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A History of the County of Hampshire
… COLLEGE Immediately south-west of Wolvesey Palace in the southern suburb of the ancient city is the College of St. … William of Wykeham in 1387 on a site bought of the Prior and convent of St. Swithun, outside the jurisdiction of the … portrait would you see This emblematic figure well survey. The porker's snout not nice in diet shows: The …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The ancient custom THE ANCIENT CUSTOM OF WINCHESTER The … In certain particulars it was moulded by royal licence and enactment, others clearly derive from remote antiquity. … holding the more profitable demesne mills at farm. On the history of these a few words may be allowed. The receipts …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The borough BOROUGH In spite of the tradition that the … owed its first beginnings to its important geographical and political status 3 rather than to any deliberate trade … determined much of the character of the later internal history of the borough when royal influence gave place to …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The cathedral CATHEDRAL The history of the Old Minster of Winchester, setting aside the … may be said to begin with the coming of St. Birinus in 635 and his conversion to Christianity of King Kynegils. Birinus …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Palace WOLVESEY PALACE There is still to be described the ruined episcopal palace of Wolvesey, the fortified castle of Henry of Blois. The ruins and the later 17th-century palace (now used as a church … with the Hyde Cartulary; vide supra and under 'Political History.' …
Survey of London
… This street which was commenced in 1723 took its name from the mill shown in the manorial map in St. Pancras, Part II. In Rocque's Map of London (1746) can be seen the first building of the … to its present site at the corner of Cleveland Street and Mortimer Street. St. Pancras Female Charity School was …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor castle Architectural history ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF THE CASTLE The castle of Windsor appears first in history in … 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 …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor castle History THE CASTLE The authentic history of Windsor Castle … The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the …
Survey of London Monograph
… Windsor Herald WINDSOR HERALD The office of Windsor is said to have been instituted for the service of … 930), but since then the succession has been maintained and Windsor is now one of the six heralds in ordinary. Badge: …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. German) WINESTEAD ( St. German), a parish, in the union of Patrington, S. division of the wapentake of Holderness, E. … is nearly in the centre of the peninsula of Holderness, and consists of about 2000 acres. Two-thirds are arable, and …