Old Hampshire Mapped
Leland's Hampshire 1635-43
Transcription (7)Jewry Street
staple house
wool
town gate
St Michael's Church
King's Gate
Soke, The
Waldavus
Northumberland, Earl of
St Giles's Chapel
Ther is a streate in Winchestre that leadith right from the High Strete to the north gate, callyd the Jury, by cause Jues did enhabite it, and had theyr synagoge there.
Minns:- Jewry Street, where a number of Jews resided in the 12th and 13th centuries.
The staple houses for wolle at Winchestre lay from the west gate yn a back way to the north gate.
Minns:- This way is still known as Staple Garden.
S. Michael's Gate in Winchestre is spoken of of aunciente wryters, but that name is now out of use. Ther is a chirch of S. Michael by the Kinges Gate, whereon I conjecture that the Kinges Gate was sumtyme caullid S. Michael's Gate, or els the south gate.
Ther is a suburbe at the est gate of sum caullid the Soken: and is the biggest of al the suburbes longging to the cyte of Winchester.
Minns:- The Soke, so called from the Saxon soc, which signifies a free domain, the independent jurisdiction of the Bishop with its own Courts and a taxation probably lighter than that within the city.
In this suburbe be 2. paroche chirchis: and a litl without this suburbe estwarde on the toppe of an hille in the way to London is a chapelle of S. Gyles, that sumtyme, as apperith, hath bene a far bigger thyng.
Waldavus, Erle of Northumbreland, a noble Saxon or Dane, was behedid by the commaundement of King Wylliam Conquerour.
Minns:- Walteof (Waldevus), Earl of Northumberland, beheaded at Winchester May 31st, 1075.
Ther is also a litle suburbe without the west [gate, and in] it was a chirch or [chapell that now servith for a barn].
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