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| | EBK: Leofric, Bishop of Exeter |
 | | After the Norman Conquest, the seats of many of the Saxon bishoprics which had been established in the open country, such as Sherborne, Dorchester and Crediton, were transferred to safer positions within the walls of the chief towns. |
 | | Devon and Cornwall had been frequently overrun by the Northmen, who had not spared the religious houses, and who, whilst wintering at Exeter, as they had done more than once, must have readily found their way to Crediton via the river or along the ancient hill road. |
 | | Leofric replaced them, at Exeter, with a body of prebendaries, or regular canons, who, says Malmesbury, "not according to English custom, but rather following that of Lotharingia" lived together, eating at a common table and sleeping in a common dormitory. |
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