Note 33 — SECOND DAY.
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This was the first place where the curfew was established.
[34] Add. MSS. 6,768, British Museum.
[35] Of the eleven streets mentioned in the Winton Domesday book, only two—“Mensterstret” and “Colobrockstret” retain their names.
[36] Archbishop Trench. The name may have been more or less in use before.
[37] Harl. MSS. 66.
[38] Though one destroyed in Henry II.’s reign seems to have been near the Westgate. One existed in Henry III.’s reign.
[39] Pat. Rolls, 5 Henry V., p. 2.
[40] The Corporation of Winchester used to send this accommodating Marquess presents of sack and sugar-loaves.
[41] There was great anxiety that the Mayor should keep up his dignity. He was not to be seen without his gown unless he was going into the country, and his wife was to wear a scarlet gown. In 1584 it was decreed that “no citizen that hath been bayliff of the city shall wear in the street hose or stockings of white, green, yellow, redde, blewe, weggett or oringe color.”
[42] Among the Tanner MSS. 76 in the Bodleian there is a curious account (about 1600) of the devil appearing to four women who were in Winchester gaol. He came to the windows like a fire and shook the gratings, and on another occasion was like “a great black thing with great eyes.” The women screamed, and the keeper ran in but saw nothing. He observed however, that one of the candles he held in his hands blew out, and the other burnt blue, and that the devil had left an “unsavoury” odour in the room.
[43] This chapel was burnt down in 1231. Perhaps both it and St. Catherine’s were originally of wood. A curious old dagger and spear head were found where the new house on the hill was built.
[44] Pat. Rolls, 4 Henry III.
[45] A horrible execution took place in Winchester in 1259. Walter de Scoteneye was torn to pieces by horses for the murder of W. de Clare.