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- Title: Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury
- Author : Henri Jean Louis Joseph Massé
- Release Date : January 01, 1860
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2673 KB
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Tradition, originating in the desire to account for the name of the town, would assign the foundation of a cell or chapel to Theoc, or in Latin form Theocus, in or about 655. In support of this theory Camden and others assert that it was called in Anglo-Saxon times Theocsburg or Theotisbyrg. Others would derive the name from the Greek 'Theotokos', as the Church is dedicated to St. Mary, and others again refer us back to a very early name, Etocisceu--Latinised as Etocessa. In Domesday Book the town is called Teodechesberie, and throughout the Chronicles of the Abbey is called Theokusburia. It is perhaps easy to see how a chronicler writing 250 years later, should be led to assume that Oddo and Doddo were identical with Odda and Dodda.