There is a piece of ground near the house which, by the unpleasant name of the “Crawls,” commemorates a most noble action. The lady of Tichborne in Henry I.’s reign was famed for her liberality, and, when aged and dying, wished to establish a dole of bread to be given to all comers on every Lady Day. Her husband, who perhaps misliked such indiscriminate charity, replied that she should have as much land for the purpose as she could herself walk round while a torch was burning. Nothing daunted, she rose from her bed, commenced her pilgrimage, and on her hands and knees actually encircled several acres before her flame expired. The dole of 1,900 loaves continued to the end of the last century, when old Sir Roger’s misgivings were justified, and as a substitute money was given to the parish poor. There can be no doubt about the substantial character of the gift, but a few regard the story of the “Crawls” as somewhat airy, and even connect the name with our old friends the crows. A magnificent festival was held here lately when the present baronet came of age. It lasted three days, and at night the avenue of enormous elms and beeches shone with thousands of variegated lamps. Rich and poor were entertained, and many old Winchester people said, and deliberately too, that they did not think there ever was a more splendid spectacle. FOOTNOTES: [102] The Belgæ came to this country two hundred years before Cæsar. [103] Nearly opposite this church stands a large old building, now let in several tenements. It is called by the people in the neighbourhood “St. John’s Barracks,” or “Mundy’s Buildings.” The edifice is supposed to have been at different times a barrack and a workhouse. In one tenement there are remains of an oak staircase with an ornamental balustrade, and in another there is in an upper room a good chalk chimneypiece. [104] He was absolved in the chapter house. [105] One is the disused canal, another has a cascade. [106] Two miles from Twyford. [107] Since writing the above a Roman pottery kiln has been discovered about eight miles beyond Brambridge, on the property of Admiral Murray-Aynsley. It can be reached by train, being a mile and a half from the Botley station in the direction of Shidfield. [108] Mate. She married secondly one of the Hobbys who held this manor. [109] It is supposed a Gospel was read here during the perambulation of the bounds. [110] A turning north leads to Hampage from the Alresford (Magdalen) road, by which road Tichborne is about six miles from Winchester. THE END. INDEX. A. Aaron, 124 Abbey House, 72 Abbots Barton, 139 Ælwitha, 72 Æthelwold, 143, 147, 153, 156 Æthelwold’s Cup, 228, 231 Alfred, 59, 61, 93, 114, 126-7 Alfred Place, 126 Amphibalus, 150 Anastasius, St., 38 Andover Road, 89 Andrew, 166 Andrews, St., 21 Andrews, Bishop, 191 Anglia, 59 Anglo-Saxon, 114 Anne, 33