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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Somerset, 34 miles (E.) from Taunton, and 108 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2296 inhabitants. This place, … vicinity of this town; in which, according to Burnet's History of his own Times, was shed the first blood in the … the columns, which are two diameters in width, are various chantry and sepulchral chapels. The roof is elaborately …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Those connected with Winchester in general. 1. St. John's Hospital and the Allied Charities. The history of St. John's Hospital in its religious capacity and after the … including the parsonages of Hurstbourne with St. Mary Bourne, Itchenswell and Owslebury and three houses in Front …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… purposes; the Cathedral Close as well as St. Mary's College and Wolvesey Palace (previously extra-parochial) … boundary to include on the north, part of Abbot's Barton, which was added to the parish of St. Bartholomew … Westgate, another outside Northgate, another (the bishop's liberty of the soke) outside Eastgate. The existing streets …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester St Mary's College ST. MARY'S COLLEGE Immediately south-west of Wolvesey Palace in the … 15712. South-west of it in an annexe was Warden Thurburn's chantry, erected in 1450. In 1475 it was converted into the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… description of this church by Wolstan, printed in Mabillon's Acta Sanctorum, is unfortunately very obscure, but the … buried there in 1069. But the duration of St. Athelwold's building was short. In 1079 Walkelin the first Norman … columns, the base of one of these remaining in Gardiner's chantry on the north side of the feretory. It is, however, …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… 'for the liveries of Nicholas the keeper of the king's house at Windsor.' The existence of a chapel within the … the first seven years nothing was done, but the chaplain's pay of a penny a day points to the maintenance of the … &c., on the north side of St. George's chapel, for the chantry priests and choristers to keep their commons in. It …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of George, Dorchester division of Dorset, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Dorchester; containing 422 inhabitants. The … formerly held here; and a fair is still kept on St. Martin's day. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the … This parish, which takes its name from a stream, or bourne, that runs through it only in winter, comprises 823 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… date a gap 130 yards wide was made, probably at Abel's Gull. Parts of the country-side were flooded to a depth of … in a poor way, was the husband of Jane Pepys, the diarist's aunt. 10 The inn in which the diarist lodged was the Swan … in Rogation Week. 20 In 1459 the endowments of Fitton chantry (see Leverington-Manors) were transferred to Parson …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the inclusion (from Wisbech Borough) of the hamlet of Ring's End, on the Nene opposite Guyhirn. Although it is … At the later date the total rents amounted to 45 5 s. 6 d. 18 As usual in the 14th century, a decline in … by Sir John Colvile, son of the founder of the Newton chantry, on himself and his wife Anne for their lives. Anne …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 2 acres. Before this time various creeks, such as Carlton's Creek, 5 penetrated a long way inland and allowed the … In Leverington: the Marsh, Spitalfield, Thummins, Margerie's Croft, Farthing Field, Outnewlands, Fen Croft, Church … Everard, into whose family the manor descended. In 1366 a chantry was founded by John Hode of Fleet and Simon son of …