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| | SWITHUN - LoveToKnow Article on SWITHUN |
 | | Under jEthelwulf he was appointed bishop of Winchester, to which see he was consecrated by Archbishop Ceolnoth. | | | William of Malmesbury adds that, as Bishop Alhstan of Sherborne was ~thelwulfs minister for temporal, so St Swithun was for spiritual matters. | | | The same chronicler uses a remarkable phrase in recording the bishops prayer that his burial might be ubi et pedibus praetereuntium et stillicidiis cx alto rorantibus esset obnoxius. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SW/SWITHUN.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Swithin |
| | The shrine was destroyed and the relics scattered in 1538. | | | From the first translation of his relics in 984 till the destruction of the shrine St. Swithin was the patron of Winchester Cathedral. | | | In 1093 his remains were again translated to the new church built by Bishop Walkelin. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14357c.htm
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| | The Official Winchester Cathedral Website |
| | This Cathedral Church, so named because it houses the throne (or ‘cathedra’) of the Bishop of Winchester, has its origins in the seventh century, when a Christian Church was first built on the site. | | | The aged, blind bishop is said to have spent much time here in prayer and meditation. | | | Outside the Lady Chapel the statue of Joan of Arc seems to ignore the nearby effigy of Cardinal Beaufort. |
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http://www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk/history
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| | Stephen GARDINER (Bishop of Winchester) |
| | In 1535 he and other bishops were called upon to vindicate the King new title of Supreme Head of the Church of England. | | | The natural consequence of this, indeed, was that when they declined, even as laymen, to be reconciled to the Church, they were handed over to the secular power to be burned. | | | His bishopric was taken from him and given to Dr. |
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http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/StephenGardiner.htm
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| | Winchester Cathedral - Interior |
| | St Swithun (died 862) was a 9th century bishop of Winchester. | | | The bishops who commissioned Winchester cathedral were among the most powerful people in the land. | | | He founded Winchester school (and hence created the model for English public schools) and New College Oxford, both as a means of educating people for the church. |
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http://home.clara.net/reedhome/winchester/interior.htm
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| | Martyrs |
| | As the bishop of Chichester was not yet consecrated, he would not undertake judicially to examine Woodman, and therefore submitted his answers to the bishop of Winchester, who, after many other questions and arguments, failed to induce the prisoner to recant. | | | The bishop told him he was sorry to see him a prisoner, as he had heard that he was a man greatly esteemed in the country where he lived. | | | Two months later, Woodman was again brought before the bishop of Winchester, in St. Savior's church, Southwark, in the presence of the archdeacon of Canterbury, Dr. Langdall, and several other dignitaries. |
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http://www.kamglobal.org/Martyrs/martyrs51.html
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/hgarrett/researchfiles/c1/c725'56.pro
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| | Children's Page |
| | Swithun was born at the end of the eighth century or beginning of the ninth, in Wessex, and studied grammar, philosophy and the Holy Scriptures at the Old Monastery in Winchester. | | | When he became bishop the first thing he did was to set out to see his diocese. | | | Swithun was a very good bishop and was known for his virtues. |
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http://friarsminor.org/xvi10-20.html
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| | Apostolic Succession 3 |
| | This church was organized in 1936 with Bishop Ferrez as its Bishop Primate. | | | Monsignor Duarte Costa was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Maura, Brazil. | | | By the Roman Church appointing and accepting this bishop, it thereby validated all the rest of Duarte Costa’s episcopal consecrations demonstrating they are "acceptable" to the Roman Catholic Church. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/alt/scm/as3.html
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| | The Golden Legend, vol. 4 (x) |
| | And when Elmeston the Bishop of Winchester was dead, Swithin was made Bishop there after him, whereof the people were full glad, and by his holy living he caused the people to live virtuously, and to pay their tithes to God and holy church. | | | These two bishops, Dunstan and Ethelwold, were warned by our Lord to see that these two holy Saints, Swithin and Edward, should be worshipfully shrined, and so they were within short time after. | | | Swithin, the holy confessor, was born beside Winchester in the time of St. Egbert, king. |
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http://www.ccel.org/ccel/voragine/goldleg4.x.html
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| | BISHOP OF WINCHESTER I do, thou most usurping proditor, And not protector, of the king or realm. | | | BISHOP OF WINCHESTER And am not I a prelate of the church? | | | Thy wife is proud; she holdeth thee in awe, More than God or religious churchmen may. GLOUCESTER Name not religion, for thou lovest the flesh, And ne'er throughout the year to church thou go'st Except it be to pray against thy foes. |
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http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/texts/histories/1kinghenryvi
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| | The Bishop of Winchester |
| | As Bishop of Winchester he is a member of the House of Lords and Prelate of the Order of the Garter. | | | The Right Reverend Michael Scott-Joynt is the 96th Bishop of Winchester, to which see he was translated in 1995, following 8½ years as Area Bishop for mid and north Staffordshire in the Diocese of Lichfield. | | | Welcome for the Bishop of Basingstoke - 11 May 2002 |
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http://www.win.diocese.org.uk/bmhome.htm
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| | Commemoration of the deposition of our Father among the Saints Swithun, Bishop of Winchester |
| | Unto the grave of the holy bishop did the crippled priest flee, setting his hope on the grace of God which shone forth therefrom, and at the prayers of the saint the Saviour delivered the suffering one from his deformity. | | | Great was the meekness of the holy bishop Swithun, for, shunning all earthly glory and pomp, he walked barefoot to the churches he hallowed, concealing his great piety from the eyes of men under cover of the darkness of night. | | | Great was the humility of the holy one, for, conscious of his lowliness, he commanded that his holy body be buried in a place where the people would tread his grave underfoot, and the rains of heaven would pour down thereon from the lofty eaves of the church. |
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http://www.orthodoxengland.btinternet.co.uk/servswit.htm
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| | Commemoration of Our Father among the Saints Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester |
| | Gravely and grievously ill, a young maiden was brought by her mother to the shrine of the holy one, where having made entreaty with faith she was wholly cured of her ailment. | | | Thy wise counsel and true friendship were cherished by Edgar, the right-believing king, O holy hierarch; and thereby thou didst benefit the whole Church of Christ in thy land. | | | Ye faithful, let us praise the wondrous Swithun, the holy hierarch of Winchester, for his precious relics were enshrined by the godly Æthelwold for the glory of our Saviour. |
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http://www.orthodoxengland.btinternet.co.uk/servethe.htm
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| | Europe's 13th-Century Progress by Sanderson Beck |
| | Bishop Gudmund Arason (1203-1237) engaged in many conflicts with chieftains on behalf of the Church, and he also strove to help the poor. | | | The queen mother presided, and the bishops judged that the Talmud insulted the Christian religion. | | | The Cistercian bishop Christian of Prussia was captured in 1233 and held for six years. |
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http://www.san.beck.org/AB21-Europe13thCentury.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: William of Wayneflete |
| | Within a year of his receiving the great seal he found himself involved in the prosecution of his old friend and fellow-student, Reginald Peacocke, Bishop of Chichester, who was tried at Lambeth for teaching and preaching the Lollard errors. | | | He seems to have been ordained sub-deacon at Spalding, the dates are somewhat uncertain) in January, 1420-1, deacon soon afterwards, and priest in 1426. | | | His sympathy with the Lancastrian party partly exposed him, of course, to the odium of the Yorkists, who stirred up the people of Winchester against him and even intrigued to deprive him of his see. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15640b.htm
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| | Signs of the Times - The Archbishop of Canterbury, the House of Lords and the Age of Consent |
| | Nine of the 26 bishops who have seats (by virtue of their seniority as diocesan bishops) were present. | | | The speeches delivered by the Bishop of Winchester and by Lord Habgood the retired Archbishop of York (both against lowering the age) and from the Bishop of Bath and Wells (in favour) are worth studying. | | | Even though I cannot be present in the House of Lords, I know that a number of bishops intend to be present and vote. |
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http://www.loper.org/~george/trends/1998/Jul/86.html
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| | Exciting Holiness: 25 September |
| | He died on this day in the year 1626 and his remains lie in a church which was then in his diocese of Winchester but now is the cathedral for the diocese of Southwark. | | | Andrewes was present at the Hampton Court Conference in 1604, which furthered the reform of the Church of England, and he was also a translator of much of the Old Testament of what is known as the 'Authorised Version' of the Bible. | | | 25 September -- Lesser Festival -- Bishop -- White |
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http://www.excitingholiness.org/first-edition/m09/d25a.html
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| | EBK: St. Aethelwold, Bishop of Winchester |
| | During his youth, he became a member of the King Aethelstan's Royal household and was ordained a priest by Bishop Aelfheah of Winchester around AD 938. | | | It was during his time there that Aethelwold was able to speak out on behalf of his monastic reforming beliefs and he became the principal advocate of the new Benedictine movement which dominated the late tenth-century England. | | | The King supported him in the expulsion of the secular canons from Winchester's Old Minster and they were quickly replaced with Benedictine monks from Abingdon. |
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http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/adversaries/bios/aethelwd.html
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| | July 2: Death of St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester |
| | In 852, Ceolnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury, consecrated Swithun as bishop of Winchester. | | | They considered it idolatry to bow and pray at such shrines and unnecessary for individuals who can go directly to Christ. | | | Swithun's body was moved into yet another Winchester church in the following century. |
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http://www.gospelcom.net/chi/DAILYF/2002/07/daily-07-02-2002.shtml
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| | Britannia Biographies: Walkelin, Bishop of Winchester |
| | In 1098, Bishop Walkelin died, having accomplished, in his church, the reformation which was the first object of nearly all the Norman bishops. | | | "He greatly improved," says the annalist of Winchester, "the Church of Winton in devotion, in the number of its monks and in the buildings of the house (monastery)." He was buried in the nave of his cathedral. | | | His brother, Simeon, was, first, made Prior of Winchester and, afterwards, Bishop of Ely. |
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http://www.britannia.com/bios/walkelin.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited Today's issues St Swithin's Day |
| | St Swithin, the Bishop of Winchester, died in 862. | | | Which means that whatever happens, it will end on St Bartholomew's Day. | | | The famous saying goes that if it rains on St Swithin's Day (today), it will rain continuously for 40 days. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/netnotes/article/0,6729,755807,00.html
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| | 25 September |
| | Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 |
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http://www.oremus.org/liturgy/etc/ktf/m09/d25a.html
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| | The Mystery Worshipper: Winchester Cathedral |
| | The 11 new deacons, followed by the three bishops who were there, processed out of the cathedral onto the green, and we were soon engulfed by relatives and friends keen to hug and kiss us, shake our hands and take a photo of us with a bishop. | | | 'Grace, mercy and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be with you' (spoken by the Bishop of Winchester). | | | It was done as only the Church of England can do in its ancient cathedrals: long processions of canons, clergy, readers, choir, etc; thundering organ; inspiring hymns; skilfully-crafted and well-led liturgy... |
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http://www.ship-of-fools.com/Mystery/1998/012Mystery.html
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| | BBC NEWS World Europe Jersey Woman priest ordained in Jersey |
| | The Reverend Gloria Green will be priested at St Brelade Parish Church by the Bishop of Winchester. | | | The service on Thursday evening in the parish church will be conducted by the Bishop of Winchester, The Right Reverend Michael Scott-Joynt. | | | It is 10 years since the Church of England voted to permit women to become priests. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/1/hi/world/europe/jersey/3875369.stm
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| | The Bishop of Winchester Comprehensive (Designation as having a Religious Character) Order 2004 |
| | This Order may be cited as the Bishop of Winchester Comprehensive (Designation as having a Religious Character) Order 2004. | | | - (1) The Bishop of Winchester Comprehensive, Mallard Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH8 9PW, a voluntary aided school, is hereby designated as a school having a religious character. | | | The Bishop of Winchester Comprehensive (Designation as having a Religious Character) Order 2004 |
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http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si2004/20041725.htm
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| | EBK: Denewulf, Bishop of Winchester |
| | Alfred had been greatly struck by Denewulf's natural powers and intelligence; and, on his return to power, caused him to be ordained and appointed him Bishop of Winchester. | | | Denewulf succeeded Bishop Tunberht to the See of Winchester in AD 878. | | | It was Denewulf's wife who supposedly reproved the King so sharply for allowing her cakes to burn. |
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http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/adversaries/bios/denewulf.html
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| | Winchester travel and accommodation guide |
| | Winchester Cathedral Triforium Gallery - treasures of the Cathedral on display, including one of the finest illuminated Bibles in existence. | | | Jane Austen's House - the house where the author spent her last days. | | | Queen Eleanor's Garden - a peaceful recreation of a medieval garden. |
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http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/hampshire/winchester
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| | Wolvesey, The Old Bishop's Palace, Winchester, Hampshire, UK |
| | This legacy of the Winchester Bishops makes a fascinating tour and will give you an excellent impression of the power of the church in the middle ages. | | | From 670 to the present day, the succession of the Bishops of Winchester is unbroken. | | | Wolvesey; the old Bishop's Palace right in the middle of Winchester, Farnham Castle Keep and Bishop's Waltham Palace were also residences of the Bishops of Winchester and also acted as administrative centres. |
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http://www.hants.gov.uk/discover/places/wolvesey.html
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| | The Bishop of Winchester |
| | Michael Till and the Revd Ewen Huffman, Pastor of Winchester Baptist Church. | | | Michael Scott-Joynt said: "I was glad to be among so many people, from every Christian tradition and perhaps from none, who chose to keep this Europe-wide three minutes silence in the Cathedral, before God and in a context of simple prayer and worship. | | | Michael Scott-Joynt, and Winchester City Council Cabinet Chairman, Councillor Sheila Campbell were among those in attendance as were representatives from the different churches in the area and visitors to the Cathedral. |
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http://www.win.diocese.org.uk/newstsevents.htm
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| | BBC NEWS England Berkshire Bishop fuels gay row in church |
| | Dr John, Chancellor and Canon Theologian at Southwark Cathedral, has argued in favour of the church accepting faithful, permanent same-sex relationships. | | | His intervention will heighten the controversy over Dr John's position, which reflects a deep rift within the church over the issue of gay priests. | | | A Church of England bishop has suggested that the newly-appointed Bishop of Reading should reconsider his position following a row over his former gay relationship. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/2999772.stm
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| | Some Letters of Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux (xxxiii) |
| | The works which he does show sufficiently what he is.” Harpsfield reports that he extorted castles from nobles whom he had invited to a feast, and Roger that he had consecrated the intruder William to the See of York (Annal. | | | To the very illustrious Lord Henry, by the Grace of God Bishop of Winchester, Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, health in our Lord. | | | “What shall I say of his Lordship of Winchester? |
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http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bernard/letters.xxxiii.html
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| | The Bishop of Winchester |
| | For me this was, in Bishop Ochola’s sense, a “pathetic” experience – affecting, telling, alarming, convicting. | | | Some of you know that I spent most mornings for six weeks of my Study Leave in the autumn reading through the book of Jeremiah in its original Hebrew. | | | I asked its Ugandan bishop, whose own wife had been killed by a land-mine in the previous year, how our son would find things there. |
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http://www.winchester.anglican.org/bmcath060205.htm
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| | Lowth (1758) The life of William of Wykeham, bishop of Winchester: Collected from records, registers, manuscripts, and ... |
| | The life of William of Wykeham, bishop of Winchester: Collected from records, registers, manuscripts, and other authentic evidences | | | Lowth (1758) The life of William of Wykeham, bishop of Winchester: Collected from records, registers, manuscripts, and other authentic evidences | | | Bishops; Biography; England; Winchester; Wykeham, William of; Wykeham family |
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http://www.getcited.org/?PUB=101162650&showStat=Ratings
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| | Winchester Cathedral Museum/Attraction Review Winchester Frommers.com |
| | The legend lives on: Just ask a resident of Winchester what will happen if it rains on St. Swithun's Day, July 15, and you'll get a prediction of rain for 40 days. | | | The library houses Bishop Morley's 17th-century book collection, and an exhibition room contains the 12th-century Winchester Bible. | | | When a Saxon church stood on this spot, St. Swithun, bishop of Winchester and tutor to young King Alfred, suggested modestly that he be buried outside. |
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http://www.frommers.com/destinations/winchester/A25182.html
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| | EBK: St. Birstan, Bishop of Winchester |
| | "I am Birstan, former Bishop of this town" and pointing with his right hand, "This is Birinus, who first preached here," and with his left, "This is Swithun, particular patron of this church and city". | | | He was devoted to prayers for the dead and, daily, he did his best to help the poor. | | | The Bishop is found in extant records witnessing the grant of Stoneham to a Saxon nobleman by King Edward the Elder. |
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http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/adversaries/bios/birstan.html
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| | The Bishop of Winchester |
| | As the Roman Catholic Bishops of England and Wales have put it ‘bring about a world shaped by the values of Christ?’ in their General Election Letter. | | | I want to encourage us all to think about the issues that face the next government of this country, to decide what those issues really are, and to cast our vote as people for whom Jesus Christ is the Lord of our lives, our decisive point of reference. | | | The political parties seem to compete to appeal to voters’ self-interest. |
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http://win.diocese.org.uk/newsgebm.htm
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| | Corvus '99 - Winchester |
| | It was at Wolvesey that Mary Tudor and Philip of Spain had their wedding feast and were accommodated after their marriage in the Cathedral in 1554. | | | One of the first Christian churches was built in Winchester by King Kenwahl in 648 AD and you can see its outline and that of St Ethelwold's 10th century Cathedral marked on the Winchester Cathedral Green. | | | It was fortified by Bishop Henry of Blois during the battles between Stephen and Matilda which destroyed most of the city in 1141. |
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http://members.aol.com/corvus1999/win.htm
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| | Old Hampshire Gazetteer, Hospital of St Cross, Winchester |
| | Old Hampshire Gazetteer, Hospital of St Cross, Winchester | | | The place is described in text Camden 1610 | | | Near the S end of the city is the hospital of St. Cross, founded by a bishop this see, for a master, nine poor brethren, and four out-pensioners. |
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http://www.envf.port.ac.uk/hantsgaz/hantsgaz/s0003414.htm
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| | VR Winchester - your 360º tour of the town |
| | Swithun was Bishop of Winchester in the mid ninth century. | | | Winchester was formerly the capital of England, during the 10th and early 11th centuries. | | | Although it was not the only town to have been the capital, it was established by King Alfred the Great as the main city in his kingdom in 827. |
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http://www.vrwinchester.co.uk
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| | Farnham Castle |
| | Elizabeth visited Farnham again in 1591, when Bishop Cooper was her host; and in 1601, when Bishop Montague entertained her. | | | Farnham was the retreat of Bishop Fox, when afflicted with blindness; and it was the home of Bishop Sumner after his resignation of his see. | | | A castle, as a residence for the bishops, was built by Henry de Bois, Bishop of Winchester and brother to King Stephen, at the time when that monarch had given permission to all his partisans "to build castles." |
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http://www.mspong.org/picturesque/farnham_castle.html
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| | Hampshire Treasures: Volume 1 ( Winchester City District), Page 149 |
| | Easton was first recorded in the ninth century in a grant of land by the Bishop of Winchester to Cuthred and his wifeWulfrith. | | | The Domesday Book records the land being held by the bishop in demesne, and the manor belonged to the bishop or to St. Swithun's until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. | | | In 961 King Edgar granted a portion of the land to his kinsman Brihthelm, Bishop of Winchester. |
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http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol01/page149.html
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| | James Montagu/Mountague, 1568?-1618 |
| | Cambridge; first master of Sidney Sussex College; dean of Lichfield, 1603; dean of Worchester, 1604; bishop of Bath and Wells, 1608; restored the church at Bath; bishop of Winchester, 1616. | | | James Montague, Dean of the Royal Chapel and later Bishop of Bath and Wells, leaving him 20 Pounds in her will. | | | Practical in all things, this exchange of correspondence had its uses: Montague, through his job, was close to the King and in fact he saw and spoke with him many times every day. |
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http://www.montaguemillennium.com/familyresearch/h_1618_james.htm
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| | Stigand |
| | 1072), archbishop of Canterbury and bishop of Winchester, is first mentioned in 1020. | | | In 1043 he was consecrated bishop of Elmham and in 1047 was translated to Winchester; he supported Earl Godwin of Wessex in his quarrel with Edward the Confessor, and in 1052 arranged the peace between the earl and the king. | | | But the Conqueror was anxious to get rid of him, although he took him in his train to Normandy in 1067. |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/S/Stigand.htm
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