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Cholsey Abbey was an Anglo-Saxon nunnery in Cholsey in the English county of Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) which was founded in 986.After King Edward the Martyr was murdered his stepmother Ælfthryth was implicated in the crime. Edward’s death had allowed Ælfthryth’s son Ethelred the Unready to become King of England.

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