By the Rev. C. Collier, M.A., F.S.A. 309 



There was another fire in the town about the year 1647. The 

 Bursar of Winchester College, T. P. Kirby, Esq., has kindly given 

 me the following translated extracts from the bursar's book of that 

 year :— 



" Paid £1 to Robert Mountain, of Andever, who lost property at the fire valued 

 at £500." 



" Paid to other poor persons, viz., eighty -two families who lost their goods. £5." 



It may be as well to note here that in Dugdale we read that 

 King Edred gave fifty hides of land at Andover to Hyde Abbey, 

 but in the " Historia Major" we read that the gift was Andover 

 with five hides ; but the historian goes on to say " Quae omnia 

 Wilhelmus Conquestor pro voluntate sua abstulit et militibus suis 

 dedit." 



We may now relate matters in connection with the general history 

 of Andover. In 1155 Matthew Croc (after whom Crux Easton was 

 named) was Warden of the Forests of Andover, Wittingley, and 

 Dingley. The Forest of Andover was called the Brills of Andover, 

 Tithes of these forests were paid to the Canons of Salisbury. In 1165 

 the King (Henry II.) gave to Salisbury Minster, by charter, amongst 

 others, all the tithes of Andover. In 1213, June 7th, the King 

 (John) sent Robert de Kerely to the Sheriff of Hants, at Andover, 

 with two servants and their two horses, two boar hounds, three 

 veltrariis, twenty-eight hounds de mota, and sixteen greyhounds. 

 He sent, with Robert, William Croc and Peter de Cemel, and for 

 these men, their horses, and their dogs, the sherifi" was to supply 

 whatever they needed. In 1217 King John re-granted the manor 

 of Andover to William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, who held the 

 manor till his death. By a writ of May iiOth, 1226, the Sheriff of 

 Hants is commanded to give Matthew de Columbariis the Brills, 

 the hunting woods of Andover which the sheriff" had taken into the 

 King's hands on the Ear?s death. 



John visited the town twice. In the Patent Rolls we find that 

 Edward I. was here on February 20th and 21st, 1291, and from the 

 Close Rolls we learn that Edward II. was in Andover on February 

 1st, 1317. "Where did they find quarters in Andover ? Probably 



