WESTBURY ON TRIN, (Gloucestershire) 1 m. N. W. from Bristol, is a p. 14 m. in com. having the Trin running through it, and
the Avon for its W. boundary. In the Rs. of Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror, it bel. to the Ch. of
Worcester. Here was anciently a college, for the maintenance of which Edward III. gave St. Lawrence's hos. near Bristol.
It was pulled down and built much larger, about the year 1443, by Dr. Carpenter Bp. of Worcester, who being born here, not
only chose it for the place of his interment, but assumed the title of Bp. of Worcester and Westbury. He incompassed this
college with a high wall and turrets, and placed a large tower on it, with battlements, so that it looked like a castle.
Another great benefactor to this college was Will. Cannings, a merchant of Bristol, and founder of Ratcliff Ch. there, who
having been also mayor of that city three times, and growing old and weary of the world, retired hither, took priest's
orders, and in 7 years became dean of this college, and built an almsh. here, allowing the mayor of Bristol to put in one
of the men, and Mrs. mayoress one of the women. K. Hen. VIII. granted this mon. to Sir Ralph Sadler. In the civil wars
Prince Rupert, fearing the college would be made a garrison by the Pt. army, to annoy the city of Bristol, set it on fire,
so that it was almost destroyed. Here is a large handsome Ch.