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Abburke: New page: Archaeologia Cambrensis Cambrian Archaeological Association Fifth Series. Vol. XIII, No. L. April 1896 Notes on Border Parishes. Whitney Church. By M.L. Dawson. Page 81 The villa...

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New page: Archaeologia Cambrensis Cambrian Archaeological Association Fifth Series. Vol. XIII, No. L. April 1896 Notes on Border Parishes. Whitney Church. By M.L. Dawson. Page 81 The villa...

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Archaeologia Cambrensis

Cambrian Archaeological Association

Fifth Series. Vol. XIII, No. L.

April 1896

Notes on Border Parishes.

Whitney Church.

By M.L. Dawson.

Page 81

The village of Whitney lies on the south-western borders of Herefordshire, and at the time of Domesday was included in teh HUndred of Elsdune, but was nevertheless considered to be in the Marches of Wales until the reign of Henry VIII. An Act of Parliament was then passed by which Whitney, together with other neighbouring parishes, was united to the county of Hereford, and incorporated into the newly-formed Hundred of Huntington, "having hitherto been part of the Marches of Wales."

The present church stands on the right of the road leading from Hereford to Hay, and is a comparatively modern edifice; but the original churchw as situated to the left of the road, near the ferry, on the banks of the river Wye. No record remains to tell us when or by whom it was erected, nor have we even any architectural proof from which to judge of its probably date, for it was washed away in the great flood of 1735, and its site now lies beneath the Wye. In the absence of any evidence to the contrary we may fairly assume that it owed its origin to Eustace de Whitney, the first Norman lord of Whitney, or one

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 But the chief interest of Whitney Church lies in the fact that it was a stronghold of the Lollards, and that here William de Swynderby and Walter Brut preached their novel doctrines much to the indignation of the Bishop of Hereford. "Swynderby<sup>1</sup> was the most eloquent of the immediate followers of Wycliffe...He came into the diocese of Hereford early int he year 1390, and taking no notice of an inhibition served upon him at Monmouth, he preached in the churches of Whitney, Almeley, Croft, Leominster, and Kington, and took up his residence in the Forest of Deerfold. In 1391 a process was issued by Bishop Trefnant, of Hereford, against William Swynderby, which is given at full length in the Hereford Episcopal Register for that year...In the same year Swynderby had the high tribute paid to his eloquence of a special inhibition
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 diversions on the village green, with which it was
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 :"John ap Hoell, alias ap Hullyn, of Byrley,<sup>1</sup> along with Thos. Fryson of Michelcherche, Marches of Wales, fuller, broke into Whitney Church, in the lordship of Whitney, Marches of Wales, & stole a chalice.
 :"How they were punished does not appear; but a pardon was granted to Margery, verch (daughter) Richard of Bryley, Marches of Wales, widow, convicted of entertaining and abetting the thieves. (See Pat., p. 2, Henry VIII.)
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