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A History of the County of Hampshire
… Mary's College ST. MARY'S COLLEGE Immediately south-west of Wolvesey Palace in the southern suburb of the ancient city is the College of St. Mary, founded by … with its beautiful grounds between the city wall and the cathedral. A ninth house was added in 1907 in Kingsgate Park …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The borough BOROUGH In spite of the tradition that the merchant gild of Winchester was … the mayor every Sunday and principal feast at the cathedral. In 1575 this 'attendance' was defined as not only … days, going before him 'towards St. Swithun's Church (the Cathedral) and home agayne under payen of lossinge 3 s. 3 d. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The cathedral CATHEDRAL The history of the Old Minster of Winchester, setting aside the legends of King Lucius, may …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… There is still to be described the ruined episcopal palace of Wolvesey, the fortified castle of Henry of Blois. The … the adjoining chapel lying immediately south-east of the cathedral are reached by a footpath through the Close leading … Court (see supra) to the Close gate and so out of the cathedral precincts. Thence the road turns under Kingsgate, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 miles (N. W.) from the town of … in the patronage of the Prebendary of Wistow in the Cathedral of York, valued in the king's books at 8; net …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Chapeiry of Parson Drove CHAPELRY OF PARSON DROVE Parson Drove, originally a township and … are four handsome brass chandeliers formerly in St. Paul's Cathedral. NONCONFORMITY A Wesleyan Methodist congregation …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a frontage upon the Ouse (later the … originally the same as in the other Marshland villages of the Isle, but in Leverington has been considerably … Violet of Wisbech on her last voyage. 85 The vessel left Glasgow in 1851 and was captured by Barbary pirates in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Each is therefore partly in Norfolk and partly in the Isle of Ely. 1 In the Middle Ages they were collectively known as … 'principal landowners' in either Outwell or Upwell. The cathedral priory retained certain rights in the vills after … in the next hundred years, 81 and was amalgamated with Ely cathedral priory in 1446, when the endowment included 7 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Thorney THORNEY This large parish 1 is of a different type from the others in Wisbech hundred. Its … from the abbey are very scanty. The boundary with the Ely Cathedral priory property in Wisbech Murrow was adjusted in … and is a copy of some 13th-century glass in Canterbury Cathedral. In the lower easternmost window on both sides of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to it. The vicar was to receive the tithes except those of flax and wool. Land and other tithes were assigned to him for conducting the services at the chapel of Kilhus in Wisbech St. Mary (q.v.). 58 In 1275 Bishop … by William Swansborough in imitation of the Octagon of Ely Cathedral, but the lantern became unsafe owing to defective …