Note 46 — THIRD DAY.
Reading edition
Called of Winchester from having been born there.
[47] These town ditches were let to different parties, the grass being of some value. In the Black Book we find, in Henry IV.’s reign, a grant by the Mayor of Winchester, giving to the Abbot and Convent of the Church of St. Barnabas, of Hyde, a certain part of a ditch called Walldych, extending from the Northern Bridge to a certain place called the Bowe, where flows Kyngesbroke. The convent to resign all claim to the fishing in the ditch, and give free ingress to a certain part at the end of the bridge called Northbrigge, for nets and all instruments for cleaning.
[48] In the Pat. Rolls, 43 Ed. III., there is an order for towers and walls to be repaired.
[49] Near this, at the commencement of the Andover Road, a Roman coin of the year 340 was found at a depth of sixteen feet. The staple grounds were within the walls here.
[50] The monks of St. Swithun had “Viridaria” or pleasure grounds outside the precincts.
[51] Founded by the brethren of St. Swithun’s for fifteen nursing sisters.
[52] Wykeham seems to have had a peculiar reverence for St. Thomas à Becket. The election of scholars into New College and Winchester School was to take place every year between the festival of the Translation of St. Thomas à Becket (July 7), and the 1st of October.
[53] There are here also three Anglo-Saxon charters, and in the Audit-room some fifteenth-century tapestries and the coats of mail worn by the warden’s escort.
[54] His father’s name was John Longe, perhaps from his stature.
[55] Does this similarity account for the proverbial good luck of the horse shoe?
[56] That is, Richmond, where Wykeham improved the palace.
[57] When Henry VI. founded Eton on the plan of Winchester, Wayneflete (the headmaster here and afterwards bishop) migrated with five fellows to the new foundation.
[58] Wykehamists are proud of this gallant soldier who fell recently, fighting in the Soudan, and have erected a memorial gateway in his honour.