. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. another remnant ofthe priory, it consists of a pointed arch in tolerable preservation. In St. Saviours church-yard, is a Free Grammar at the charge of the parish, by authority of queen Eliza-beth, in 1562. The school-house was burned down in 1676, butrebuilt in a handsome style. It is of brick, two stories in height,with a door in the middle of the ground floor, covered with a scrollcanopy so common in houses of the latter end of the seventeenthcentury. On a stone tablet over the south gate is t
. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. another remnant ofthe priory, it consists of a pointed arch in tolerable preservation. In St. Saviours church-yard, is a Free Grammar at the charge of the parish, by authority of queen Eliza-beth, in 1562. The school-house was burned down in 1676, butrebuilt in a handsome style. It is of brick, two stories in height,with a door in the middle of the ground floor, covered with a scrollcanopy so common in houses of the latter end of the seventeenthcentury. On a stone tablet over the south gate is the following inscrip-tion :— Libera Schola Grammaticalis parochianorum Sancti Salvatoris in Southwarkein Com. Surrie, Anno Quarto Reginse Elizabeth*. It is endowed for a master and usher, and is free for such poorchildren as are natives of this parish. Adjoining is a free Englishschool, founded by Mrs. Dorothy Applebee, about 1681, for thirtypoor boys of this parish, to be instructed in reading, writing, andarithmetic. Contiguous to the priory of St. Mary Overy, formerly stood. Winchester town residence of the prelates of that see. It was erectedabout the year 1107, by bishop Giffard, and was one of the mostmagnificent structures in the city or suburbs of London, having apark or domain of 60 or 70 acres. In the 27th of Edward I. 1299,John de Pontissara, a bishop, who was put in by the pope of hisown authority, aliened to the prior and convent of St. Swithin, inWinton, certain houses, with a garden, &c. contiguous to his parkhere, which the bishop had of the gift of William Wyselham, heldof the king by the service of five knights fees, of the value of31s. 3^d.* This became afterwards the house of the bishops of* Escheat 27 Edw. I, n. 119. HISTORY OF LONDON. 611 Rochester. It continued to be the abode of his successors till thebeginning of the seventeenth century, when it was forsaken for themore agreeable residence at Chelsea lately destroyed. In 1642, the parliament
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