He made large gifts of land near Sandwich “monachis ecclesiæ Christi Doroberniæ” at the request of archbishop Iambertus, A. D. 773, Canterbury (_Cant-wara-burh_) having been burned a few years before.--_Dugd. Mon. Angl._ He freed the abbey of Woking A. D. 775. “In the days of this same Offa was an alderman of the name of Brorda who requested the king for his sake to free his own monastery, called Woking, because he would give it to Medhamsted and St. Peter, and the abbot that then was, whose name was Pusa. Pusa succeeded Beonna; and the king loved him much. And the king freed the monastery of Woking against king, against bishop, against earl, and against all men: so that no man should have any claim there except St. Peter and the abbot. This was done at the king’s town called Free-Richburn.”--_Ingr. Sax. Chron. p. 75._ After _Bath_ had been devastated by the Danes Offa rebuilt the _church of St. Peter_ about A. D. 775.--_Tanner’s Notitia Monastica. V. Somersetshire I._ At _Bredon_ or _Breordun_ he founded or endowed a monastery A. D. 780.--_Tanner’s Not. Mon. III. Worcestershire 5._--_Dugd. Mon. Angl._ He also appears to have granted some endowment or privilege to the cathedral and benedictine priory of Worcester.--_Not. Mon. XXI. Worcestersh. I._ He was also a liberal donor to (some imagine the founder of) Westminster Abbey. A. D. 785 “Offa granted ten plough-lands at Aldenham in Herts to St. Peter’s church, ‘et plebi Domini degenti in Torneia’ (Thorney Isle, on which the Minster was built). He also ‘collected a parcel of monks here’ and ‘repaired and enlarged the church,’ and ‘having a great reverence for St. Peter,’ continues Sulcardus, ‘_he in a particular manner honoured it by depositing there the coronation robes and regalia_.’ He also exempted it from the payment of Romescot.”--_Neale’s Westminster Abbey, vol. 1. p. 13. Dugd. Mon. by Ellis, I. 266._ He resettled the see of Dorchester (Oxon), which had experienced some interruption in the succession of its bishops.--_Flor. Wig. 785. Kennett’s Paroch. Antiq. p. 33._ He built a nunnery at Winchelcombe (called Winchcumb by Dugdale), A. D. 787.--_Not. Mon. XXXIII. Gloucestershire I._ He gave “between the years 791 and 794 to Athelard, archbishop of Canterbury thirty tributaries of land on the north side of the Thames, at a place called Twittenham.”--_Lyson’s Twickenham._