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A History of the County of Hampshire
… as Cheyney Court stands on the east side of Prior's Gate, in the angle of the Close wall. It appears to be of … next the gate-house, has a richly carved bargeboard; in all probability the two other gables had similar … to have been originally of four stories throughout, two in the stone basement and two above. The western portion of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the remains of Hyde Abbey, consists of chancel 28 ft. 1 in. by 18 ft. 4 in., small north vestry, north chapel 23 ft. 5 in. by 14 ft. 6 in., nave 62 ft. 10 in. by 24 ft. 2 in., …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Henry I extended the fair-time for a further five days in exchange for lands taken from the bishopric. Stephen 1 granted six days more and Henry Plantagenet early 2 in his reign, characteristically ignoring his predecessor's … to twenty or twenty-four by temporary grants 3 and often in practice exceeded, seems to have been regarded as the …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… the dissolution of the monastic chapter of St. Swithun. In royal letters patent of 28 March 1541, 1 the former prior … unaffected. Henry VIII issued statutes for the new body in 1544, similar to those of other cathedrals of the New … queen Mary transferred this to the bishop of Winchester in 1557. 3 The twelve canons were appointed to numbered …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 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 William of Wykeham in 1387 on a site bought of the Prior and convent of St. … the chapel, the final resting-place of the society. In this state they remained for a century and a-half without …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… boroughs 1 of the 12th century, is of peculiar interest. In certain particulars it was moulded by royal licence and … derive from remote antiquity. Death by the halter became in time the usual doom of the felon, but by the old custom of … Mill, Segrim's Mill and a second fulling mill near Priors Barton were all leased to John Arnald on a twenty-four …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The borough BOROUGH In spite of the tradition that the merchant gild of … was created by Ethelwulf, father of Alfred the Great, in A.D. 856 1 there is no authentic evidence of its existence … was inevitable, but that this stage had not been reached in the 12th century is shown clearly by the two charters of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… may be said to begin with the coming of St. Birinus in 635 and his conversion to Christianity of King Kynegils. … of this church can only be left to conjecture, but Wolstan in his poem on St. Swithun 1 mentions a tower, apparently a … Langton, and painted on the vault the names and rebuses of Priors Hunton and Silkstede. Courtenay. Or three roundels …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… HISTORY OF THE CASTLE The castle of Windsor appears first in history in the Domesday Survey in connexion with the manor of Clewer, which was held of the …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Winkeburne. Wincheburne WINKEBURNE. WINCHEBURNE. In Wincheburne before the coming of the Normans, Swayne had … Gislebert de Tysun (whose fee it became afterwards) 1 had in demesne two car. and fifteen sochm. on four bov. of land, … meadow, pasture wood one leu long, and half a leu. broad. In king Edward the Confessours time the value was 100s. when …