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A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Fairs and trades EARLY HISTORY THE FAIR OF ST. GILES Winchester, … foot of St. Giles Down, near but not too near the coast and served by ancient roads, was predestined for the haunt of … generall processyon in the feast of Corpus Christi.' The 'carpenters and hellyore (tylers) shall goo together first, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… chalk down-land. Roman roads approach it from all sides, and the Itchen while navigable brought it into touch with Southampton, and so with the centres of continental trade. The present … each according to his means. Also they were bidden to take carpenters and workmen for the work at the expense of the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… William of Wykeham in 1387 on a site bought of the Prior and convent of St. Swithun, outside the jurisdiction of the mayor and corporation and within the bishop's own jurisdiction of the Soke. 1 The …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… In certain particulars it was moulded by royal licence and enactment, others clearly derive from remote antiquity. … the convicted citizen suffered brutal mutilation 2 and blinding. This law may well have been the Conqueror's. In … the warrant of royal charter to Wallingford, Portsmouth and possibly elsewhere. One illustration of this may be …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… owed its first beginnings to its important geographical and political status 3 rather than to any deliberate trade … before or only after the Conquest it was only a part, and at first not necessarily a vital part of the borough … granting to the citizens of Winchester all the liberties and customs which they had enjoyed during the time of Henry …
Survey of London
… to its present site at the corner of Cleveland Street and Mortimer Street. St. Pancras Female Charity School was … show that nearly all the houses on both the north and south sides of the street were occupied by the year 1770. … Jupp, architect, who designed the entrance hall to the Carpenters' Company, and nephew of Richard Jupp, architect to …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… the Earl; 'then it was taxed for 5 hides, now for 4 hides, and the castle of Windsor is on the (other) half hide.' 1 The castle was thus a new work, and there are no grounds for assuming it to be older than the … William, the castle was no doubt raised by his orders, 3 and from the first it has been the special stronghold of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… the left bank of the Wye, 6 m. S. of Kington. The church and Winforton Court are the principal monuments. The church contains an interesting 18th-century organ and case, not included in the inventory, as probably after … Scratchings: On E. and S.E. windows of chancelvarious masons' marks. ConditionGood, much altered. Secular (2). …
A History of the County of Stafford
… middle-class houses were built along the Ashby road, and there has also been extensive 20thcentury council and private housing development in the south-eastern part of … township. Winshill was a township in Burton ancient parish and later a civil parish covering 1,150 a. (465.4 ha.). 15 …