Hunt, Thomas Frederick; Moyes, James [Bearb.]: Exemplars of Tudor Architecture, Adapted To Modern Habitations: With Illustrative Details, Selected From Ancient Edifices; And Observations on the Furniture of the Tudor Period (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, And Green, 1830)

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Item, paide to John Godfrey for a lode of tymber . vjs.
Item, paide to Robert Wright the glasyar, for making of all the glasse
wyndows of the manour place, with the sodar, and for xiij.
skuttchens with armes iiijZz.
Item, paide to John Adams for vj. days thatching ijs. ijrf.
Item, paide to the painter for iiij. days . xviijcZ.
Item, paide to John Chapman for a night’s watch. ijc?.
Item, paide to my Lorde of Bury* for a clamp of bricke, vjxx iiijm ijcc.. xxZz. xs.
Item, paide to Thomas Rawdon for barres for ij. windows of brycke for
the tower <. ixs. ixcZ.
Item, paide to Hary Bondis and his men, for setting and burnyng a
clampe, as aperythe by another book xxxijs. viijc?.
Item, pd. to Wm Daye for making iij. payer of bryck molds xijrf.
Item, paide for a lb. of glue iijcZ.
Item, paide to Roger Tom, freemason, xv. days work, at iiijc?. per day .. vs.

could be procured in various places, goods and commodities of every kind were chiefly sold at
fairs; to which, as to one universal mart, the people resorted periodically, and supplied most
of their wants for the ensuing year. The display of merchandise, and the conflux of cus-
tomers, at these principal and almost only emporia of domestic commerce, was prodigious;
and they were therefore often held on open and extensive plains. One of the chief of them
seems to have been that of St. Giles’s Hill, or Down, near 'Winchester. It was instituted and
given as a kind of revenue to the Bishop of Winchester by William the Conqueror, who by his
charter permitted it to continue for three days. But in consequence of new royal grants,
Henry III. prolonged its continuance to sixteen days. Its jurisdiction extended seven miles
round, and comprehended even Southampton, then a capital trading town : and all merchants
who sold wares within that circuit forfeited them to the bishop. Officers were placed at a
considerable distance, at bridges and other avenues of access to the fair, to exact toll of all
merchandise passing that way. In the mean time, all shops in the city of Winchester were
shut. In the fair was a court called the pavilion, at which the bishop’s justiciaries and other
officers assisted, with power to try causes of various sorts for seven miles round; nor, among
other singular claims, could any lord of a manor hold a court baron within the said circuit,


Abbot of St. Edmond’s.