The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine (Volume 5-6) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1859. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... the beginning of the seventeenth century. It is about six feet wide and twenty-three feet long, containing many miniature portraits, blazonings of arms, fac-similes of seals, deeds, grants, &c., and an elaborate drawing of the celebrated horn just described. The Ecclesiastical History of Bedwyn, which comes next to be noticed, is made up of scanty materials collected at various times, as sources of information have sprung up. A church existed here, as we have seen, as early as Edward the Confessor's time; and it is supposed that the Prebend of Bedwyn was founded in the Cathedral of Old Sarum, at the time of the consecration of that building on the 5th of April, 1092, when the episcopal see was removed from Sherborne by Bishop Herman. It certainly existed prior to the foundation of the present Cathedral in A.d. 1220. This prebend was dissolved, with some others in New Sarum, by Henry