Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) : Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood . the present roads leading toIcklesham and Pett. The gable end of the building isstill standing. This hospital was for both brethren andsisters, and had, at its dissolution, a house and ten acres ofarable land within the town : and also rents payable out ofsome houses in Great Yarmouth. Swinden, in his Historyof Yarmouth, suggests that the first founders of GreatYarmouth were portsmen, and for several centuries after-wards came and resided there, became seised of l
Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) : Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood . the present roads leading toIcklesham and Pett. The gable end of the building isstill standing. This hospital was for both brethren andsisters, and had, at its dissolution, a house and ten acres ofarable land within the town : and also rents payable out ofsome houses in Great Yarmouth. Swinden, in his Historyof Yarmouth, suggests that the first founders of GreatYarmouth were portsmen, and for several centuries after-wards came and resided there, became seised of lands andtenements, and at their deaths, in memory of the placefrom whence they came, bequeathed some portion thereofto their countrymen. Among the annual rents payable tothe Cinque Ports out of lands and tenements in GreatYarmouth from time immemorial was one to the Hospitalof St. John of Winchelsea. St. Bartholomews Hospital was situated in the thirty-ninth quarter at the extreme south of the town, and closeto the New Gate, but no traces of it are now visible. Thetwo seem to have been united before the time of Philip ^. -V^. GUIDE TO RYE. I49 and Mary, and they existed after the dissolution of therehgious houses. Of the Preceptory of St. Anthony, nothing is known,except its seal, found in the town, on which St. Anthonyis figured, followed by his emblem, a pig. The New Gate. We go on through fields, away from any house, untilthe road drops down towards a valley, and you find yourselfbefore an ivy-clad ruin, once a gateway of the is the New Gate which was opened by treachery tothe French in 1380. Turner has painted it in the LiberStudiorum. Mr. Inderwick says: On a green spotbeyond the city wall, a short distance from the gate, rosethe Holy Rood of Winchelsea. Land travellers makingfor the only entrance that would admit them from theroad, could see the holy emblem long before they arrivedat the porticullissed gate, and it was equally visible from theships that lay in t
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