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c ' commune Ecclesice Collegiatce de Tettenhall;" referrmo- to the a icient college of canons that sub- sisted here fro n before the Conquest to the Disso- lution; of this building, however, not a wreck is left behind.

Equally ancient : s the town of Wolverhampton, two miles from Tettenhall, and somewhat similar to it in the natun. of its cedes astical preferment; being also a peculiar, subject to no power but that of the K ng, and under it to the perp< tual visitation of the keeper of the great seal for the time being. It is called the deanery of Wolverhampton; and dates its origin from the charter of Wulfurna, the widow of Athelm duke of Northampton, in the year 006. who gave lands in this neighbourhood

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for the foundation of a monastery and the building of a church at Hampton: when, in compliment to its bene mccress, then prefixed to its own name that of the lady, and from thenceforth was called Wul.'runhampton. At the Conquest this relig ous establishment consisted of a Jean and lour secu- lar canons or prebendaries. It was conferred by William on It's chaplain Sampson, an J afterwards attached t<> the church of Lie; -.field: but being made ind endent f t is jurisdiction in the reign of Henry II. it continued amenable only to the King ul .d Pope, till the forty-iiftii of Henry III.

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