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jambs of yellow sandstone, and which was built up by order of 

 Dr. "William Lightburne, is still to be seen. 



In addition, the property included a large cellar, which bounded 

 to the church on the south, the entry gate of the college on the north, 

 and the lane on the west. These boundaries are precisely those of the 

 little garden lying between the great court and S. Audoen's church, 

 so that the cellar would appear to have been constructed beneath it ; 

 this probably communicated with the underground passage which so 

 long existed, and which was the subject of more than one lawsuit. 

 Another great cellar is described as lying on the north side of the 

 great door. 



In 1554, the gild are found letting the great garden, free egress and 

 regress being retained through the great outer door, and the door 

 leading into the garden from the court. In 1569, a further letting 

 took place, when a stipulation was made that ladders might be fixed in 

 the garden, on its becoming necessary to cover sir George Erowne's 

 chamber. Bj the year 1588, all the building formerly known as 

 Blakeney's Inns appears to have become ruinous, and the gild leased 

 it, with its appurtenances, in 1593, for sixty -one years, to Alderman 

 Nicholas "Weston. 



In the year 1535, sir Thady Cor, one of the chantry priests who 

 officiated at S. Anne's altar, resided in a house in S. Audoen's church- 

 yard, underneath which was a cellar known as S. Anne's work- 

 house."^ Over a certain part of this he agreed to build a loft with 

 stairs, and to roof the same. We learn from the recital of another 

 deed that this " workhouse " was a stable, and that it lay north of the 

 churchyard. 



It is noteworthy that certain of the documents which have been 

 quoted are marked as having been enrolled in Domesday, a record of 

 the Corporation, wherein deeds a:ffecting land in the city were bound 

 to be entered. 



Peopeety of the Gild, &c. 



In addition to the college and some premises close by, the 

 fraternity owned messuages and tenements in the parish of S. Michael, 

 in High-street, Corn Market, Cook-street, Kochel-lane, Keyzar's- 



1 The masons engaged in rebuilding portion of Christ Church Cathedral in 1564 

 had as a special \rorkplace one of the cellars under the church, probably what 

 was afterwards the Dean's stable. The cellar mentioned above was, no doubt, used 

 by workmen employed by S. Anne's gild, in connexion with its extensive property 

 in the neighbourhood. 



