. The New England magazine. plendid chantriesrest Angevin, Anglo-Norman, Lan-castrian and Tudor prelates, princesand statesmen, and persons no lessnotable, men whose deeds are insep-arable from their countrys annals andwhose memories are imperishable solong as history remains. Here then,as at Canterbury, suggestions cometo the student of history worth manyprinted pages, bygone days become asyesterday, and the personages ofwhom we heard and read when wewere children live and move and havea real being. It is interesting to see, as we readthe details of early English history, ofhow much importanc
. The New England magazine. plendid chantriesrest Angevin, Anglo-Norman, Lan-castrian and Tudor prelates, princesand statesmen, and persons no lessnotable, men whose deeds are insep-arable from their countrys annals andwhose memories are imperishable solong as history remains. Here then,as at Canterbury, suggestions cometo the student of history worth manyprinted pages, bygone days become asyesterday, and the personages ofwhom we heard and read when wewere children live and move and havea real being. It is interesting to see, as we readthe details of early English history, ofhow much importance the old townand the old cathedral of Winchesterwere. Under the Roman rule ofBritain, Winchester had little history,properly so called. The spade and thepick give us, to be sure, a few coinsof the third and fourth centuries; andhere and there have been found vasesand utensils and pieces of tessellatedpavements. Six Roman roads, also,which radiate from the city gates,show that Venta Belgarum, as the 34 WINCHESTER WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL. Romans called the town, was an im-portant centre of the imperial settlement, like other Romancamps, was in plan an oblong, rec-tangular camp, with the base to theeast. There were four gates namedfrom the cardinal points of the com-pass. Eastgate and Westgate werejoined by a broad thoroughfare, stillthe High Street of the city. At rightangles with this road ran a road fromNorthgate to Southgate, to the east ofwhich the greater part of the townlay. Of the four divisions of the city,those to the south of the High Streetwere the most important. The tri-bunals of law were in the upper part, onthe hill; and in the lower, in the val-ley, were the temples of the gods, thechief dwellings and the militaryheadquarters. So when the West-Saxon kings built their castle andpalace above and the church below,they only followed the example set bytheir Roman predecessors. From thefour gates of the city radiated sixstraight roads, leading to Lon
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