Notitia monastica, or, A short history of the religious houses in England and Wales by Thomas Tanner ...

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Title: Notitia monastica, or, A short history of the religious houses in England and Wales by Thomas Tanner ...
Author: Tanner, Thomas, 1674-1735.
Publication: Oxford :: Printed at the Theater and are to be sold by A. and J. Churchill ...,; 1695.
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Subject terms: Monasteries -- England.; Monasteries -- Wales.
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1. Litchfield.

KIng Oswy A. D. 656. built a Cathedral Church, and placed here a Bishop for the Kingdom of Mercia. King Offa about A. D. 786. made it an Arch-bishops See, which honour it enjoy'd for ten years, and then was again sub∣jected to Canterbury. It was translated A. D. 1075. to Chester, and from thence to Coventry A. D. 1102. but the Bishops being not long after settled here again, Bishop Clinton about A. D. 1140. built a new Cathedral Church, and restored and augmented the Chapter.

Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 216. Angl. Sacr. T. 1. p. 423.

* Registra, Cartas, &c. penes Dec. & Capitulum. * * Cronicon Litchfeldensis Ecclesiae MS. in Bibl. Musaei Ashmoleani Oxon. N. 770.

* Acta Capitularia, Transcripta Cartarum, &c. ad Eccles. Litchfeldensem spectantia. Ibid. N. 794, 827.