WHERWELL, (Hampshire) on the r. Test, near Andover, had a nunnery, built by the Saxon Q. AElfrith, the greatest beauty of
her age, to attone for the wicked vow she made to kill her son-in-law K. Edward, and also for the murder committed by her
husband K. Edgar, on her former husband Earl Ethelwold, that he might gain her for his wife, of whom that Earl had
beguiled him. This bel. to the Ld. Delawar, by exchange in the R. of Henry VIII. and was the seat of the late Sir John
Fryar, Ld.-mayor of London, who supported a ch. sc. here. A trout-stream runs under the mansion-house.