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86 de Farnham usque Collegium Wynton, iis iiiid. The following extract, from the undated roll of Henry V., shows us how they were carried, and protected during the carriage:—

In panno lineo erupto pro organis Collegii cooperiendis cariandis usque Clere xxd. In dicto panno incerando xxd. In baculis fraxineis pro eisdem organis portandis viiid.

The following extracts from this roll of extraordinary expenses would be of considerable value, if the churches, to which they refer, had not subsequently undergone, as I fear is the case with most of them, very considerable alterations, and in some cases total destruction. In order to explain how these charges occur among the expenses of Winchester College, I may observe that the Founder, when he transferred to his Colleges the rectories and manors, which he had purchased of certain foreign abbeys, with a view to their endowment, required of them that they should put the chancels of the churches into thorough repair, and even rebuild them if necessary. This was accordingly done at Harmondsworth, Isleworth, Heston, Hampton, and Twickenham, in Middlesex; and at Hamble and Hound in Hampshire. The five first mentioned places ceased to be the property of the College in the time of Henry VIII., who took them in exchange for other properties, which had belonged to suppressed monasteries:—

In soluto pro operibus novi (sic) cancelli (sic) ecclesiæ de Harmondsworth factis annis prædictis, (scil. 20, 21, Ric. II.) una cum vitriatione fenestrarum, et cum expensis dedicationis ejusdem cancelli lxviiili iiis ob.

Item solut' pro operibus cancellarum (sic) novarum (sic) de Heston et Iselworth cum vitriatione fenestrarum et dedicatione earumdem, præter cs receptos de Cotfre dñi, ut patet in computo de annis xxiido et xxiiitio iiiixx xiiiili.

Item solut' pro operibus murorum cancelli novi (sic) factis apud Hampton in Com' Middlesex' una cum expensis factis pro materia providenda pro cancello de Twickenham ut patet, &c. (1, 2, Hen, IV.), lxvili. iiiis viid.

Item in nova constructione tecti ejusdem cancelli de Hampton et vitriatione v fenestrarum ejusdem (3, 4, Hen, IV.), xiili: xiiis: vid.

Item in nova constructione cancelli de Twickenham præter vitriationem fenestrarum, quæ adhuc non est facta, ut patet, &c., xxxiili: xiis: viid.

Item solut' pro operibus factis in Ecclesia de Hamele, et in nova constructione tecti ecclesiæ ibidem, ut patet in computo de annis reg' Hen, 3o et 4o præter expensas novi columbarii ibidem facti, quod computatur inter opera dñi, xviili viis id.

The charges of the repairs of this church, with its dependent chapels of Hound, Bursledon, and Letley, hodie Netley, extend over several years, and are accounted for by the Bursar among the ordinary expenses. In 12 and 13 of Hen. IV., there is a charge of xiiis, paid to the suffragan of the Bishop of Winchester for the consecration of the altars of the chapel of Bursledon, and Letley; and a similar charge in the undated roll of Henry V. for the consecration of altars at Hound and Bursledon.

In the same year the bell tower of the church of Hamble-le-Rice underwent very considerable repairs, if, indeed, it was not entirely rebuilt, the materials for which were provided at the following cost:—

In duodenis de bordes, et tribus plankes emp' per Willm Ikenham