The Cathedral--Early History--Dagon--St. Swithun --Æthelwold--The Vocal Cross--Ordeal of Fire-- Walkelin--Renovation of the Cathedral--Civil War --Architecture--Nave--Isaak Walton--Relics and Monuments--De la Roche--Frescoes--Ethelmar-- Crypt 148 SIXTH DAY. The Grenadier--Cathedral Library and Museum--The Deanery--Pilgrim’s Hall--Precincts--Cheyney Court --Regulations of the Monastery--North side of the Cathedral--Early decay of the City--St. Peter’s Street --Middle Brooks--Old Houses 209 SEVENTH DAY. Southgate Street--St. Cross--Dr. Lewis--Regulations-- St. Catherine’s Hill 243 EIGHTH AND FOLLOWING DAYS. Ancient Britons--St. John’s Church--Magdalen Hospital --Punchbowl--Chilcombe--St. Peter’s Cheesehill-- Twyford--Monoliths--Brambridge Avenue--Otterbourne --Compton--“Oliver’s Battery”--Hursley--Tomb of Keble--Merdon Castle--Farley Mount--The Hampage Oak--Tichborne 262 INDEX 297 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE THE CATHEDRAL: WEST FRONT, WINCHESTER _Frontispiece_ WESTGATE 7 CASTLE HALL 29 THE EPITAPH OF DR HARPESFELDE 40 SPARSHOLT CHURCH 45 THE BUTTER CROSS AND PENTHOUSE 49 ROYAL OAK PASSAGE 51 THE OLD GUILDHALL 55 THE GUILDHALL 67 SOKE BRIDGE 77 TOWERS AND SPIRES OF WINCHESTER 79 KINGSGATE 90 THE PORTER’S LODGE AND CHEYNEY COURT 92 CHAMBER COURT 99 THE CLOISTERS 103 THE COLLEGE CHAPEL 111 CORNER OF A COLLEGE STUDY 115 THE TOWER OF THE COLLEGE CHAPEL FROM THE ITCHEN 121 CNUT AND EMMA (ÆLFGYFU) PLACING THE CROSS AT HYDE 133 WYKEHAM’S TOMB 167 A FRAGMENT OF THE CHAPTER HOUSE 169 IN THE NORTH TRANSEPT 177 KING JAMES 181 THE CHOIR FROM THE NAVE 187