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HAMP-SHIRE.
1. ••edbridge.
HEre, Camden tells us, was that ancient Mo∣nastery call'd by Bede, (Eccl. Hist. Lib. 4. Cap. 16.) Arundinis vadum, or Redford.
2. Winchester.
Altho' the foundation of the Church and Bishoprick here, may be ascribed to Kinewalcus King of the West-Saxons about A. D. 640. yet the original of the Monasterya 1.1 was of later date; for it was in A. D. 963. that Ethelwold the Bishop by the command of King Edgar, expell'd the Secular Canons, and placed here Monks of the Order of St. Bennet, who remain'd till the general Suppression, at which time they were endowed with 1507l. 17s. 2d. per an. St. Swithin was the Tutelar Saint of this Church. King Henry VIII. in the room of the Monks, put in a Dean and twelve Prebendaries.
Vid. Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 31, 979. Angl. Sacr. T. 1.
Annales Winton. in Bibl. Cotton. Domit. A. 13.
* Cartas Originales & Registra penes Decanum & Capitulum.
3. Winchester.
A Benedictine Nunnery built by Alswitha wife