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" Anclover and its Neighbourhood." 



"brother to the King and the daughter of the Earl of Warwick visited 

 Andover at this time, and the ringers were paid vid. for ringing the 

 bells on the occasion. 



Under a commission given by Edward VI. the Church goods were 

 sold, and amongst the Public Records is a certificate of Sir Henry 

 Seymour and others as to the restoration of these goods. This 

 certificate is of the date 2 and 3 of Philip & Mary. The Church 

 goods of the villages around are given. Under Andover we read, 

 iC certain ornaments sold to Richard Sedgwick and to William 

 Spenser and to Wm. Sentlove," and this note: — "A suit of vest- 

 ments of white damask sold to John Bedham for 23s. 3d. — not paid." 

 Amongst the chantry certificates are the following notes : — " Our 

 Lady's Chantry "A Stipendiary " ; " An Obit." 



In the reign of Henry VII. Thomas Bekington left to S. Mary's 

 College, at Winchester, amongst other gifts, one messuage with 

 three tofts at Andover. 



Andover, had, like many other towns, her dorms Dei — God's 

 house — which was here dedicated to S. John the Baptist. In 1247 

 a royal charter was granted for the Hospital of S. John at Andover, 

 and in 1251 license was given to the master, brethren, and sisters 

 of the hospital to take in a certain open place lying opposite their 

 house, and to build a chapel upon it. Edward III., in 1340, gave 

 the wardenship of the hospital to his clerk, John de Derby. The 

 seal of the hospital represented a John the Baptist holding an Agnus 

 Dei in his hand. I cannot find any document, either amongst the 

 town archives or in the parish chest, connected with this hospital, 

 but it is mentioned in a churchwarden's book of the date 1471. 

 The entry is peculiar : — " Item receptus de hominibus de la spetyll 

 14^. pro uno rame." And also, in the council book named Liber A 

 we read of a piece of waste ground opposite the Hospital of S. John, 

 near Andover. In the Liber A council book is the following entry : — 

 "Mem. it is condescended and agreed by the whole twenty-four 

 forward men that the tenement called S. John's House with all the 

 lands thereunto belonging shall be taken as part of the chamber 

 lands of Andover, and the chamberlains of the said town shall 

 receive the rents of the same and give acct thereof." On the 20th 



