Oxford topography : an essay / by Herbert Hurst.

  • Hurst, Herbert, 1833-1913.
Date:
1899
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    others, in 1437. Going onwards to the east, comes Stodeley’s entrie. In 1473 (ibid. p. 141, lvi.) is a demise, but without the usual east and west boundaries: The Prioress (Alianor) and the Convent of Stodeley lease to John Stokes Warden of All Souls a messuage called Stodeley’s Entrie situated in the high street of Oxford in the parish of St. Mary near the aforesaid College abutting upon the aforesaid street on the south and upon the tenement and soil of the said college on the north paying yearly thereout to the same convent two marks. Northwards up the entry here, it seems, would be the road to two interior plots, as they prove to be, but the documents about them are very few indeed. One of these plots was some land of the University leased by the Chancellor and Proctors in 1451 (V. p. 141, lv.) to the Warden and Fellows of All Souls; described as the whole ground of the University with garden in Catestreet in St. Mary’s parish between a tenement of Evesham on the north and a tenement of St. Mary’s on the south, for seven years, rent four shillings a year. The Evesham tenement must be south of Grandpont Hall, for that reached from Cat Street to Queen’s College garden. The part of the site remaining, on the east, includes the two strips between the first quadrangle and Drowda Hall. The one which adjoins Stodeley Entry has three titles—Marcham’s, Le Wynmille, and Redehous. In 1476 (ibid, lxi.), John Marcham, Chaplain, grants to Richard Mylet of Oxon a messuage in St. Mary’s parish in the High Street situated between All Souls College on the west and the Entry of the Prior and convent of St. Frideswyde on the east; which messuage was of old called Le Wynmille and now the Redehous. In a later demise, 1530 (ibid, lxv.), it is said to be situated between the messuage of All Souls on the west and the messuage belonging to St. Peter’s Church on the east part. In the margin of this, Wood adds: ‘ This tenement is that building on the east side of the Warden’s lodgings and ’tis the study belonging to the Warden.’ It was also known by the name Rose Inn. Drowda Hall, the next tenement, probably heads the list for variety of spelling; commencing with Drogheda, an Irish word not very easy for English throats, it took the forms Droozedayesehalle in 1294, Drowedes in 1375, Doghtur 1443, from which came Doughter, Droughter, Droghter, Drokeda 1241, Drosda, Drowda Drowdal, Dugtha, and Tredagh. As it paid a small rent to