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Survey of London
… centred on Wilmington Square, lies between Amwell Street and Farringdon Road to the east and west, and Lloyd Baker Street and Rosebery Avenue to the north and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a charter from Henry I granted some time between 1121 and 1133, possibly in 1121. 2 The grant of a charter was … secure the concession. The charter granted all exemptions and liberties of toll and passage and all other customs enjoyed by the burgesses of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilton Medieval trade and industry MEDIEVAL TRADE AND INDUSTRY The economic importance of Wilton in the … 12th century. 1 In 1256 William Isembard, Mayor of Wilton, and Abraham Russell, one of the leading Jews of the Wilton …
Survey of London
… Winchester House and Park CHAPTER 6: WINCHESTER HOUSE AND PARK Early in the 12th century the Abbey of Bermondsey granted to the Bishop of Winchester and his successors a stretch of land in Southwark extending …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 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 charitable institution until … hospital, amounting annually to 1,681 6 s. 7 d. from rents and about 19 from consols, was consolidated with the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Fairs and trades EARLY HISTORY THE FAIR OF ST. GILES Winchester, … foot of St. Giles Down, near but not too near the coast and served by ancient roads, was predestined for the haunt of … from William Rufus the grant of a fair on the vigil, feast and morrow of St. Giles, to be held 'on the Eastern hill of …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… Winchester 1541-1857 INTRODUCTION Like Canterbury and Rochester, Winchester cathedral was reorganized after the … replace the monks. The offices of archdeacon of Winchester and Surrey were unaffected. Henry VIII issued statutes for … appointments do not give the number of the prebends, and the succession has to be traced by reference to …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… In certain particulars it was moulded by royal licence and enactment, others clearly derive from remote antiquity. … the convicted citizen suffered brutal mutilation 2 and blinding. This law may well have been the Conqueror's. In … the warrant of royal charter to Wallingford, Portsmouth and possibly elsewhere. One illustration of this may be …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… owed its first beginnings to its important geographical and political status 3 rather than to any deliberate trade … before or only after the Conquest it was only a part, and at first not necessarily a vital part of the borough … granting to the citizens of Winchester all the liberties and customs which they had enjoyed during the time of Henry …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… the Earl; 'then it was taxed 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, and there are no grounds for assuming it to be older than the … William, the castle was no doubt raised by his orders, 3 and from the first it has been the special stronghold of the …