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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 … abound with interesting scenery, and on the south is an uninterrupted view of the fine Vale of Black more, … numbers at Southampton, advanced to Winchester, where they committed the most barbarous outrages. When retiring to their …
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 … in England. Under the later Angevins it shared at least an equal glory with the fair of St. Ives and the famous mart …
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. … was attached to the parish of Weeke Within. 5 In 1902 6 an order was obtained for the union for civil purposes of the … who was resting on horseback outside the Dog and Star alehouse 'with a pott of beer in his hand,' cried, 'Here is …
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 … Meads, New Field, and Dogger's Close. A mistake was committed towards the end of the century, when the college … in 1832 by warden Barter. It was for some time used as an examination hall, and since 1910 is the Fellows' Library. …
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 … punished by minor mutilation, as for example the loss of an ear. 9 The proceedings customary at Winchester for the … offences against the assize, nightworking 46 and similar misdemeanours, and also profited by the issue of licences to …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The borough BOROUGH In spite of the tradition that the merchant gild of … 1604 King James I, again for the relief of their fee farm, committed the farm of the custody and ulnage of all vendable … Boromote, 155060 (Winton Corp. Doc.), fol. 5 b. Either his misdemeanours were not very great or were easily forgiven, …
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, … conventicles.' 379 Henry Martin, the regicide, was also committed together with various men who were accused of sedition, 'high misdemeanours,' or who were thrown into prison without …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at Crackenthorpe in Beetham was an early feoffment by one of the lords of Beetham in the … holds it of the king; Cal. Inq. x, 457. 1374 The king committed to Richard de Ros and Joan his wife the custody of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from the early 17th century, by increasing specialization in blankets and other broadcloths. 1 Thenceforth until the … industry the town was nevertheless emerging as an important regional and market centre. In the mid 16th … innkeepers and victuallers, and, at a lower level, alehouse keepers and tipplers. The latter were regulated in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably the late 12th or early 13th century within a … west Oxfordshire, its population rising from under 4,000 in the 1930s to over 20,000 by the end of the 20th century. 2 … counted a civil parish, and from 1895 to 1974 it formed an urban district. 3 Further enlargement of both district and …