witherne

name

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of Whithorn.

   “And diuers hundreds of yeares after this, the firſt Church of ſtone, to remayne durable, that is remembred to haue bene in Britaine, was builded by S. Ninian, at witherne, […]”

   “Pightwin ( or Pechtwin ) is conſecrated Biſhop of Witherne ( called in Latin , Candida Caſa ) at Ælfet,”

   “F. Robert Olyyere, of Yharom, was ordained deacon March 2nd, 1397-8, by Oswald, Bishop of Witherne, suffragan of the archbishop, in the parish church of St. Martin, Conyngstrete , York; […]”