MICHAEL-BEDWARDINE (ST.) , a parish in the lower division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, forming part of the city of Worcester, and containing, with the extra-parochial district of the College Precincts, 793 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £7. 12. 1., and endowed with £1000 royal bounty. The King, by lapse, presented in 1799.