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"expansion": "Middle English: Chestre, Chester, Chestere, Chestir, Chestr, Chestur, Chestyre, Cæstre, Cestre, Chæstre (Early Middle English)\nEnglish: Chester\n→ Old French: Cestre",
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"english": "Year 964 In this year King Edgar drove the priests in Chester out of the old monastery and the new monastery, and out of Chertsey and Middleton and replaced them with monks. He appointed Abbot Athelgar as abbot of the new monastery, Ordbright as abbot of Chertsey, and Cyneweard as abbot of Middleton.",
"text": "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle\nAn. DCCCCLXIIII Hēr drǣfde Ēadgār cyng þā preostas on Ċeastre of ealdan mynstre, ⁊ nīwan mynstre, ⁊ of Ċeortesīġe, ⁊ of Middeltūne, ⁊ sette hȳ mid munecan, ⁊ hē sette Æðelgār abbod tō nīwan mynstre tō abbode, Ordbriht to Ċeortesīġe, ⁊ Cyneweard to Middeltūne.",
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"text": "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle\nAn. DCCCCLXIIII Hēr drǣfde Ēadgār cyng þā preostas on Ċeastre of ealdan mynstre, ⁊ nīwan mynstre, ⁊ of Ċeortesīġe, ⁊ of Middeltūne, ⁊ sette hȳ mid munecan, ⁊ hē sette Æðelgār abbod tō nīwan mynstre tō abbode, Ordbriht to Ċeortesīġe, ⁊ Cyneweard to Middeltūne.",
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