Old Hampshire Mapped
Leland's Hampshire 1635-43
Transcription (4)Hyde Abbey
New Minster
St Mary's Abbey
Alfred
charnel house
Inkpen Family
[St. Mary Abbay] a litle by est withyn [the west gate], welle waterid with an arme of Alsford Ryver that rennith thorough it, and after to Wolvesey the bisshop's palace.
Minns:- St. Mary's Abbey, or the Nunna-Mynstre, of which not a vestige remains, occupied nearly the whole of the land now surrounded by Hyde and Colebrook Streets. It was founded by Alfred the Great and his wife, Eanswitha, who passed her widowhood within its walls.
Ther is a fair chapelle on the north side of S. Mary Abbay chirch in an area therby; to the wich men entre by a certen steppes; under it is a vault for a carnarie. One Inkepenne, a gentilman that berith in his sheld a scheker sylver and sables, was founder of it. Ther by 3. tumbes of marble of prestes custodes of this chapelle.
Minns:- 'Carnarie,' a charnel house, where the bones of the dead were deposited.
Minns:- Inkepenne. This family was of no small account in Winchester. Roger, John and Richard Inkpen were the founders of the Collegiate Church of Holy Trinity North of St. Mary's Abbey. Roger was Mayor of Winchester towards the end of the 12th century.
next
