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" Henry's reign, was a favourite ambush for outlaws, who there awaited the merchants and their trains of sumpter-horses travelling to or from Winchester ; even in the fourteenth century the wardens of the great fair of St. Giles held in that city paid five... "
Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England, from the Conquest to the ... - Page 96
by Thomas Hudson Turner - 1851 - 287 pages
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I. Origines celticę. II. Historical papers. Pudens and Claudia. The early ...

Edwin Guest - 1883 - 576 pages
...wardens of the great fair of St. Giles held in that city (Winchester) paid five mounted sergeants-at-arms to keep the pass of Alton during the continuance of the fair according to custom.' (Turner's Domestic Architecture, p. 107.) From coed, a wood, is derived the prepositional compound...
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I. Origines celticę. II. Historical papers. Pudens and Claudia. The early ...

Edwin Guest - 1883 - 570 pages
...wardens of the great fair of St. Giles held in that city (Winchester) paid five mounted sergeants-at-arms to keep the pass of Alton during the continuance of the fair according to custom.' (Turner's Domestic Architecture, p. 107.) From coed, a wood, is derived the prepositional compound...
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I. Origines celticę. II. Historical papers. Pudens and Claudia. The early ...

Edwin Guest - 1883 - 570 pages
...wardens of the great fair of St. Giles held in that city (Winchester) paid five mounted sergeants-at-arms to keep the pass of Alton during the continuance of the fair according to custom.' (Turner's Domestic Architecture, p. 107.) From coed, a wood, is derived the prepositional compound...
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Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society ..., Volume 3

Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales - 1885 - 758 pages
...wardens of the great 297 fair of St, Giles, held in that city, pnid five mounted sergeants-at-arffls to keep the pass of Alton during the continuance of the fair, ' according to custom.' " In a second reply Mr. \V. Chapman, writing from Farnham, says " I venture to claim for my neighbouring...
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Journal, Volume 3

1885 - 784 pages
...of robbers." fair of St. Giles, held in that city, paid fire mounted sergeants-at-arms to keep tbe pass of Alton during the continuance of the fair, ' according to custom.' " In a second reply Mr. W. Chapman, writing from Faniham, says " I venture to claim for my neighbouring...
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The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman: In Three ..., Volume 2

William Langland - 1886 - 616 pages
...century the wardens of the great fair of St Giles, held in that city, paid five mounted sergeant-at-arms to keep the pass of Alton during the continuance of the fair, " according to custom." ' W. Chapman says— ' The district (of Alton) is known to have been for a very long period the resort...
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A Short History and Description of the Town of Alton in the County of ...

William Curtis - 1896 - 264 pages
...the wardens of the great fair of St. Giles, held in that city, paid five mounted sergeants-at-arms to keep the pass of Alton during the continuance of the fair, according to custom."* It is evidently to some such personage that the allusion is made in the quotation :— " Poverte myght...
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Historic Sketches Round about Winchester: The Old Capital of England, a ...

William Thorn Warren - 1902 - 168 pages
...the wardens of the great fair of St. Giles, held in that city, paid five mounted sergeants-at-arms to keep the pass of Alton during the continuance of the fair, according to custom.* * History of the Town of Alton by Dr. Curtis. Cbe Beauworth fioard. I1 OUR BOYS, under ten years of...
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Chawton Manor and Its Owners

William Austen Leigh, Montagu George Knight - 1911 - 310 pages
...the warders of the great fair of St. Giles, held in that city, paid five mounted sergeants-at-arms to keep the Pass of Alton during the continuance of the fair, according to custom. In Langland's poem of ' Piers Ploughman, ' Peace is described as being robbed on his way to Winchester...
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