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 ©riQinal Bocumnits. WINCHESTER IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. The following Inquest, which Mr. Hunter kindly brought under my notice some j'cars ago, was found among the Miscellaneous Exchequer Records of the Queen's Remembrancer's Office. The contents may be of some value to a future historian of the city of Winchester. VEREDICTUM XII JURATORUM WINTON. Dicunt quod tempore Henrici regis, patris domini Edwardi qui nunc est, Willielmus de Ralige tunc Winton episcopus appropriavit sibi medie- tateni vici extra j)ortam borialem Winton et medietatem vici extra portam occidentalem Wintofi, qufe solebant esse in manibus cjusdem H. regis et predecessorum suoruni et pertinentes civitati sua) prjedictic, et per quos Iqtiod ?) tenentes medietatem dictorum vicorum a tempore illo subtraxerunt et seperarunt ab omnibus honcribus dictum regem et civitatem prsdictara contiugentibus ; unde per illam appropriationem magna utensilia in quibus operantur burelli et chaloncs in magna parte in illam libertatem sic appropriatam se subtrahunt : Et quod quodlibet tale utensile debet domino regi quinque solidos per annum in ilia libertate infra quinque leucas circa Winton: Et similiter quodlibet utensile in quibus operantur duplici chalones xii denarios per annum ; et in quibus 0{)erantur singuli chalones vi den. per ann. : Et quia in ilia libertate sic appropriata nichil solvunt, eo quod ballivi Winton non habent ingressum in illam libertatem ad districtiones faciendas sicut prius faeere consueverunt, fere omnes operarii burellorum et chalonum a civitate se subtrahunt et ibi mancnt, et omnes alii tenentes domini cpiscopi adeb liberi sunt sicut alii de gilda mercatoria ad emendum et vendendum omnimodas mercandisas ad magnum damnum civitatis praedicta3. Item cum coronatores civitatis Winton venirant ab {ad?) abbatiam de Hyda, et vellent videre quendum mortuum, scilicet bernarium ' domini regis, et suum faeere officium, prredictus abbas et sui non permiserunt ; set dominum W. do Suttone, coronatorem totius comitatus, feccrunt venire per quandam posternam, qu£e seducit ad Bertonam quaj est in hundredo de Mucheledevere, ad prcdictum officium faciendum, in prsejudicium libertatis prjcdictai. Item Abbas de Hyda appropriavit sibi totam abbatiam et curiam suam qua? pcrtinens est civitati in precinctu libertatis cjusdem ad appropriandum {appruandum ? ) hundred' sua ( .«u?«m .^ ) de Mucheledevere; ita quod coronatores ncc ballivi civitatis prtudicta) possunt faeere suum officium de felonibus et malefactoribus sicut solent et debent. Et quamplures tenentes domini regis sectam domino re2;i debentes et alia honcra ct servitia facientes.'' 1 Beniarius hero means one of the king's - The sentence beginning " Et quam- dog-feeders. See Hearne's Liber Niger, plures," &c., is eitlier part of the pre- vol. i., p. 357. Ducange voc. Brennarii. ceding sentence, and ought not to be Ejusd. Gloss. Franc, vor. Bernier. So separated from it, or is an imperfect called from the hnin used for that purpose. sentence without any verb. The following Hearne, who is rarely hapjiy in etymolo- word, here written " DIctus," is open to gical conjectui'es, .supposes him to be the doubt in the original MS. king's bear-ward.