Abbatem compilatum, continens, 1. Histo∣riam Fundationis hujus Abbatiae. 2. Historiam Ab∣batum de Winchelcomb a Germano Abbate A. D. 988. ad Rich. Kedermister A. D. 1487. 3. Re∣novationes Privilegiornm, Chartarum, ac aliorum mu∣nimentorum Monasterii de Winchelcomb. Hic magni valoris liber, tunc Domini Will, Morton militis pe∣culium in flammis Londinensibus periit. A. D. 1666.