Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Legend Of The Introduction Of Masons Into England.
a Avide , deep , and lofty wall the bridge which Aegelfled , queen of the Mercians , had built during the reign of her brother Eadward the elder , on the western bank of the river Severn , in a place galled in the Saxon tongue , Brycge . " * Other fortifications were erected by the
same earl , and in some instances the work at the walls and towers were carried on night and day . f This chronicle ends on 6 th December , 1117 ; and in the first continuation , which commences with the following year , there is nothing definite mentioned with regard to building . Castles , cities , forts , & c ,
are " erected . " Permission is given by the king , in 1126 , for the erection at the castle at Rochester , " to make in the same castle a fortification or tower of what kind soever they pleased "—i . e . the Church and Archbishop of Canterbury to whom the custody of the castle was granted . ^ London , Hereford , Nottingham , & c , are burnt .
Soldiers are , by burning timber in the moat , smoked out of Shrewsbury Castle like rats out of a hole . Rogei' , Bishop of Salisbury , is called " a mighty builder of castles , walls and houses ; " and in 1140 "the magnificent house of the Earl of Gloucester , and everything in its vicinity " is burnt when the king invades Tewkesbury .
The second continuation of the Chronicle of Florence of Worcester commences with the year 1152 , and like the former one , contains but few records useful for the present notes .
On the 28 th January the tower of the church of St . Mary-at-Bow fell , and crushed to death numbers who were in the church at the time . § The great tower of the Church of Norwich was , on the 10 th August , 1272 , || " struck by a thunderbolt on the north side with such violence that some of the stones were torn away and carried with
great force to a considerable distance . " On the following day , during a riot against the monks , the mob set fire to the Priory in several places , and reduced the whole of it to ashes , " together with the church , although it was built of stone . " In 1279 ^ f an examination was made" with regard to clipping and
making base coin . Jews and Christians were hanged and some banished . The commissioners to enquire into the matter came to St . Edmunds , " and gave final judgment in the Guildhall on the goldsmiths ( aurifabris ) of the town , and others were indicted , " etc , —apud la Gildhalle justitiam ulterius tcnuerunt . In 1281 ** the Gild of Dusze in the town of St . Edmunds was taxed .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Legend Of The Introduction Of Masons Into England.
a Avide , deep , and lofty wall the bridge which Aegelfled , queen of the Mercians , had built during the reign of her brother Eadward the elder , on the western bank of the river Severn , in a place galled in the Saxon tongue , Brycge . " * Other fortifications were erected by the
same earl , and in some instances the work at the walls and towers were carried on night and day . f This chronicle ends on 6 th December , 1117 ; and in the first continuation , which commences with the following year , there is nothing definite mentioned with regard to building . Castles , cities , forts , & c ,
are " erected . " Permission is given by the king , in 1126 , for the erection at the castle at Rochester , " to make in the same castle a fortification or tower of what kind soever they pleased "—i . e . the Church and Archbishop of Canterbury to whom the custody of the castle was granted . ^ London , Hereford , Nottingham , & c , are burnt .
Soldiers are , by burning timber in the moat , smoked out of Shrewsbury Castle like rats out of a hole . Rogei' , Bishop of Salisbury , is called " a mighty builder of castles , walls and houses ; " and in 1140 "the magnificent house of the Earl of Gloucester , and everything in its vicinity " is burnt when the king invades Tewkesbury .
The second continuation of the Chronicle of Florence of Worcester commences with the year 1152 , and like the former one , contains but few records useful for the present notes .
On the 28 th January the tower of the church of St . Mary-at-Bow fell , and crushed to death numbers who were in the church at the time . § The great tower of the Church of Norwich was , on the 10 th August , 1272 , || " struck by a thunderbolt on the north side with such violence that some of the stones were torn away and carried with
great force to a considerable distance . " On the following day , during a riot against the monks , the mob set fire to the Priory in several places , and reduced the whole of it to ashes , " together with the church , although it was built of stone . " In 1279 ^ f an examination was made" with regard to clipping and
making base coin . Jews and Christians were hanged and some banished . The commissioners to enquire into the matter came to St . Edmunds , " and gave final judgment in the Guildhall on the goldsmiths ( aurifabris ) of the town , and others were indicted , " etc , —apud la Gildhalle justitiam ulterius tcnuerunt . In 1281 ** the Gild of Dusze in the town of St . Edmunds was taxed .