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fcink of a faint; and the field in which 

 lie was flain was celebrated for nume- 

 rous" miracles, faid to have been wrought 

 in it. The Britons called the place 

 Maes Hir, the Long Field; and fome 

 time after the death of Ofwald, it ob- 

 tained the name of Croes Ofwalt, Of- 

 iv aid's Crofs. 



On the place of the Martyrdom, as 

 the monks have termed it, a monaftery 

 was founded, dedicated to St. Ofwald, 

 which bore the names of Blanc-minfter, 

 Candida Ecclefia, Album Monafterium, 

 and White-minfter ; but no evidences 

 are now left, either of the time of it's 

 foundation or it's difiblution. It has 

 been fo long deftroyed, that Leland* 

 fays, the cloifter was Handing within 



* Itin. V. 37. His words are, " The chirch (of Of- 

 " weftry) was fumtimc a monafterie caullid the White Min- 

 " fter. After tumid to a paroche chirch, and the parfonage 

 " impropriate to the abbey of Shrewftjury. The cloifter 



iut-:minum niemnia ul>i mommtnta tnonachorum." 



the 



