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Excerpt from A Topographical and Historical Description of the Country of Southampton, Vol. 2: Containing an Account of Its Towns, Seats, Antiquities, Churches, Public Edifices, Scenery, and Residences of the Nobility, Gentry, Etc., Accompanied With Biographical Notices of Eminent and Learned Men to Whom This County Has Given Birth
Thats a Christian place of worship should be erected on' the site of a Pagan Temple at christ-church, is not an incredible cir cumstance, since similar instances occur, not only in our own king dom, but throughout the whole Continent of Europe and we learn from Keysler, that it was a common practice with those who undertook the conversion of tire Heathens, to fix on such spots for their new places of worship, as had been hallowed in the epi nion of the converts, by ancient consecration.
The earliest historical document relating to this town, occurs in the Saxon Chronicle, from which it appears, that Ethelwold, cou~ sin-german to Edward the Elder, took possession of it during his short-lived revolt in the reign of the latter Prince. In the Domes day Book, it is, mentioned as a Royal Manor, and a Burgh, by the name of Thui'nam; and recorded to have thirty-one messuages, paying a yearly tax of sixteen pence.
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