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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 St. Mary, founded by William of Wykeham in 1387 on a site bought of the Prior and convent of St. … taken by Dr. Edwin Freshfield, solicitor to the Bank of England, when he was a boy in Commoners. They are those of …
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 … century it was, like nearly all the ancient boroughs of England and the Continent, an example of what Professor …
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 … shields on it in each bay, bearing the arms of the King of England, the Prince of Wales, the see of Winchester and …
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 … St. Cross: The Quadrangle Beaufort. FRANCE quartered with ENGLAND in a border gobony argent and azure. The buildings …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… HISTORY OF THE CASTLE The castle of Windsor appears first in history in the Domesday Survey in connexion with the manor of Clewer, … in the great series of castles that were planted all over England by the Conqueror to effect the subjugation of the …
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 … use, and a book called the Romance of the History of England was also sent there by the king's orders. 34 In 1206 …
Survey of London Monograph
… if, as seems probable, 'Andrew Windsor Norroy' who occurs in 1338 was Windsor herald the institution antedates the … years. Other writers date the institution of the office in 1364, when the pursuivant who brought King Edward news of … pursuivant of Brittany whom the Count of Montfort sent to England with news of the battle of Auray, fought on 29 …
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 … here, in which they entertained several of the kings of England on their way to and from the continent. The manor was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Wingrave 224. WINGRAVE. (O.S. 6 in. xxix. N.W.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. … Campana Michaelis', and with a shield of France quartering England, by John Danyell, 15th-century, now cracked. Books: …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Winkeburne. Wincheburne WINKEBURNE. WINCHEBURNE. In Wincheburne before the coming of the Normans, Swayne had … Gislebert de Tysun (whose fee it became afterwards) 1 had in demesne two car. and fifteen sochm. on four bov. of land, … belonging to the hospital of St. John's of Hierusalem in England, as parcel of the late preceptory of Newland in the …