. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. iment room (ground floor) contains charters, letters, andvolumes of supreme interest. The date of the oldest charter is about1180. Fords Hospital, which has a beautiful frontage and quadrangle oftimber-work, was founded as an almshouse by William Ford in windows are of nine and six lights, with diamond panes and carvedheadings. The upper story, with overhangings, is gabled, and hascarved barge-boards and hip-knobs. The front is decorated with panelwork and pilasters carved out of the beams. The in
. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. iment room (ground floor) contains charters, letters, andvolumes of supreme interest. The date of the oldest charter is about1180. Fords Hospital, which has a beautiful frontage and quadrangle oftimber-work, was founded as an almshouse by William Ford in windows are of nine and six lights, with diamond panes and carvedheadings. The upper story, with overhangings, is gabled, and hascarved barge-boards and hip-knobs. The front is decorated with panelwork and pilasters carved out of the beams. The inner court is oblong,with stories also overhanging, and at the end is a gable. 1 Palace Yard. Palace Yard was the house of the Hopkins family, who, in 1605,entertained Princess Elizabeth, afterwards Queen of Bohemia ; in 1687King James II ; and in 1688, Princess, afterwards Queen, Anne. It is afine timber quadrangle with ornamental lead work, and the banqueting-hall has a plaster ceiling of the early eighteenth century. 1 See Ribton Turner, Shake:pe ires Land, p. 129. i. Kindly lent by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Ltd. FORDS HOSPITAL, COVENTRY. i Annual Summer Meeting. 45 Stratford-upon-Avon. 1By W. S. Brassington, Stratford-upon-Avon appears three centuries before the NormanConquest as a place of some importance in Warwickshire. The nameindicates great antiquity, probably pre-Rornan; although no Romanremains of any importance have been found here. The river gravel,however, yields abundant evidence of ancient habitation. In the gravelpit at the corner of Loxley Lane a primitive hearth was found by thewriter, the remains include stones used for heating, fragments of pottery,baked earth, and the bones of the horse and the ox. A bone needle wasfound near the site of the hearth, and stone loom-weights have been dugup at Rowley on the opposite side of the river. The earliest charters give the name as follows : In 691 ^Et-stret-fordae, in 714 Straetforda, in 781 Stretf
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