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abbey acres of meadow adjoining parish afterwards aisles ancient structure annexed belonging Bishop of Winchester borough building castle cathedral century chancel chapel chapelry Charles charter Christchurch College commuted consists ditto Doomsday Book Earl east endowed erected extended feet formerly granted gross annual value Hampshire handsome held Henry VIII impropriators inhabitants island Isle of Wight Itchen John King known land living Lord Lymington manor mansion mayor mentioned miles mills nave nearly neighbourhood noble Norman occupied parish park Parliament patronage Petersfield ploughlands population port portion Portsea Portsmouth possessions present principal priory Queen Elizabeth rectory reign of Edward reign of Henry remains Richard de Redvers Romsey royal Saxon seat side situated Southampton stone style supposed tion tower town tythes vicarage village walls Waltham Wherwell whilst William of Wykeham William the Conqueror Winchester Cathedral Winchester College woods which furnished Wykeham
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Page 46 - WILL BEAR, SWIFTNESS IN ERRAND THE STAG'S FEET DECLARE : LOADED HIS LEFT HAND APT TO LABOUR SAITH : THE VEST HIS NEATNESS, OPEN HAND HIS FAITH. GIRT WITH HIS SWORD, HIS SHIELD UPON HIS ARM, HIMSELF AND MASTER HE'LL PROTECT FROM HARM.
Page 46 - Porker's Snout not nice in diet shows The Padlock, shut no secret he'll disclose. Patient the Ass his master's wrath will bear Swiftness in errand the Stag's feet declare; Loaded his left hand apt to Labour saith : The Vest his neatness, Open Hand his faith. Girt with his Sword, his Shield upon his arm Himself and Master he'll protect from harm.
Page 350 - That man is Cowardly base and deserveth not the name of a. gentleman or Souldier that is not willing to sacrifice his life for the honor of his God, his Kinge and his Countrie. Lett noe man commend me for doeinge of it, but rather discommend themselves, as the cause of it, for if God had not taken or harts for or sinnes he would not haue gone so long vnpunished. Jo felton.
Page 223 - Rufus, being slain as before related, was laid in a cart belonging to one Purkess, and drawn from hence to Winchester, and buried in the cathedral church of that city.
Page 50 - ... reconnaissance will be necessary to disclose the relations of the quartz monzonite, the intrusive porphyries, and the andesitic flows. The structural features of the Blossom ore body may be best understood by reference to the sketch plan and section of fig. 15. The main ore shoot measures about 300 feet from north to south, and 250 feet from east to west.
Page 192 - Plack, tradition reports that Edgar (surnamed the Peaceable), King of England, in the ardour of youth, love, and indignation, slew with his own hand his treacherous and ungrateful favourite, Earl Athelwold, owner of this forest of Harewood, in resentment of the Earl's having...
Page 114 - Wolmer forest in succession for more than a hundred years. This person assures me that his father has often told him that Queen Anne, as she was journeying on the Portsmouth road, did not think the forest of Wolmer beneath her royal regard. For she came out of the great road at Lippock, which is just by, and reposing herself on a bank smoothed for that purpose, lying about half a mile to the east of Wolmer pond and still called Queen's Bank...
Page 43 - Let our men and steeds assemble Panting for the wide champaign ; Let the ground beneath us tremble, While we scour along the plain.
Page 396 - Wassal, wassal, to our town, The cup is white and the ale is brown ; The cup is made of the ashen tree, And so is the ale of the good barley ; Little maid, little maid, turn the pin, Open the door and let us come in ; God be here, God be there, I wish you all a Happy New Year.