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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Paul), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Norton-Ferris, E. division of Somerset, 34 … engagements between the contending parties took place in the immediate vicinity of this town; in which, according … canopied niches, a number of suits of ancient armour, the coats of mail of John, King of France, and David, King of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Charities CHARITIES (i) 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 Dissolution as a … will left 400, income to be applied in the distribution of coats and gowns for poor men and women, surplus in bread. The …
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
… 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 … and blinding. This law may well have been the Conqueror's. In the reign of his youngest son we hear 3 of a fine paid by …
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 … poetical description of this church by Wolstan, printed in Mabillon's Acta Sanctorum, is unfortunately very obscure, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… OF ST. CROSS The hospital of St. Cross was founded in 1136 by Henry of Blois, and consisted of a church with … was completed and vaulted after a few years' interval. In the middle of the 13th century the tower, nave arcades and … The upper stages of the tower were largely remodelled in the end of the 14th and beginning of the 15th century, and …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… as to the early history of Windsor which were current in the 14th and 15th centuries. 1 During the Saxon period, … the Confessor had granted Windsor with 20 hides of land in the neighbourhood to the monastery of St. Peter at Westminster, 3 but in the first year of the new reign King William regained …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Winestead (St. German) WINESTEAD ( St. German), a parish, in the union of Patrington, S. division of the wapentake of … Hedon; containing 139 inhabitants. The parish is nearly in the centre of the peninsula of Holderness, and consists of … Pratt, of Wingrave, is annually distributed in great-coats and other clothing. A Benedictine priory, a cell to the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Wing 223. WING (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxiv. N.W. (b)xxiv. N.E. (c)xxiv. S.W.) Ecclesiastical … inserted at the E. end of the N. and S. walls of the nave in the 13th century; the South Aisle was re-built in the 14th …