SHIFFORD, (Oxfordshire) bet. Bampton and the Isis, bel. formerly to the mon. of St. Frideswide at Oxford; but Hen. VIII.
settled it on his Coll. of Christchurch. A M.S. in Sir Rob. Cotton's library says, K. Alfred assembled a council or Pt.
here, of all the chief men of the Km. and gave them grave admonitions, touching the manners and Gt. of the people.