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- obsoleteObsolete spelling of Whithorn.
Pightwin ( or Pechtwin ) is conſecrated Biſhop of Witherne ( called in Latin , Candida Caſa ) at Ælfet,
1696, James Tyrrell, “An Alphabetical Table of the Principal Matters contained in this Hiſtory”, in The general history of England2 more examples
And diuers hundreds of yeares after this, the firſt Church of ſtone, to remayne durable, that is remembred to haue bene in Britaine, was builded by S. Ninian, at witherne, […]
1633, Richard Brouhton, “Of Divers Christian Chvrches” (chapter XIX), in The Ecclesiasticall Historie of Great Britaine, page 100F. Robert Olyyere, of Yharom, was ordained deacon March 2nd, 1397-8, by Oswald, Bishop of Witherne, suffragan of the archbishop, in the parish church of St. Martin, Conyngstrete , York; […]
1844, C. F. R. Palmer, “The Friar-Preachers or Black Friars of Yarm”, in The Archaeological Journal, volume XXXVII, page 189
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