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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    tern, I found Herba Paris | Paris quadrifolia, Livn., | and a kind of Driopteris, g. an Driopt. Tragi ? |Polypo- dium dryopteris, Linn.| At Gloucester we saw the college. Inthe cathedral are twelve little chapels. The pillars in the body of the church are great and bulky, the steeple part of the choir, into which the bell-ropes hang down. Of the wings of the church are made chapels. We saw here many antient monuments. Robert de Courtois, in the midst of the choir in wood. Lucius, the first christian king, lies as it were on a shelf. Edward II, a Saxon king, that either founded or was a great benefactor to this church ; also a fair monument of Sir Humphrey Bohun ; another of Mr. Abraham Black- leech, who had been lately a great benefactor to this cathedral; likewise a monument of Major-general Craw- ford, a Scotchman, slain at the walls of Hereford, fighting for the parliament, and divers others. We exactly mea- sured and surveyed the whispering-place, and took notice of the cloister, which is very large and handsome. We rode out to Lassington, where we found many of the star-stones. From Gloucester we went to Sodbury, and from thence to Alderly, where we found great plenty of the cockle and scallop-stones, but no Cornua ammonis. At Alderly, Judge Hales has an house. Thursday, June the 19th, we got to Bristol, where we saw the cathedral. In it are a few antient monuments, one of Sir John Newton, who took the king of Morocco prisoner. Here are also the tombs of several religious knights, and of some bishops ; one, of the first bishop of this church, who hath his mitre under his head like a pillow, and his ribs appear, that is, the bishop’s effigies is cut in stone like a skeleton, or a body extremely emaci- ated. There is also the tomb of one Vaughan, a knight. We took notice of the bowling-green, and the plain about it by the river-side. We saw also Ratcliff church, built by one Cannings. It is in the form of a cathedral, arched with stone, well gilded on the roof. In the church-yard is a fair stone cross, whereat are preached four sermons