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A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Fairs and trades EARLY HISTORY THE FAIR OF ST. GILES Winchester, … the coast and served by ancient roads, was predestined for the haunt of custom, quickened later by all the demands … Eastgate of the city, for when the traders' booths caught fire the suburb of 'Chushulle' was also burnt. 5 On the first …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… chalk down-land. Roman roads approach it from all sides, and the Itchen while navigable brought it into touch with … west sokes, or suburbs, which entirely surrounded it, were for long considered part of the city, so that at the inquiry … Attached to the Gildhall are the police station, the fire station, 77 the school of art and the public reading …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… William of Wykeham in 1387 on a site bought of the Prior and convent of St. Swithun, outside the jurisdiction of the … resting-place of the society. In this state they remained for a century and a-half without addition. At the Dissolution the college underwent expansion, taking in …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… In certain particulars it was moulded by royal licence and enactment, others clearly derive from remote antiquity. … this may be given. When in 1261 the itinerant justices sat at Wallingford 5 they heard that one Benet Hervy had been … consisted in the substitution of blinding and castration for the more usual punishment of the gallows, since none 'de …
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 … the king's demesne in the time of Edward the Confessor, 'for the king wished to have thence the full amount that King … was agreed that 'for the avoiding the peril and danger of fire every one of the twenty-four shall have ready at his …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… formerly belonged to Harold 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 … and the only matter worth noting is the destruction by fire early in 12956 of the king's great chamber in the outer …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the … in Battersea. 4 The work at the castle was advanced enough for its use as a royal residence before the end of the 11th … of the king and his attendants, with another 5 for fire and candles for the guard. The 'malignants' among his …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is nearly in the centre of the peninsula of Holderness, and consists of about 2000 acres. Two-thirds are arable, and … of Sir Robert Hildyard. The celebrated Andrew Marvel, M.P. for Hull in the time of Charles II., was born here, March … superior clay, great quantities of which are made into fire-bricks for furnaces and gas and other works, for which …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Wing 223. WING … with arms; the E. shield is charged with a lion rampant for Mowbray; the arms on the W. shield are defaced, but are … casing to show it. During a recent alteration a cast-iron fire-back, with an achievement of the Tudor royal arms, was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… NW) The parish lies in the valley of the Winterborne brook and has an area of 3,436 acres, entirely on Chalk. Until 1933 … they may well be represented among the Domesday entries for the eastern group of Winterbornes in Dorset. To the N., … internal flint wall, within which were extensive traces of fire. No details are available for the other two barrows, but …