Meaning of Whitherne | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of Whithorn.

alt-of, obsolete

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.”

“[…] and was the firſt Biſhop of Candida Caſa, (now Whitherne in Galloway,) […]”

“Heylin 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.”

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