of five hundred pounds, and was to have a pair of silver-gilt basins, ornamented with double roses, which were probably given to Wykeham by Edward III, as a special mark of his favour.  So we take leave of this master builder and munificent bishop, whose motto “Manners makyth man” is known the world over.  The inscription on his tomb tells us of his works, but Wykeham needs no inscription so long as the stones of the Cathedral hold together, and his two fair colleges raise their buttressed walls beside the waters of the Isis and the Itchen.

[Illustration:  THE CLOISTERS, WINCHESTER COLLEGE]

Returning to the Butter Cross, the Piazza adjoining reminds one of the Butter Walk at Dartmouth, and the famous “Rows” of Chester.  It was used for many years as a market where the country folk brought their produce, being then known as the “Penthouse”.  The mints established on the site by Athelstan were noted for the excellence of the coinage made there.  In the Westgate Museum an old leaden box is shown which was discovered at Beauworth by a shepherd.  It was found to contain some six thousand silver pennies of the coinage of William I and Rufus.  In addition to its famous mints Winchester was the chief trading centre of this part of England during mediaeval days.  A great woollen trade was carried on with Flanders when the city became one of the “staple” towns, still commemorated by “Staple Gardens”, a narrow lane leading out of the north side of High Street, where the great warehouse for the storage of wool once stood.  A little below the Queen Anne Guildhall, but on the opposite side of the street, is St. John’s Hospital; while another old lane leading off from the main thoroughfare is Royal Oak Passage, at the junction of which with the street is the ancient house known as God-begot House, with some good timberwork and a fine gable.  “Jewry” Street recalls to our memory the early settlement of the Jews in Winchester, for the citizens seem to have been more kindly disposed towards this persecuted race than those of the majority of English cities at an early period in their history.  Richard of Devizes, in 1189, called Winchester the “Jerusalem of the Jews”, and, writing of the massacre and plunder of the Jews in London and other cities, said:  “Winchester alone, the people being prudent and circumspect and the city always acting mildly, spared its vermin”.  The Jews settled in Winchester between the years 1090 and 1290, landing at Southampton and making their way up the Itchen until they came in sight of the old capital of the kingdom.  Crossing the river, they entered the city by the East Gate, and finally chose as their abiding-place a site near the north walls, in a thoroughfare then known as “Scowrtenstrete”, Shoemakers’ Row.  The community soon could boast of a synagogue, and were the possessors of several schools.  At the bottom of the High Street are the Abbey Gardens, so called from their being on the site of an abbey founded by Ealhswith, King Alfred’s