. The Old Road . n the first century of their operations. This is an error, due to oTerlooking thefact that for the Saladin Tithe the Jew was taxed one-fourth and not one-tenth of hisgoods. The true figure should be about 25j per cent. But even that is astonishing forperhaps one per cent, of the population. It supposes an average Jewish fortunetwenty-five times larger than the average English one. 69 THE EXPLORATION north gate, the limit of that lane, was the starting-point of theOld Koad. The north gate has now disappeared. It lay just south ofthe grounds now known as North-Gate House. The de
. The Old Road . n the first century of their operations. This is an error, due to oTerlooking thefact that for the Saladin Tithe the Jew was taxed one-fourth and not one-tenth of hisgoods. The true figure should be about 25j per cent. But even that is astonishing forperhaps one per cent, of the population. It supposes an average Jewish fortunetwenty-five times larger than the average English one. 69 THE EXPLORATION north gate, the limit of that lane, was the starting-point of theOld Koad. The north gate has now disappeared. It lay just south ofthe grounds now known as North-Gate House. The deflectionof the street is comparatively modern; the original exit wasundoubtedly (as at Chichester and elsewhere) along the straightline of the Roman road. This passed near the site of thepresent house, and pointed towards the isolated tree whichmarks the northern edge of the garden. From this poiat it has been commonly imagined that theOld Road must have coincided with the modern Hyde Street, enSt^^ TheNorth Gate. Old Road WINCHESTER and have followed this line as far as the smithy at HeadbourneWorthy. Thence it has been supposed to branch off to OF THE ROAD From the church of that village onwards through MartyrsWorthy and Itchen Abbas no one questions but that themodern highway is identical with the Old Koad; but I thinkthe original track may be shown to have proceeded not alongthe modem street, but by an interior curve, following up theMonks Walk, passing under the modern railway embankmentnear the arch which is just north of the Itchen bridge, andmaking thence straight for Kings Worthy church, thus leavingHeadbourne Worthy on the left, and running as the thick lineruns in this sketch-map. The point evidently demands argument, and I will give thearguments upon one side and upon the other, so that the con-clusion may recommend itself to my readers. In favour of the first supposition there is this to be said,that the line through Headbourne Worthy carries the roa
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