A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



and sixth by Lester of London, 1 742 ; and the third, 

 fifth, seventh, and eighth by Mears of London, 



I843-7- 



The plate comprises two chalices and patens of 

 1626, the gift of Ann wife of John Major, alderman, 

 to ' Holirudes,' 1627, a plate of 1685, inscribed 

 ' Christ is the living Bread which came downe from 

 heaven,' two flagons of 1765, and an almsdish of the 

 same date given by Robert Bradsell, vicar. There are 

 also a pewter dish given 1662 by Henry Embris and 

 two pewter plates without inscription. 



The registers commence in 1653. Churchwardens' 

 accounts are complete from 1699. 



The following chantries were settled in this 

 church: For William Nycoll and Annys and Alice 

 his wives, and for Richard Thomas and Thomas 

 Payne, founded after 1452. As originally founded by 

 William Nycoll it was worth 8 1 3/. ^tt., the stipend 

 of the priest being 6 l$s. 4^., an obit i 6s. 8</., 

 and the remaining l$s. \d. for repairs. 00 The 

 anniversary was kept on 25 April. Subsequently the 

 foundation was enlarged by his wife or wives for two 

 stipendiaries receiving 6 and 6 1 3*. \d. respectively; 

 and the worth of the whole foundation was 

 15 I3/. 4</. 4 " Under 1553 we find pensions of 6 

 and _5 paid respectively to the stipendiaries at Holy 

 Rood. 



William Gunter, apparently after 1493, founded a 

 chantry here worth j for the souls of his parents and 

 himself. His priest was to receive 6, and i was 

 reserved for repairs to tenements belonging to the 

 chantry. 481 



John Renawd, burgess, in 1422 left 10 marks for a 

 chaplain to celebrate here, and a penny in bread or 

 silver to every poor man coming to his anniversary." 3 



The mind of John Mascal and Margery his 

 wife was kept here on 10 November at the annual 

 cost of i os. 9</. 484 



John James, burgess, by his will (2 September, 

 1471) gave legacies to all the churches and to Alice 

 his wife a life interest in certain properties on condi- 

 tion of her holding his anniversary here. On her 

 death the property was to pass to the corporation with 

 the same condition." 5 The mind of Margery Marsh 

 was also kept here. The mayor and burgesses held 

 land for the purpose of this and the preceding obit, 

 worth i 3 1. 4</. 426 



THE FRENCH CHURCH. Within the parish 

 of Holy Rood in Winkle Street is the hospital of 

 St. Julian or God's House, an ancient foundation 

 which has been dealt with above. 417 The only re- 

 mains of the ancient buildings are the chapel and 

 the entrance gateway adjoining it on the west. These 

 form the frontage to Winkle Street, and being of 

 late twelfth-century date are part of the original 

 buildings of the hospital. They have, however, lost 

 nearly every ancient feature by ' restoration.' Till 

 1 86 1 great part of the remaining buildings of the 

 same date was standing. The tradition of the French 

 congregation having been settled here in the time of 

 Edward VI, though alleged in a law case of 1 749, 

 appears to be incapable of proof. 413 The earliest 

 notice is probably to be derived from a petition to 



the corporation 489 in (May?) 1567 by a body of 

 Walloons who had obtained permission from Queen 

 Elizabeth to settle in the town ; they beg that they 

 may have a church assigned for their worship, that they 

 may have leave to exercise their trade of whatever 

 kind in the town, or at least ' such misteries and 

 occupacions ' as had not been practised in the country, 

 with permission to employ in the same their own 

 people, as unskilled labour would be prejudicial to 

 their work, and so to the town. The petition, which 

 contained other points, concluded with a request for 

 the good offices of the corporation with the Queen's 

 Council and the bishop of Winchester, out of the 

 ' humanity ' they bore ' towards the afflicted for the 

 Gospel's sake,' and with an assurance that their settle- 

 ment in the town would soon be found a public 

 benefit. 



The answer of the corporation was but half en- 

 couraging : they might exercise trades hitherto un- 

 known, but workmen from their own countries could 

 not be permitted ; as for other trades, shoemakers 

 and tailors, there were too many in the town already; 

 for other points raised they must apply elsewhere. 

 Accordingly they appealed to Bishop Home, who 

 recommended the case to Cecil on 30 June and again 

 19 September, 1567 ; after which the Council replied 

 that ' twenty families of strangers might be permitted 

 to settle in the town, with ten servants to each house- 

 hold, on condition that each took and instructed two 

 English apprentices in their science for seven years 

 and that after seven years for every two strangers they 

 kept one Englishman. During seven years they should 

 pay but half strangers' subsidies for wares made in 

 Southampton, to be carried out only from the port ; 

 and were to have the same privileges as the strangers 

 at Sandwich. 4 * 



We find this congregation of Walloon strangers 

 settled in God's House chapel before December, 

 1567, at which period the register of the church 

 commences ; and as we learn from the register the 

 same year was that of their admission into ' Hamp- 

 ton.' 4S1 The occupation of the chapel was, under 

 authority, by permission of Queen's College, Oxford, 

 to which body the entire hospital and so the chapel 

 of the house belonged. The settlers appear mostly 

 to have come from Lisle, Valenciennes, and other 

 places in the Low Countries, from Normandy and 

 the Channel Islands. Their early history is to be 

 gathered from the register, but cannot be detailed 

 here ; 4M but various names of subsequent interest in 

 town history begin to appear. The family of Saravia 

 were settled among the early refugees. In the com- 

 municants' list of July, 1569, we find Christopher 

 de Saravia and his wife, the father and mother of the 

 celebrated Adrian de Saravia, who was master of the 

 grammar school before February, i$j6. t3S In an 

 entry of June, 1 571, Saravia is described as 'minister,' 

 and it is possible he may have officiated as pastor of 

 the congregation at this time. The discipline of the 

 church was strict, and the records are full of interest. 

 On 4 September, 1591, Queen Elizabeth visited South- 

 ampton with her whole court, remaining till the 

 7th about mid-day, when the strangers, having been 



"*> Chant. Cert. 51. 

 421 Ibid. 52 ; Boke of Remembrances, 

 fol. 91 A ; Steward' Bk. 1486. 

 4M Chant. Cert. 51. 

 483 Madox, Form. Angl. 431. 

 <J4 Steward 1 ! Bk. 1457. 



4JS Liber Niger, foL 71 ) see also for 

 this and Margery Mascal, Chant. Cert. 52, 

 No. 60, but in the town book next cited 

 the name it given as Margery Marsh. 



426 Boke of Remembrances, fol. 91*. 



4 V.C.H. Hann, ii, 202. 



528 



488 Davies, op. cit. 403, ice. 



Cott. MSS. Vesp. F. ir, fol. 259. 



480 Cal. S.P. Dam. 1566-79, pp. 31, 32. 



481 Orig. Reg. (Somerset House). 

 483 Davies, op. cit. 405, &c. 



438 Temp. T. Overey, sub-canon. 



