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6. Osney.
A. D. 1129. Rob. D' Oily built a Priory of Canons Augustines here to the honour of the blessed Virgin. Its yearly revenues at the Disso∣lution were worth 654l. 10s. 2d. Dugd. 755l. 18s. 6d. Speed. Upon the erection of the new Bi∣shopricks by King Hen. VIII. the Seat of the Bishop of Oxfordshire was placed here, but it was not long after, viz. 1546. translated to Christ-Church Oxon.
Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 136.
Mr. Kennett's Parochial Antiquities of Ambros∣den, Burcester. &c.
Registr. in Bibl. Cotton.
* Reg. in Scaccario penes Remem. Regis D.
* Registra, Rentalia & alia munimenta ad bam Abbatiam spectantia in Thesaurario Aedis Christi, Oxon.
* Historiam fundationis Abbatiae de Osney per Will. Wyrley MS. in Bibliotheca Henr. Worsley de Hosp. Lincoln. Arm.