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(§ome ^tcottiit of t[jc "W^nC Paufa. 



§|HE Vyne is said by some to derive its name from vines 

 planted here by Probus^ the Roman Emperor; by others 

 from Vindomis, the lost Roman station, which lay either between 

 Reading- and Winchester, or between 8ilchester and Winchester. 

 Mr, Reynolds and Mr. Akerman have identified the Vyne with 

 Vindomis (the first syllable of which it retains), and, if this be so, 

 the existence of a house here is carried back to the Antonine Itin- 

 erary, in which Vindomis is mentioned. A Roman ring was found 

 by Chaloner Chute near the Vyne, about 1780, and was exhibited at 

 Somerset House in 1785. It bears the uncommon name of Senicianus, 

 and it is a remarkable coincidence that the same name is mentioned 

 in connection with the loss of a ring by one Silvianus, on another 

 Roman inscription, at Lydney, in Gloucestershire. Other apparently 

 Roman remains have been found in the g-rounds. The ring is still 

 at the Vyne. 



Nothing is known of any Saxon settlement, except that Domesday 

 Book says that Ulvevn held Sherborne (the parish in which the 

 Vyne stands) in the time of Edward the Confessor. At the Conquest 

 it became part of the lands of Hugo De Port. In the reign of 

 King John the lord of the manor of the Vyne obtained leave to 

 build a chantry in his grounds, the parish Church being a mile 

 distant, and to maintain a priest ; it was further endowed by Sir 

 T. de Cowdray, lord of the manor, with the license of Edward III. 

 and existed until the present chapel was built. A well-preserved 

 corbel from the old chantry is kept in the ante-chapel. 



The present house was built by Lord Sandes, in the reign of 

 Henry VIII. The picture of Henry VIII. by Holbein is in the 

 hall, as also is that of Charles Chute, the father of Chaloner Chute, 

 the Speaker, who purchased the house from the Sandys family about 

 the time of the Restoration. 



John Chute, descended from Chaloner Chute, and the friend of 



