Memorials of John Ray / edited by Edwin Lankester.

Date:
1846
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Credit: Memorials of John Ray / edited by Edwin Lankester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the house at which we put up. ‘The cathedral church is remarkable for nothing, except a preaching place or church in the south wing, and the bishop’s seat (in the choir) of stone. It is built of a red washy stone, which suffers much by the weather. In the consistory lies the body of the earl of Derby, his grandfather, wrapped up in lead and not imterred. Bishop Bridgeman hath a vault for a burymg place in one of the isles of the choir. By the bridge gate there is a fair square water-tower lately built, which serves a great part of the city with water. ‘The water is sucked up by suckers, like those of syringes, and stopped from running out again by valves, and forced up into pipes by the same syringe-stopples as the water is forced out of a syrmge, and valves to stop it from descending. At the top of the cistern there is a pipe to let the air out of the pipes. Friday, May the 16th, from Chester to Wrexham, and thence to the Molde, sixteen miles; by the way we saw a fair house of Sir John 'T'revor’s at Gresford, and an house of Mr. Wynne’s called the tower. Wrexham. is a very fair market town, the church steeple exceeding handsome, adorned with statues cut m stone; a great number of ‘poor people about the town, especially old women. ‘There is at the Molde a large fair church of very good free-stone; therein is a stone pedestal and a canopy, where, they say, stood a living or quick image. It is the custom here, as in other places in Wales, to strew green herbs, as rushes, flags, branches of box and flowers, on the graves of dead persons for one year, and then to cover them with a stone. Near the Molde, in the way to Kilken, baron Edwards* has an house. At Kilken, the river Allen runs under ground for a little space. The channel is full of stones, which I supposed lay loose to some depth without earth, and the water runs under them. ‘There is also a well which (they say) ebbs and flows in the winter time; but there was no such thing to be observed at the time of our being here. * Baron of the Exchequer of Chester.