leave, they migrated outside the northern boundary of Winchester to a new abode which grew into a wealthy and flourishing house under the name of Hyde Abbey, leaving their old home to fall into decay and to be represented in modern days by a quiet graveyard.[63] As a trading centre Winchester ranked in Henry’s day, and long after, second to London alone; the yearly fair which within living memory was held on S. Giles’s day upon the great hill to the east of the city[64] preserved a faint reminiscence of the vast crowds of buyers and sellers who flocked thither from all parts of the country throughout the middle ages. [57] On Waldric (or Gualdric) and Laon see Guibert of Nogent, _De Vitâ suâ_, l. iii. c. 4, _et seq._ (D’Achéry, _Guib. Noviog. Opp._, p. 498, _et seq._). Cf. above, p. 22. [58] “Quæ [sc. Anglia] tunc temporis magnâ divitiarum florebat opulentiâ pro pace et justitiâ quam rex ejus Henricus ... in eâ faciebat.” Herman. Mon. _De Mirac. S. Mariæ_, l. ii. c. 1 (D’Achéry, _Guib. Noviog. Opp._, p. 534). [59] _Ib._ c. 4 (pp. 535, 536). [60] _Ib._ c. 6 (p. 536). [61] Herman. Mon., l. ii. c. 7 (D’Achéry, _Guib. Noviog. Opp._, p. 536). [62] At the date of the _Dialogus de Scaccario_ (A.D. 1178) its headquarters seem to have fluctuated between London and Winchester, and to have been quite recently, if they were not even yet, most frequently at the latter place. See the payments to the accountants: “Quisque iii denarios si Londoniæ fuerint; si Wintoniæ, quia inde solent assumi, duos quisque habet.”--_Dial. de Scacc._, l. i. c. 3 (Stubbs, _Select Charters_, p. 175, 3d ed.). [63] Flor. Worc. (Thorpe) vol. ii. p. 64. Ann. Waverl. a. 1111. The king’s charter confirming the removal is dated 1114; Dugdale, _Monast. Angl._, vol. ii. p. 444. [64] It is mentioned in Henry’s charter to Hyde; Dugdale, as above.