14th ANNUAL tSSU'E • • WINCHESTER AND - FOR '1: CONTAINING FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD, MOODY, Author of "Sketches of Hampshire," &c. ILATELY PUBLISHED BY HIM AS A CHART-PRICE 6d.,-THE COPYRIGHt PURCHASED BY THE PUBLISHERS OF THIS DIRECTORY;) TRAXSLA.TIO::N OF THE ACT OF UNION OF THE PARISH El OF ST. ~iAURICE AND ST. MARY KALENDAR i A RAL AND PHYSICAL THERMOMETER j Council ]}feetings, List of Fairs, Carriers, c8'c; WITH USEFUL INFORMATION RELATING TO THE CITY. ILLUSTRATED WITH AN ENCRAVINC. • PRINTED, PUBLISHED, AND SOLD BY· G. & H. GILMOUR, SQUARE, AND TO BE HAD OF ALL BOOKSELLERS. 1 1 I l I C 0 N TENTS. • Pqe hg• Chr(')nological Aecount cf Win­ Water Works' Comp~y • - 2!> chester. By H. Moody Natives' and Citizens' Society .. ib. Translation of the Act of Union of the Parishes of St. M aurice Aliens' Society - • • ib. and St. Mary Kalendar Anti-Mendicity Society • • ib • .Moral and Physical Thermometer Winchester Savings' Bank • ib. Registration Memoranda County Hospital .. - - 27. Railway and Country Carrier• \Vinchester Museum • • ib. List of Fairs (Hampahire) Union • - • ib. Post Office Cemetery .. • 23 County Authoritie1 Church of England Institute .. ib. Almanac Church of England Young Men'e Soc1ety - .. - .. ib. Directory.. ' Propagation of the Gospel Socy. ib.. Barrack Department • • ib. Corporation - • - • 21 Auditors and Aa~essors - ib. Mechanics' Institute - • ib. .. ib. Constabulary • - - ib. Inland Revenue - - Members of I,ar1iament - - 22 Stnmp Office • .. • ib. .. ib. Assessed Taxes - .. .. ib. Ma•ristrates0 - - . - Pavement Board - - - ib. Property and Income Tax • ib. .. 2~ : Diocese of Winchester - - ib. Christian Knowledge Society 1 Cathedral -- - - 23 Horticultural Society - - ib. Parochial Churches -- • ib. 'Vinchester Club -- - ib. Catholic Chapel -- .. 24 FarmP-rs' Club .. - .. ib. · Dissenting Chapels .. • .. ib. Winchester & S"Outhern Counties Society for the Improvement St. Mary's College .. .. ib. of Domestic Poultry · -- ib• . Diocesan Training School- - 25 Fire Brigade - .. -- ib. Central School - ... • ib. Repstrars of Births, Deaths and St. Cross Hospital - • ib. - • Marriages ---- ib • Magdalen Hospital - - ib. Alphabetical List of Gentry and Morley's College .. - - ib. Professional Persons • - 30 St. John's Hospital­ - - ib. Classification of Trades and Pro- Christ's Hospital - - ib. fessions • --- 33 Dr. Layfield's Charity - .. ib. Principal Residents in the Vici- nity of Winchester - ... (6 Corn Exchange - - • ib. Advertiiementa Gas Compan,. • • * ~li COPYRIGH'r PVR.CFB.:SEJJ BY G. & H. GIJ~~IOt'lt, CHRO:NOI.~OGICAL ACCOUNT OF 'VINCIIESTER. B Y HE N R Y AI 0 0 D Y. "'VINCHESTER hath given place of Bhth, Education, Baptism, Marriage, Gemots, Synods, National and Provincial, and Sepulchre, to more Kings, Queen;J, Princes, Dukes, Earles, Barrons, Bishops and Mitred Prelates, before the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Two ll~'l.dred ancl Thhty-nine, than all the then Citys of England together could do." Oily 'fables. AD, 178 The cathedral founded by King Lucias on the site of a Pagan temple, and Donatus appointed bishop. 303 The cathedral levelled wi.th the ground by order of the Roman Emperor Dioclesian. 312 The cathedral rebuilt. f) 16 Winchester taken by the Saxons under Cerdic, and the cathedral perverted into a temple of 'V oden. 619 Winchester became the capital of .the kingdom of Wessex. 635 Kenegils, King of Wessex, converted into Christianity by St. Birinus, who was appointed to the see of Winchester, and from whom there has been an uninteiTupted succession of bishops. 648 The cathedral rebuilt from its foundations. 827 Egbert, King of W essex, having subdued the several kingdoms of the Heptarchy, crowned in the cathedral as King of all England, and 'Yinchester became the metropolis of the kingdom. 837 St. Swithin appointed to the see of Winchester. 852 The original command for the payment of tithes throughout the kingdom, subscribed by King Ethelwold before the high altar of the cathedral. 856 A guild of merchants (the fust in England), established in thia city. SGO The city sacked and burnt by the Danes. 871 The city again taken by the Danes, who, having plundered the cathedral, massacred its clergy. 897 King Alfred laid the foundation of the New :\finster, afterwards removed to Hyde, to the north of the cathedral . • 904 King Edward the Elder, founded St. 'Mary•s Abbey, at the eut end of the High-stre('t. 2 OHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF WJNCllBSTER. A.D. 930 The city besieged by the Danes, when the combat between Guy EaTl of V{ arwick and Colbrand the Danish Giant, is said to have taken place in Dane-mark meadow. 959 King Edgar it is said, having defeated the Welsh, required them to pay a tribute of 300 wolves' heads annually, to be delivered at the palace of the bishop of \Vinchester, s.ince called Wolvesey. A law enacted, declaring that the Winchester Measure should be observed throughout the kingdom. 963 Ethelwold appointed bishop, who rebuilt the cathedral and constructed the present crypt. 984 The regular canons displaced at the cathedral and monks placed in their room. 1002 The massacre of the Danes throughout the kingdom commenced in this city. 1041 King Edward the Confessor crowned in the cathedral. 1042 Queen Emma, as is reported, underwent the fiery ordeal of walking over nine red hot ploughshares in the nave of the cathedral. 1066 Alwyn, Abbot of the New M:inster and uncle to King Harold, with twelve of his monks, slain at the battle of Hastings. 1067 "\Villiam the Conqueror erected a castle on the site of the present barracks. 1069 The curfew first established in this city and afterwards extended to the nation in general. 1070 At a council held in this city, Stigand, Archbishop of Canter­ bury and Bishop of ·Winchester and three other prelates, were deposed, and Walkelin appointed to the see of Win­ chel'lter, by whom the cathedral was rebuilt and enlarged. 1077 :Earl W altheof beheaded on the brow of St. Giles• s hill. llOO The body of King "\Villiam Rufus brought in a charcoal-maker's cart from the New Forest, and interred in the cathedral. The marriage of Henry I. and good Queen Maud solemnized in the oathedra1. 1101 King Henry I. gmnted a charter of pl'ivileges to the city. 1110 The establishment of the New Minster removed to Hyde. 1132 Bishop de Blois founded the Hospital of St. Cross. 1139 A synod of Bishops held at W olvesey. 1141 The Empress Matilda crowned in the cathedral. 'Volvesey besieged and the city a scene of battle for seven weeks. A dreadful fire which destroyed a royal palace, tw() abbeys, twenty churches, and the greater part of the houses of the city, a misfortune Winchester never recovered. 1184 King Henry I I. conferred on the chief magistrate of Winchester the title of .Ho~/or, being twenty years before London enjoyed the same honor. 1198 King Richard I. re-crowned in the Cathedral on his return from captivity. 1190 Bishop de Lucy restores the navigation of the river Itchen. which he extends to Alresford. 1207 King Henry Ill. bom in the castle. CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF WINCHB8'111!R • 3 .A..D. 1"208 King John granted a charter conferring on the citizens the right of electing their own magistrates, framing laws for their government, and of collecting the royal dues for their own benefit. 1213 King John having resigned his crown to Pandolph, the pope's legate, accepted the same as the vassal of the Papal see. 1243 The monks of the cathedral refused to admit William of Va­ lentia, who had been chosen bishop by the king, and elected William de Raley whose election was ratified by the pope, but who, upon attempting to take possession, found the gates of the city closed against him by the command of the king. 1249 Thirty persons, some of them of the city, convicted and executed for a system of robbery and extortion. 1258 A parliament met at Winchester and appointed Prince Edward seneschal of the kingdom. 1258 A parliament held at the castle, by which, the statutes lately passed at Oxford were abrogated, and the liberties of the city of London annulled. 1262 The city besieged, taken and plundered by the barons' party under the Earl of Leicester, when many of the Jews here resident were massacred. 1264 An alarming riot, in which Kingsgate, the church of Saint Swithin, and the cathedral priory, were burnt to the ground. 1270 Another parliament met here, which voted supplies for a crusade to be undertaken by Prince Edward. 1276 King Edward I. held a parliament in the city. 1285 Parliament again met here, and passed the ordinances known as The Statutes of Winchester. 1303 In a cause between the citizens of Winchester and those of London, it was declared, " That all persons free of the guild of merchants of the former cit:r, should be free of the latter, and of all dues a.nd customs whatever." 1304 Eernard Pereres, a foreign hostaget eseaped from his confine­ ment in the castle, whereupon the king committed the mayor and aldermen as prisoners to the tower of London, and fined them 300 marks, and declared void the liberties of the city. At the intercession of the queen, the mayor and aldermen were shortly afterwards released, and its former honours re­ stored to the city. 1307 John Devenish founded the hospital of St. John the Baptist. 1329 Edmund, Earl of Kent, brother to Edward II. beheaded in front of the castle, 1330 At a parliament held in this city, Mortimer, Earl of March • was impeached as a traitor. 1333 King Edward appointed Winchester as the general wool mart for the kingdom 1363 The wool mart removed to Calais. 1366 William of Wykeham succeeded to the see of 'Vinchester.