He cleaned his shovel, left it against the fence, picked up his Winchester, and started downstream.

In March 1219 he realised that he was dying, so he summoned his eldest son, also William, and his household knights, and left the Tower of London for his estate at Caversham in Berkshire, near Reading, where he called a meeting of the barons, Henry III, the papal legate Pandulf Masca, the royal justiciar ( Hubert de Burgh ), and Peter des Roches ( Bishop of Winchester and the young King's guardian ).

From left: 50 BMG, 300 Winchester Magnum | 300 Win Mag, 308 Winchester, 7. 62 × 39mm, 5. 56 × 45mm NATO, 22LR.

The coat of arms is quite complex, since it incorporates ( from left to right ) a symbol chosen by the founder, the arms of the See of Winchester, and the arms of Hugh Oldham.

There were three reasons given for Stigand's deposition: that he held the bishopric of Winchester in plurality with Canterbury ; that he not only occupied Canterbury after Robert of Jumièges fled but also seized Robert's pallium which was left behind ; and that he received his own pallium from Benedict X, an anti-pope.

This perception was encouraged by the above mentioned photograph of McCarty, in which he appears to be wearing a gun belt with a holster on his left side, but further examination revealed that as all Winchester Model 1873 rifles were made with the loading gate on the right side of the receiver, the " left-handed " photograph is in fact a mirror image.

Though the Winchester head remained in place, another one appeared at Jumièges ; he " must have clandestinely removed the head, or at least the greater part of it, and left his monks to venerate the empty or nearly empty capsa ".

Winchester hoped Williams would be able to complete various designs left unfinished by Ed Browning, including the Winchester. 30-06 M2 rifle.

Boys Playing ' Winchester Fives ' at Tonbridge School, note the buttress on the left hand wall. A further variation is Winchester Fives.

This left the unresolved issue of the route of the final section past Winchester.

Sarah Winchester left a will written in 13 sections, which she signed thirteen times.

The belongings in Winchester Mystery House were left to her niece, Mrs. Marian I. Marriott, who took what she wanted and auctioned the rest off.

He has left his steward in charge of the kingdom and seems to have no intention of returning to his capital city of Winchester ( in southern England, the old capital of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex ).

He was educated at Winchester College, and in 1669 entered Christ Church, Oxford, as a commoner, but left the university without a degree in the autumn of 1672.

Many were sold in. 44-40 Winchester Center Fire ( WCF ), introduced in 1878 to allow cross-compatibility with the Winchester ' 73 lever action rifle ; this model was called the " Colt Frontier Six-Shooter " which was etched and later roll-stamped on the left side of the barrel.

With General Pender at his side, Scales rode back to Virginia in an ambulance, and after being left at Winchester, he recovered enough from his wounds to be returned to service however, General Pender died from his wounds.

He left Winchester in 1686 for a course of foreign travel.

In fact, five scholars and perhaps one commoner left Winchester for Eton in 1443, probably in July, just before the election.

Shortly after, Winchester left Africa and returned to England eventually finding work at The Journal in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Charles was educated at Winchester College and Magdalene College, Cambridge ( which he left without a degree ).

At her funeral service, John White ( the Bishop of Winchester ) praised Mary: " She was a king's daughter ; she was a king's sister ; she was a king's wife.

Stephen agreed that, given the situation, he was prepared to release his subjects from their oath of fealty to him, and the clergy gathered again in Winchester after Easter to declare the Empress " Lady of England and Normandy " as a precursor to her coronation.

* 1153-The Treaty of Wallingford ( Treaty of Winchester, Treaty of Westminster ), effectively ends the civil war caused by a dispute between Empress Matilda and her cousin King Stephen of England over the English crown, in which Stephen recognises Matilda's son Henry of Anjou as his heir.

In November 1043 he rode to Winchester with his three leading earls, Leofric of Mercia, Godwin and Siward of Northumbria, to deprive her of her property, possibly because she was holding on to treasure which belonged to the king.

On a charter to the New Minster at Winchester, the names of Ælfthryth and her son Æthelred appear ahead of Edward's name.

He was supported by most of the barons and his brother, Henry, Bishop of Winchester, breaking his oath to defend her rights.

It was to Hampton Court that Queen Mary I ( Henry's eldest daughter ) retreated with King Philip II of Spain to spend her honeymoon, after their wedding at Winchester.

Clowes married Mary Winchester, the niece of William Winchester, in 1804 and had four daughters and four sons with her.

The clergy gathered again in Winchester after Easter to declare the Empress " Lady of England and Normandy " as a precursor to her coronation.

The Empress's position was transformed by her defeat at the rout of Winchester.

Matilda was using the royal castle in the city of Winchester as a base for her operations, but shortly afterwards Queen Matilda and William of Ypres then encircled the Angevin forces with their own army, reinforced with fresh troops from London.

There is little contemporary information for her life, but in a Winchester charter dated 939, she was the beneficiary of land at Droxford in Hampshire granted by her half-brother King Athelstan.

After the unsuccessful attempt to crown Matilda, those gathered at Winchester had to flee before Stephen's forces ; one of Matilda's chief supporters, her half-brother Robert of Gloucester, was captured.

Napton was included in the half that passed to his younger sister Margaret, and thereby to her husband Saer de Quincy who in 1207 was made Earl of Winchester.

In 1176 he was also made custodian of Queen Eleanor, who was confined to her quarters in Winchester castle.

Notable people from Bury St Edmunds include author Norah Lofts, who though actually born in Shipdham Norfolk, bases many of her stories in Baildon, the fictionalised Bury St Edmunds, artist Rose Mead, artist and printer Sybil Andrews, actors Bob Hoskins and Michael Maloney theatre director Sir Peter Hall, author Maria Lousie de la Ramé ( also known as Ouida ), Canadian journalist and author Richard Gwyn, cyclist James Moore, World War II Canadian general Guy Simonds, footballer Andy Marshall and the 18th-century landscape architect Humphry Repton, Bishop of Winchester and Lord High Chancellor Stephen Gardiner.

He was baptised at the private chapel of Windsor Castle on 17 May 1900, by Randall Thomas Davidson, Bishop of Winchester, and his godparents were: Queen Victoria ( his great-grandmother ); the German Emperor ( his cousin, for whom Prince Albert of Prussia stood proxy ); Princess Henry of Battenberg ( his paternal grandaunt ); the Duchess of Cumberland ( his paternal grandaunt, whose sister, his grandmother the Princess of Wales represented her ); Prince George of Greece ( his cousin, for whom Prince Henry's paternal grandfather the Prince of Wales stood proxy ); Princess Carl of Denmark ( his paternal aunt, for whom her sister Princess Victoria of Wales stood proxy ); Prince Alexander of Teck ( his maternal uncle, for whom Prince Henry's granduncle the Duke of Cambridge stood proxy ); and Field Marshal The Earl Roberts ( for whom General Sir Dighton Probyn stood proxy ).

According to legend, she was accused of adultery with Bishop Ælfwine of Winchester, but proved her innocence by walking barefoot unharmed over burning ploughshares.

Although this is disputed, popular belief holds that a Boston medium told Winchester that she had to leave her home in New Haven and travel West, where she must " build a home for yourself and for the spirits who have fallen from this terrible weapon, too.

The June 1937 issue of Modern Mechanix relates the story from then-current accounts as follows: " Winchester and the baby girl died suddenly and Mrs Winchester, stunned by the tragedy, fell into a coma so serious that physicians despaired of her life.

A first exception to this rule arose in an 1852 case by New York's highest court, Thomas v. Winchester, which held that mislabeling a poison as an innocuous herb, and then selling the mislabeled poison through a dealer who would be expected to resell it, put " human life in imminent danger.

* Chuck Hawk's articles on the Ruger # 1, the Harrington & Richardson 1871 Single Shot Rifles, New England Firearms Single Shot Rifles, and The Winchester / Browning Model 1885 High Wall Rifle.

Cnut and Emma of Normandy, from the Liber Vitae of the New Minster, Winchester ( 1031 ).

** Chihuicahui ( lived in SE Arizona in the Huachuca Mountains west of the San Pedro River, in the northwest along a line of today's Benson, Johnson, Willcox, and north along the San Simon River to east of SW New Mexico, controlled the southern Pinaleno, Winchester, Dos Cabezas, Chiricahua, Dragoon and Mule Mountains, southwestern local group )

The ceremonies are said to have been led by the then-Bishop of Sherborne, Wulfsige III, accompanied by a senior cleric whom the Passio calls Elsinus, sometimes identified with Ælfsige, the abbot of the New Minster, Winchester.

He was educated at Winchester and afterwards at New College, Oxford, where he was a scholar in 1607, and Fellow in 1609.

* City of Winchester, including the towns of Bishop's Waltham and New Alresford as well as Winchester

* Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, HarperPerennial, New York, 1998, hardback and trade paperback, ISBN 0-06-017596-6.

He was born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and moved to Winchester, Virginia as a youth.

* Simon Winchester, The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, ( 2001 ), New York: HarperCollins, ISBN 0-14-028039-1

Born in Canterbury, England to Agnes Sealy Vidal and Colonel Frederic Gosset, Gosset attended Winchester College before reading chemistry and mathematics at New College, Oxford.

The choice of Malmesbury over the New Minster in Winchester indicated that the king remained an outsider to the West Saxon court.

The town is bordered on the west by Canaan, Connecticut and North Canaan, Connecticut ; on the north by New Marlborough, Massachusetts and Sandisfield, Massachusetts ; on the east by Colebrook, Connecticut and Winchester, Connecticut ; and on the south by Goshen, Connecticut.

Warwick is bordered by Winchester and Richmond, New Hampshire, to the north, Royalston ( in Worcester County ) to the east, Orange to the south and southeast, Erving to the southwest, and Northfield to the west.

To shop for groceries and basic items, residents go either south to Orange and Athol, northwest to Winchester, New Hampshire, north to Keene, New Hampshire, northeast to Rindge, New Hampshire or east to Winchendon.

New College was founded in conjunction with Winchester College, which was envisaged as a feeder to the Oxford college, and the two institutions have striking architectural similarities: both were the work of master mason William Wynford.

Both Winchester College and New College were originally established for the education of priests, there being a shortage of properly educated clergy after the Black Death.

Admiring William of Wykeham's achievements in creating his twinned institutions, King Henry VI modelled the establishment of his own new colleges, King's College, Cambridge and Eton College, upon Wykeham's foundations of New College and Winchester College.

Indeed, the link that King's College, Cambridge and Eton College share is a direct copy of William of Wykeham's link between New College and Winchester College.

New College has formal ties with Winchester College, Eton College, and King's College, Cambridge dating back to 1444, a four-way relationship known as the Amicabilis Concordia.

Winchester made the news briefly in March 1989 when the Institute for the Study of American Wars ( ISAW ), a Delaware-based nonprofit organization, chose Winchester over competing sites in Oklahoma, Arizona, Pennsylvania and New Mexico for a proposed $ 150 million war museum complex.