THE ancient city of Winchester is one of great historical interest: it is a parliamentary and municipal borough, union, market and railway town, head of a county court district, and railway station, the capital of the county, and a polling place of the Northern division of Hampshire, 66½ miles from London, 12 north-east from Southampton, 29 from Salisbury, 37 from Chichester, 74 from Dorchester, 27 from Portsmouth, 34½ from Reading, and 19 from Basing- stoke, whence there is a branch line of railway connecting the South Western with the Great Western line at Reading and also another branch line from the former to Salisbury, thus communicating with Dorsetshire and the western counties with great facility. Here, as in a central point, the old post road from London to Southampton is met by six others from Guildford, Portsmouth, Poole, Salisbury, Andover, and Whitchurch.

The city is seated on the eastern declivity of a hill, sloping to the right bank of the Itchen, which, dividing here, circulates through the streets and meadows in several smaller streams, abounding in trout and other fish, below the city the river is navigable to Southampton, but the canal has nearly fallen into disuse. At the foot of the High street the river is spanned by a stone bridge.

The limits of the city buildings are no longer retained within the old Roman quadrangular boundary of flint walls : of its four gates, the west gate alone has survived the ravages of time and war. The spacious High street, about three quarters of a mile in length, is composed of substantial, well-built houses, many of them ancient, and is intersected
at right angles by several other streets, all well paved and lighted with gas, and supplied with water of the purest quality.

In the middle of the High street stands an ancient cross of stone, 43 feet high, and of considerable architectural beauty. The Pent House is an ancient piazza, extending
from the cross on the south side of the High street.

The city has sent two members to Parliament from the 23rd Edward I., but previous to the Reform Act it was a close borough, and still sends the same number : there are about 2,000 voters. The mayor is the returning officer.

The city is locally situated in Buddlesgate hundred, dio- cese, archdeaconry and rural deanery of Winchester, Winchester division, but, with its liberties, is under the separate jurisdiction of its own municipality, incorporated by Henry II.: under the Municipal Act this consists of six aldermen and eighteen councillors, from whom the mayor is chosen, who bold quarterly sessions for the trial of all offences not capital; and a County Court is held at the Guildhall once a month. The Bishop's court, formerly held twice a week in the cathedral close, had also jurisdiction for debt and damage over all places which had ever belonged to the see or convent of St. Swithin: in the days of Norman supremacy it was held under an oak, and is called Cheyney court, from chenef the French name for that tree. The assizes for the county are held in March and July, at the County Hall. The quarter sessions are also held there.

Winchester was originally called Caer Gwent, and like-wise Venta Belgarum, having, before the time of the Romans, been occupied by the Iberians, Britons and Belgians. Traces of its fortification by the Romans yet remain, and Roman relics are occasionally found. Two of their roads led from Winchester to Salisbury and Silchester. On the retirement of the Romans it became the metropolis of South Britain, subsequently of the kingdom of Wessex and of Egbert's dominion, from which time it was the frequent residence of the English and Norman monarchs, some of whom were crowned and others held parliaments here. The treasury and mint were also established here. In the reign of Athelstan, the famed triumph of Guy Earl of Warwick, over the Danish giant, Colbrand, in single combat, was achieved in the meadow to the north of the city, named from that occurrence Danemark Mede: the king is said to have witnessed the encounter from a turret in the north wall, still called Athelstan's chair: a representation of this battle is mentioned as existing on the city walls, and Colbrand's axe was preserved in the cathedral treasury till the reign of James I.

To the especial favour of the illustrious Alfred the city owed much of its greatness: here Emma, mother of Edward the Confessor, is said to have sustained the fiery ordeal. Under the cherishing protection of Henry I. it attained its highest pitch of prosperity; alike the seat of empire and focus of commerce, its buildings far exceeded their present limits, extending in the several directions to Worthy, Weeke, St. Cross, and St. Magdalen's hill: the city suffered much from a desolating fire in that reign, but more in the contest between Stephen and Matilda. Henry VIII. closed the long annals of its splendour by a week's entertainment within its walls of the Emperor Charles V., to whom the round table, called King Arthurs, but ascribed with more probability to Stephen, but which is now supposed to have borne originally a Mappa Mwndi, was exhibited, newly painted and repaired for the occasion, as an unquestionable monument of glorious antiquity.

At the general dissolution of monasteries this city was a prey to fresh devastations, which again were exceeded in the great civil war, when its royal and episcopal castles were both destroyed. The Great Plague, in the reign of Charles II., extended its terrific ravages to Winchester, and an, obelisk, on rising ground without the West Gate, marks the spot to which, with the most jealous precautions, the country people brought the provisions necessary to avert the additional calamity of famine, a vessel filled with water being stationed under the wall; to receive the money in payment. That monarch commenced the erection of a new palace, which, being left incomplete, was afterwards converted into a receptacle for prisoners of war, and a barrack capable of
holding 2,000 soldiers. Its name, the King's House, and many handsome mansions with which the temporary resort of the Court enriched the city, are existing proofs of that transient gleam of returning prosperity.

Winchester is supposed to be possessed of a glorious relic of former greatness, in the remains of Alfred, though the stone inscribed with his name, and supposed to have covered hia tomb, has been removed to the seat of P. H. Howard, esq.,of Corby Castle, Cumberland. The. Conqueror's survey, called Domeauay Book," was compiled, and various coinages have been struck, here; and hence issued the charter of Ethelwolf, confirming the tithes to the clergy. Wolvesey Castle, the ancient episcopal residence, built in 1138, by Henry de Blois, Bishop of Winchester, nephew to Henry I., was pleasantly situated on a branch of the Itchen, a short distance south-east of the cathedral: it remained entire until the civil wars of Charles I., when it shared the destruction of the royal castle : its picturesque ruins, principally those of the keep, and of the lofty and battlemented walls, are of considerable extent, nearly all clothed with ivy,
or concealed by trees and shrubs. Close to Wolvesey Castle stands the episcopal palace erected by Bishop Morley in 1684: it is now used as a school.

To Winchester Castle, the palace of so many kings, tradition assigns the age of King Arthur, but the later edifice was, without doubt, chiefly, if not entirely, of Norman, erection: it was dismantled by Cromwell: the hall, which alone escaped utter demolition, is the present County Hall: it is a fine building, 110 feet in length by 45 in breadth, the roof supported by elegant Gothic arches, springing from marble pillars: at the west end is suspended the famous round table, 18 feet in diameter, and inscribed in ancient characters with the names of Arthur's knights : the hall has been completely restored and decorated, and commodious courts, in lieu of those for a long time enclosed in it, have been added at the east, for the transaction of the magisterial, criminal and nisi prius business of the county.

St. Katherine's, or College Hill, a singular peninsulated elevation, distinguished by a clump of trees, separated from the meadows of St. Cross by several branches of the river, is supposed to have been a Roman fortification, communicating with the Roman road to Porchester. From a hill on the other side, called Oliver's Battery, Cromwell bombarded the city, and his works may still be traced.

Hyde Abbey, founded under the will of King Alfred, originally stood within the cathedral precincts, between that edifice and the High street, hut was removed, about a century before the Conquest, to Hyde, on the north side of the city: within its walls were the tombs of Alfred, and those of several other Saxon princes. The abbey was destroyed soon after the Reformation, and its only remains are the precinct walls and foundations of the church: its ruins supplied materials towards the erection of many adjacent buildings, the tower of St. Bartholomew's church is supposed to be wholly composed of them.

Many other monastic institutions disappeared at the general dissolution. Of St. Mary's Abbey, founded by Alswitha, Alfred's queen, for her own widowed retirement, all vestiges are swept away.

The monument of past ages, far exceeding all others within this city in interest and importance, is its cathedral, in favour of which some writers contend for an antiquity ascending to the second century of Christianity: it is clearly authenticated, however, that one fabric was completed in the year 648, dedicated to St. Peter and Paul, and described as of great extent and magnificence : it was rebuilt, probably, from the foundation, by St. Ethelwold, then by Bishop Walkelyn, in 1093, when, by a new dedication, St. Swithin was included among its patron saints, and his corpse was exhumed from the churchyard to be placed within the sacred edifice, this removal being delayed by violent rains, gave rise to the adage, that whenever rain falls on his festival
(July 15th), it will continue for forty successive days. The large massive structure, with its lantern tower, possesses little exterior attraction beyond its venerable antiquity, and
beautiful west front, erected by Edyngton, with the first window on the north and south side; the remainder of nave, modelled only by William of Wykeham; but the length, the
grandeur of design, and the exquisite beauty of detail of the interior, amply atone for any outward deficiency : it exhibits the usual form of a cross, and is one of the largest of English cathedrals, being 565 feet in length from east to west, the transepts 186 feet, breadth 87, and height 76. The world cannot produce specimens of sculpture more beautiful than the stone altar-screen, erected by Bishop Fox, and some of the numerous monumental chantries which surround the choir: a thorough repair of the whole cathedral, which occupied sixteen years, was completed in 1828. The cathedral contains monuments of the following Bishops of Winchester, viz.: Peter de Rupibus (06. 1233); Ethelmar de Valence (ob. 1261), whose heart only is buried here; William de Edindon (06. 1366); William of Wykeham (06. 1404), founder of the Colleges of St. Mary Winton, Winchester and Oxford; Cardinal Beaufort, son of King Edward III. (06.1447); William Waynflete (06. 1486), founder of Magdalen College, Oxford; Richard Fox (1528) and Stephen Gardiner (06. 1555); in addition is a coped marble tomb, attributed to King William Rufus (06. 1100); an inscribed stone to Richard II., son of King William I. (06. 1080) ; a crosslegged effigy in armour of Sir Arnold de Gavaston, father of Piers de Gavaston (06. 1302); a figure in bronze to Richard Weston, K.&., Earl of Portland (06. 1635); and black marble slab, with inscription, to Izaak Walton (06. 1683). Recently an oak screen has been erected at west end of choir to the memory of Bishop Wilberforce and Dean Garnier; it is most beautiful and chaste, and designed by Sir Gilbert Scott. A cenotaph is about to be placed to the memory of Bishop Sumner.

The city comprises the following parishes :—St. Bartholomew Hyde living is a vicarage, value £250, with residence, in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor, and held by the Rev. Charles Sloggett, M.A., of Christ's College, Cambridge. The register dates from 1563.

St. Lawrence living is a rectory, yearly value £139, without residence, in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor, and held by the Rev. Henry Manning Richards, M.A., of Christ's Church, Oxford. The register dates from 1760, those previous having been lost.

St. Peter Cheesehill is a rectory, yearly value £185, with residence, in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor, and held by the Rev. Michael John Mayors, M.A., of the University of
Bonn on the Rhine.

St. Swithun is a rectory, yearly value £85, with residence,

 in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor, and held by the Rev. Alfred James Lowth, M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford. The register dates from the year 1562.

St. John's is a vicarage, yearly value £230, in the patronage of the Bishop of Winchester, and held by the Rev. Henry Compton Dickins, M.A., Fellow of New College, Oxford.
The register dates from the year 1578.

St. Maurice, St. Mary Kalendar, and St. Peter Cole- brook (united rectories), yearly value £260, in the patronage of the Bishop of Winchester, and held by the Rev. Henry Haigh, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge. The register dates from the year 1576.

St. Michael is a rectory, yearly value £300, with residence, in the patronage of the Bishop of Winchester, and held by the Rev. John William Marsh, M.A., of Wadham College,
Oxford. The register dates from the year 1632.

St. Thomas and Clement. The living is a rectory, yearly value £300, with residence, in the patronage of the Bishop of Winchester, and held by the Rev. Robert Fender Hutcbi-
son, M.A., of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The register dates from the year 1678.

WINNALL. Church of St. Martin. The living is a rectory, value £170? ii the patronage of the Bishop of Winchester, and held by the Rev. William Menzies, M.A.,  of Queens' College, Cambridge. The register dates from the year 1680.

Bishop Morley's College, Close, for ten widows of clergymen:—Trustees, the Dean and Chapter of Winchester; chaplain, the Rev. Henry Wray, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge.

St. Faith, Hospital of St. Cross, yearly value £250, with residence, in the patronage of the Bishop of Winchester, and held by the Rev. William Gerrard Andrewes, M.A.,OI Hert-
ford College, Oxford, master and chaplain. The register dates from the year 1676.

Holy Trinity is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1855 from the civil parishes of St. Mary Kalendar and St. Maurice. The church, on the north walls, is in the Gothic style: the seats are principally free. The living is a rectory, yearly value £210, in the gift of the Rev. G. A. Seymour, M.A., and the Bishop alternately, and held by the Rev. George Augustus Seymour, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge. 

Christ Church is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1861 from the civil parish of St. Faith ; the church, built in 1860, is in the Gothic style. The register dates from the year 1861.
The living is a vicarage, yearly value £350, with residence, in the gift of Simeon's trustees, and held by the Rev. Alexander Baring-Gould, of Caius College, Cambridge.

St. Peter's Roman Catholic chapel, in the Gothic style, is situate in St. Peter's street. Dissenting places of worship are a Gothic Congregational church, in Jewry street, a
Wesleyan Chapel, in the same style, in St. Peter street, chapels for the Primitive Methodists and United Free Methodists in Parchment street, and Baptist chapels on
Silver hill and at City road. The Cemetery, in the south- west part of the suburbs, on rising ground, contains 7 acres, and has two mortuary chapels.

The College, or Public Grammar school, the munificent foundation of William of Wykeham, consists of a warden, six fellows, one head master, one second master, nine house masters, several assistant masters, tutors and extra masters, three chaplains, seventy scholars, and sixteen choristers. The school still occupies the original buildings, which wear a very venerable aspect, and consist of two spacious quadrangles, adorned with sculpture: the inner one is of a uniform and elegant style of architecture: the hall and chapel occupy its south side : extending from the latter, southwards, are the cloisters, 132 feet square; the school-room is a plain brick building (built in 1680); over its door is a fine bronze statue of the founder. The scholarships are open to the competition of all boys who have reached their tenth and. not passed their fourteenth birthday : an examination, graduated in difficulty according to the age of the candidates, is held at the College annually during' the month of July, notice of which is given in the public papers in March or April preceding: the names of the best of the candidates are arranged upon a roll, but only so many of those as are required to supply the vacancies that may occur during the ensuing year are admitted scholars, and in the order in which the names stand upon the roll: the candidates are examined in elementary religious knowledge, English dictation, arithmetic, Latin composition (verse and prose), construing and parsing in Greek and Latin : the average number of vacancies is 14, and of competitors nearly 150. Boys called " Commoners" are also admitted into the school for education, but must be resident in the house of one of the privileged tutors. There
are thirty scholarships at New College, Oxford, open to all boys alike who have received their education at the school, whether as scholars or commoners. Amongst the great public schools for the training of English youth, Winchester College holds a high rank in general estimation; and many of our greatest poets, divines, and statesmen have here
received their education.

The city was constituted a guild under royal protection in the ninth century, 100 years earlier than any other on record. It was formerly the seat of the wool staple, and carried on extensive manufactures in that material; its trade is now chiefly confined to what arises from its advantageous position in the centre of the county, agriculture, and the transaction of all the county business.

The Guildhall, opened May 14th, 1873, by Lord Selborne, is a very handsome building, in the Geometric Gothic style; the total length is 150 feet, and height 53 feet, with a central tower, the height of which to the top of the vane is 112 feet: the material of the facade is of Bath stone, and the erection is enlivened by the use of red Mansfield stone, Portland and York stone are also occasionally introduced: the Guildhall contains offices for the mayor, town clerk, and town surveyor, a very handsome large assembly room, session hall, magistrates' room, committee room, and public library and museum, police station, and volunteer armoury ; the total cost of the building exceeded £l6,000; Messrs. Jeffery and Skiller were the architects, and Messrs. Joseph Bull and Sons the builders.

The Market-house, in High street, is a brick building, and the markets are held on Wednesday and Saturday, the latter the principal for agricultural produce. The fairs are held on the first Monday in Lent, and the 23rd and 24th October; St. Magdalen's (now neglected), on the 2nd August; and St. Giles's, on the 12th September, for cheese, now all but extinct. It was at one period the largest fair in England, and extended to 16 days, during which time no business was allowed to be transacted elsewhere within 7 leagues of the hill; it was held on St. Gileses Hill, and formed a kind of temporary city, .entirely mercantile, whole streets being appropriated to particular commodities.

The corn market is held on Saturdays at the Corn Ex- change, in Jewry street, which is a very handsome and commodious building. St. John's are convenient rooms for concerts and balls, of freq   uent occurrence in the winter months. The city possesses, at the Guildhall, a public library and a museum.

The Mechanics' Institution was formed in 1835, and now possesses a handsome building in the square; but its numbers have outgrown the accommodation of the lecture hall, and lectures are now mostly given in the assembly room of the new Guildhall; it has a library of 5,000 volumes, and daily and evening reading room, exceedingly well supplied with newspapers, periodicals, reviews, &c.

The Winchester Union comprises the following parishes under the Poor Law Amendment Act :—Avington, Bishop Morley's College, Bishop Stoke, Chilcomb, Close of Winchester, College Mill, College Wharf, Compton, Crawley, East Stratton, Easton, Headbourne Worthy, Hunton, Itchin Abbas, King's Worthy, Littleton, Martyr Worthy, Milland, Micheldever, Morestead, Owslebury, St. Bartho- lomew Hyde, St. Cross Hospital Precinct, St. Cross Hill, 8t. Faith, St. John. St. Lawrence, St. Mary Kalendar, St. Maurice, St. Michael, St. Peter Cheesehill, St. Peter Colebrook, St. Swithin, St. Thomas, Sparsholt, Stoke Charity, The Weirs, Twyford. Weeke, Winchester College and St. Mary College, Winnall, Wolvesey and Wonston.  The Winchester County Court district comprises the following places :—Abbotstone', Allbrook; New Alresford; Old Alresford, including Fobdown and Lanham; Ampfield ; Avington ; Abbots Worthy, Bisbopstoke, including Fair Oak, Horton Heath, Knowie Hill, Quoblye and Stroudwood, Blackdown ; Beauworth, including Milburys; Bighton; Bishop's Sutton , Bramdean; Baddesley North, including Fern Hill, Fryen Hill, Ram Alley, Rownhames ; Sion*s Hill; Brown Candover, including Totford; Boyatt, Chandler's Ford; Chilton Candover, Chilcomb, Cheriton, including Longwood Dean and Lane End; Compton, Crawley, including Norwood, Golden Common; Easton, including Haropage and Matterley Farm ; East Stratton; Parley Chamberlayne; Godsfield; Headbourne Worthy; Hunton; Highbridge; Hinton Ampner; Hursley, including Binstead, Cranbury, Deluge Cross, Saddle Hill, Merdon, Ratlake Silkstead, SIackstead,and Standon; Harmsworth ; Itchen Abbas; Itchin Stoke; King's Worthy; Kilmiston,; Lainstone; Littleton; Martyr Worthy, including Chilland; Milland ; Micheldever, including BIackwood and Railway Station; Marwell, including Preshaw, Rose Hill, Roughay; and Woodlocks Down; Morestead; No Man's Land; Northington; Otterbourne; Ovington, including Lovington. and
Yavington; Owlesbury, including Bay bridge, Fisher's Pond, Green Hill, Hensting, Longwood Warren, and Whiteflood; Pitt; Ropley, including Oakham, Rookswood, Swelling Hill. and Woodside Farm ; Sparsholt, including Crabwood, Dean, and Wesley ; St. Cross ; Stoke Charity ; Sutton Scotney; Swarraton; Shawford; Tichbome; Tisted (West); Twyford, including Brambridge and Hazeley; West Stratton; Winchester; Week ; Weston Colley; Winnall; and Wonston.

A County Gaol and House of Correction, together with County Police Station and offices, stand on West Hill.without the west gate, but partly within the borough.

The Barracks stand in a commanding position at the west aide of the city, and have accommodation for 2,000 infantry, officers' quarters, separate barracks for married soldiers, a hospital, large school room, and gymnasium.

Races are held annually upon some extensive downs, about three miles north-west of the town.

The Royal Hants County Hospital, founded 1736, was the earliest provincial one in the kingdom ; the annual income from endowments is about £900, and from subscriptions, etc., about £4,000. The new building, one of the finest of its kind, from plans by Mr. Butterfield, at a cost of £30,000, is situated in the Romsey road.

Christ's Hospital, founded 1586 by James Symons, with an endowment of £420 annually, maintains eight unmarried men above 50 years of age, and maintains and educates four poor boys, assisting them at college by two exhibitions of £10 a year for fourty years, and for such as do not succeed to these, apprentice fees of £30 are provided and £5 for clothing, the income is £800.

The Hospital of St. Cross, originally built and endowed in 1136 by Henry de Blois, the brother of King Stephen, was very much enlarged by Cardinal Beaufort', the " AImshouse of Noble Poverty," which he added to the existing hospital, was intended for a warden, 2 priests, 35 brethren, and 3 sisters; at present this ancient institution consists of the master and 13 brethren only, of De Blois, original foundation, with a porter, cook, and 25 out-pensioners: the income is about £2,000 yearly ; it is managed under a provisional scheme of the Court of Chancery, but, when its revenues admit, it is in contemplation to revive Cardinal Beaufort's larger design; its buildings are still extensive, and entered
by a towered gateway, the handsome cruciform chapel, which is a very interesting specimen of the Transition period from Norman to Early-Pointed architecture, is used for the daily service of the brethren, and, on Sundays, serves as a parish church for the inhabitants of St. Faith.

Part of the ancient hospital of St. John, founded in 934, affords an asylum for 46 poor persons, the remainder has been converted to other uses, its hall serving for public meetings, and its chapel dedicated to St. John, wherein public worship is performed as in the parish churches; the income is about £1,800. Here are other almshouses: one erected by Bishop Morley in 1673 for the widows of clergymen of the dioceses of Winchester and Worcester, well endowed , it is a pleasant building with lawn and flower garden in front, on the north side of the cathedral yard. Beside the above about £500 yearly from various charities is distributed in money and kind.

Among the seats around Winchester are Abbots Barton, Ampfield, Cranbury Park, Crawley, and Brambridge, Twyford and Wyke Houses, Hursley Park, and Shawford; Avington Park, Stratton Park, and Worthy Park. Winchester gives the title of Marquis to the Paulet family.  The population of the municipal and parliamentary borough in 1871 was 16,366.

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.

William Barrow Simonds, esq. Abbots Barton, Winchester; & 18 Sussex place. Regent's park n.w. & Cariton & Junior Cariton clubs, London s.w

Arthur Robert Naghten, esq. Blighmont, near Southampton; & Cariton, United University & St. Stephen's clubs, London s.w
.Returning Officer, The Mayor

CITY MAGISTRATES.

RECORDER, Archibald John Stephens, Q.c., LL.D
The Mayor & ex-Mayor Thos. Hitchcock, M.D. Wyke
W. W. Bulpett, High street Arthur Paul, Newburgh villa
G. W. Johnson,  London Fred. Morshead, Soutbgate road
Chas. Wright, Croydon 
W.B.Simonds, M.P. Abbots Robert P. Forder, Kingsgate street

Barton 
Thomas Gunner, The Lea C. Fielder, Bar end
Colonel Nicoll, West hill
Magistrates' Clerk, Fred. Bames, High street

CORPORATION.
MAYOR, Chariea Fielder
HIGH STEWARD, Right Hon. Viscount Eversley

ALDERMEN.

Robert Poulsome Forder 
Sharp St. John Butt
Charles Fielder 
William Bud den
Harry William Kelsey 
Robert Underwood

COUNCILLORS.
St. Thomas Ward.

James Pamplin 
Jacob Jacob
Frederick Morshead 
Ed. Douglas Godwin
Charles Warner 
Arthur Rich

St. Maurice Ward,

Henry Warren, 
Thomas Stopher, jun
John Jones 
John Spencer
Henry Goodall 
Thomas Laurie

St, John Ward.

J. T. Clifton 
Cornelius John Drew
William Drake Forder 
William Colson
Richard Moss
Arthur Angell 


CITY OFFICERS.

Town Clerk § Clerk of the Peace, Walter Bailey, 38

Jewry street; & city offices, Guildhall
Treasurer, W. W. Bulpett, High street
Assessors for Revising Burgess List, Charles Richard Coltherup; Houghton Purchase
Coroner; J. Moore Todd, Castle hill
Deputy Coroner, Henry White, West End terrace
Medical Officer of Health, T. C. Langdon, P.R.C.S. Jewry street

DIOCESE OF WINCHESTER.

Bishop, The Right Rev. Edward Harold Browne, D.D. Winchester house, St. James's square, London

Bishop's Chaplains, Very Rev. J. S. Howson, D.D.; Rev.
Charles Gray, M.A.; Rev. P. Carlyon, M.A.; Ven. J.
Hardie, M.A.; Rev. S. G. Phear, B.D.; Rev. S. Blackall,
M.A.; Rev. F. Carlyon, M.A. & F. A. Hort, M.A

Bishops Secretaries, Messrs. Lee & Boulton
Archdeacons, Ven. Philip Jacob. M.A. Winchester; Rt.
Rev. J. S. Utterton. M.A. Surrey ; Rt. Rev. F. T. McDougall, D.C.L. Isle of Wight
Chancellor of the Diocese, Charles Sumner, M.A
Surrogates, Rev. W. N. Hooper, M.A. Hyde street;
Rev. Alfred James Lowth, M.A. Kingsgate street. 
Rev. Robert Fender Hutchison, M.A. Clifton road; 
Rev. Charles Wickham, M.A. Compton rectory
Apparitor, John Higgate, 25 Edgar road

Consistory Court.
Judge, Charlea Sumner, M.A
-Deputy Judge, Rev. W. N. Hooper, M.A
Registrar, Brownlow North
Deputy Registrar, Charles Wooldridge

Archdeacon's Court.
Archdeacon, Ven. Philip Jacob, M.A
Registrar 8y Notary Public, F. Bowker

THE CATHEDRAL.

Times of service—On Sundays 8.30 & 11 morning, & 3.30
afternoon; on other days at 10 morning & 4 afternoon,
Additional service for the military in the garrison on
Sundays at 9.30 a.m. Second & last Sundays in every
month, Holy Communion at 8 a.m.; Holy Communion
every Sunday at 11 a.m

Dean, The Very Rev. John Bramston, Deanery, Winchester
Canons,Ven. Philip Jacob, M.A.;
Rev. Thomas Woodrooffe,M.A. ; 
Rev. William Carus, M.A. ; 
The Rt. Rev. theBishop Suffragan of Guildford J. S. Utterton, M.A.;
Rt. Rev. F. T. McDougall, D.C.L

Minor Canons, Rev. H. Wray, M.A.; Rev. G. Beckwith,
M.A. ; Rev. J. G. Crowdy, M.A. ; 
Rev. J. E. Gibson, M.A. ;
Rev. W. N. Hooper, M.A
Precentor §• Librarian, Rev. H. Wray, M.A
Organist ^ Master of Choristers, G. B. Arnold, Mua. Doc
Sub-Sacrist §• Sub-Librarian, J. Higgate
Lay Vicars, A. Conduit, P. Cross, J. Pbillips, W. Pimlott,
R. D. Newby, M. Robinson, E. C. Lister, W. V. South-
cote, W. Alden
Supernumerary Lay Vicars, Henry Warren, George Ings

& Humphery Searle
Lay Clerks, J. Hig-gate & H. Pottle
Vergers, W. Bond & R. Mountford
Deputy Steward §• Chapter Clerk, F. Bowker, St. Peter's street
Surveyor, John Colson, St. Swithin's street
Land Agent, John Gill Comely, Southgate road
Porter of the Close, James Ellard, Lodge