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neighbourhood of these two great churches caused the monksof New-minster to transplant themselves, about two hundredyears after the first erection of the monastery, to a place calledHyde, without the city walls of Winchester : at first it wasgoverned by Seculars, but in the year 964 Ethelwold, Bishopof Winchester, introduced Monks and converted the collegeinto a monastery. John Salcot, alias Capon, the thirty-eighth Abbot , having been instrumental in procuringHenry ’s divorce from Catherine of Arragon, was, on the dis-solution of the Abbey, promoted to the Bishoprick of Salis-bury.

23. Malnisbury, founded by Eleutherius , Bishop of Win-chester, in the year 675. Richard Frampton was the forty-fifth and last Abbot . On the dissolution, one Stump, a richclothier, purchased the Abbey of the King, and converted itinto a parish church, and the offices into rooms for weaving.

24. York, St. Mary's, founded by Allan, Earl of Richmond,in 10S3. William Dent, at the time of the dissolution, wasthe thirty-first Abbot.

25. Selby, in Yorkshire , founded by William the Conqueror ,in the year 1069. Robert Roger was the thirty-third and lastAbbot , and the Abbey was converted into a parochial church.

26. Coventry, founded by Leofric, Earl of Chester, andGodiva his wife, in 1043. Leofwine was appointed Abbot ,and being in 1054 made Bishop of Lichfield , he ordained thathis successors, superiors of this monastery, should be calledPriors and not Abbots ; upon his death Robert de Limesay,Bishop of Chester, about the year 1100, obtained the custodyof the Abbey from Henry I. , and removed his see thither,constituting it the chief cathedral of the diocese j but dyingsoon afterwards, the see reverted to Lichfield , when itwas agreed, that the precedency in the style episcopal shouldbe given to Coventry, and that both places should choosetheir Bishop alternately, and make one chapter, in which thePrior of Coventry should preside. Thomas Camsell wasPrior at the dissolution.