Baring-Gould’s sources: Modern Roman Martyrology. Not in any Ancient Martyrology. Authority Mention by Bede in his EccL Hist.] S. Hedd\ was an East-Saxon by birth, and a monk of the monastery of Whitby. He was made bishop of the West-Saxons in 676 by Theodore of Canterbury, and placed his episcopal seat at Dorchester, near Oxford, but afterwards removed his seat to Winchester. On the death of Ceadwalla, Ina succeeded him 011 the throne of Wessex. He drew up a code of laws with the assistance of S. Hedda and S. Erconwald. Bede says of Hedda, 44 He was a good and just man, and exercised his episcopal duties rather through his innate love of virtue than through the learning he had acquired.” The Saxon Chronicle says that he died in 703, after having held the bishopric of Winchester twenty-nine years; but this date is wrong, for on the authority of the chronicle itself we are told that he was consecrated to the bishopric of the West-Saxons in 676. Therefore his death must have taken place in 705, a date which agrees with the statement of Bede that Hedda died in the beginning of the reign of Osred. Now Alfrid, king of the Northumbrians, died in 705, and was at once succeeded by the young Osred.