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A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Fairs and trades EARLY HISTORY THE FAIR OF ST. GILES Winchester, well placed on a river navigable by small craft to the foot of St. Giles … Walkelin procured from William Rufus the grant of a fair on the vigil, feast and morrow of St. Giles, to be held 'on …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winton, Wyncestre (xiii cent. et seq.). Winchester lies in the valley of the Itchen, surrounded by chalk down-land. … extended beyond the parliamentary boundary to include on the north, part of Abbot's Barton, which was added to the parish of St. Bartholomew Hyde; on the east, part of Chilcomb Without was amalgamated with …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The ancient custom THE ANCIENT CUSTOM OF WINCHESTER The … land where there is no crop. And no man shall lay hand on the lands or tenements aforesaid while the king's … was seven years in arrear. The stake was fixed therein on Monday after Michaelmas 1293, and in the following year on …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The borough BOROUGH In spite of the tradition that the … to the actual early constitution of the borough. The light on its existence that should come from the Domesday Survey is … King Edward had from it in his time.' The result shows, on the oath made by eightysix principal burgesses ( de …
A Dictionary of London
… occupied by offices and business houses. Name derived from the sign, or perhaps there may have been a windmill in the … No later mention. Windmill Alley East out of Shoe Lane, on the north side of the Windmill Inn, in Farringdon Ward … An old tavern at the corner of Old Jewry and Lothbury. Stow identifies the site with that of the house of the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… castle Architectural history ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF THE CASTLE The castle of Windsor appears first in history in … 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, … to have taken place. Liberate R. 24 Hen. III, m. 22. See Stow, Ann. (ed. E. Howes, London, 1631), 206. Exch. Accts. …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor castle History THE CASTLE The authentic history of Windsor Castle cannot be … castle formed part of Clewer and was probably forest. On the eve of the Norman Conquest Edward the Confessor had … worth of provisions 84 were taken into the tioned by Stow as having done much damage to the castle in 1295 does …
Survey of London Monograph
… Windsor Herald WINDSOR HERALD The office of Windsor is said to have been instituted for the … sent to England with news of the battle of Auray, fought on 29 September 1364, and whom King Edward forthwith … left no children. Had many books, presumably his father's; Stow complained that he kept them too long from the sight of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Winshill Introduction Introduction Lying on what was formerly the Derbyshire side of the river Trent, Winshill was … a. (245.6 ha.), was taken into Burton municipal borough on its extension in 1878, 1 and under the Local Government …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with Flasby WINTERBURN, with Flasby, a township, in the parish of Gargrave, union of Skipton, E. division of the … from Skipton; containing 140 inhabitants. It is situated on the east side of the Aire, and intersected by a tributary … a salubrious position on the eastern side of one of the Wold hills, about two miles south of the Humber. A …