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land, or on this fide the Alp;>. He alfo built three other churches,/ 

 of two o(" which there are now no remains. One was dedicated- * 

 to Sr. Mary. It flood in the place now called St. -Mary's Chare ; part 

 of the foundations of which have been difcovered in digging/ 

 and raifmg buildings upon it. The other was dedicated to St. 

 Peter. It is uncertain where it flood. The third was his prede- 

 ceffbr's favourite cluirch of St. Michael at Nether Warden. This 

 has been in the cathedral-form, or in the form of a crofs, and 

 long reduced almoft to a mere ruin, to the great regret of that 

 par i ih, who in 1760, obtained a brief for its being rebuilt. The 

 monallery of Hex/urn, which is incamioufly affigiied by Creffy (e) 

 to St. OJkvald, was of his foundation^. He died Oct. 12, 709, 

 and was buried in the monaflery of Rlppon, of which he was 

 likewife abbot ; and was removed to Canterbury by Archbifhop Odo, 

 940. His fucceflbr in his ice and abbey here was, 



Acca, his chaplain, companion and friend. Accas education 

 was under Bifhop Bofa, till his admiffion into his fricndfhip and 

 favour. He attended him in his worft fortunes, and was with 

 him at Rome. There he learned to chaunt and ling well in the 

 Roman choir, and at his return was one of the bed voices, the 

 moil mufical and graceful, in the church of Hagujlald. He was 

 ib charmed with church-mufic, that after his election to this fee, 

 he engaged oneAfafow, an Italian, who taught the quire of Canter- 

 bury with great applaufe, to teach his, and detained him twelve 

 years. He improved himfelf all that while, and with delight 

 took the lead in the facred chorus. He was a moil heavenly 

 man, Vir magnificus, a great foul, fays Bede (g). He gilded the 



(e) Crefifs Ch. Hift. (f) Spdm. Cone. vol. i. p. 203. 



(g) Bed. Ecclef. Hift. 1. v. c. 20. 



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