A dissertation on ancient bridges and bridge chapels, and especially that ... edifice on Wakefield bridge, commonly ... called the chapel of Edward the fourth, Volume 7Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828 - 48 pages |
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Page 34 - ... office. For the Romans considered it as an execrable impiety to demolish the wooden bridge; which, we are told, was built without iron, and put together with pins of wood only, by the direction of some oracle. The stone bridge was built...
Page 42 - ... as to other criminals, or supposed criminals, where was there ever one who half so much deserved the axe or the halter, as that wretch who occasioned the murder of these holy saints, and who has left to posterity the character unique of having * spared no man in his anger, or woman in his lust ?' " After what has been advanced, it seems scarcely necessary to apprise the reader, that these religious edifices were not merely receptacles for devotional purposes, but for the rest — the refreshment...
Page 39 - that no man, of what estate or condition soever, shall be put out of land or tenement, nor taken, nor imprisoned, nor disherited, nor put to death, without being brought in answer by due process of the law«.
Page 39 - ... and the certainty of extortion. In the domains of every lord, a toll was to be paid in passing his bridge, or along his highway, or at his market.
Page 8 - The faire bridge of stone of 9. arches, under the which rennith the ryver of Calder. And on the est side of this bridge is a right goodly chapel of our Lady and 2.
Page 39 - ... trade, traffic, commerce, and the administration of justice, we see the reason why our ancestors chose this site in many instances for the foundation of a town's hall, an exchange, a guild, an hospital, or a prison. " Fourthly and lastly, we find them used to exhibit spectacles of a very different and shocking kind, I mean the heads of criminals, or supposed criminals, which were often placed upon spikes or poles on bridges, in order that they might be seen both by land and water. I say supposed...
Page 39 - ... to as coeval with that structure, and of which the last priest was Sir John Clarke, who pass them over with merely remarking that even in our nearest market town— the town of Leeds — this relick of an ancient usage has been seen within the memory of man. " Thirdly, viewed in connection with the trade, traffic, commerce, and the administration of justice, we see the reason why our ancestors chose this site in many instances for the foundation of a town's hall, an exchange, a guild, an hospital,...
Page 27 - ... books or writings of the sorts aforesaid, or any images of stone, timber, alabaster, or earth, graven, carved, or painted, which heretofore have been taken out of any church or chapel, or yet stand in any church or chapel, and do not before the last day of June next ensuing deface and destroy, or cause to be defaced and destroyed, the same images and every of them...
Page 29 - With respect to the mutilation of this chapel by the devastations of solne modern repairers or rather desolators, a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine in 1809, delivers himself in the following lively terms. " King Edward's chapel of which a previous correspondent speaks in such high and deserved terms of admiration, is alas ! a woeful instance of mutilation by these pretenders to architectural knowledge It is now (1809) cleared of its former occupiers (clothesmen and flax dressers) and is used as...
Page 8 - Crosse in rei memoriam. The commune saying is there that the Erle wold have taken ther a poore Woman's house for socour, and she for fere shet the Dore and strait the Erie was killid.