Meanings
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of Whithorn.
[…] and was the firſt Biſhop of Candida Caſa, (now Whitherne in Galloway,) […]
1676, Daniel Langhorne, An introduction to the history of England, Charles Harper; Jobn Amery, page 1762 more examples
Vpon the South adioineth Galloway, where is the towne of Caſa Candida,now called Whitherne, and the auncient temple of S.Ninian, adourned alſo with an epiſcopall ſea.
1590, John Stow, A Svmmarie of the Chronicles of England, from the Firſt arriuing of Brute in this Iſland, vnto this preſent yeere of Chriſt, 1590Heylin ſays, he takes the moſt of that which now makes the Dioceſe of Carliſle, to have been, in the Infancy of the Engliſh Church, part of the Dioceſe of Whitherne, or Caſa candida, in the Province of Galloway, now a Part of Scotland ; but then a Parcel of the Kingdom of the Northumbers.
1718, William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, page 132
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