HEDDINGTON, (Wiltshire) bet. Marlborough and Bath, seems to have been a Roman colony, from the foundations of houses that
have been dug up here for a mile together, and from the silver and copper coins of Roman emperors found here; of which
some were given to the royal-society, and others to Mr. Ashmole's musaeum at Oxford. Here K. Alfred gave the Danes such a
total defeat, that they gave hostages to quit the land; which they performed accordingly, and did not molest it more for 3
years. It was anciently called Edendon; and William, who was Bp. of Winchester, favourite of Edw. III. who took his
sirname from hence, because he was born in it, founded a college here of Bon hommes.