Malcolm, James Peller: First Impressions Or Sketches from Art and Nature, Animate and Inanimate (London, 1807)

HEREFORD.

contribute to give the place conliderable conse*
quence. The streets are wide, and the houses
almost universally well built. Some of the an-
tient dwellings are grotesque, with the timbers
coloured black and the plaster white. The walls
and ditch are nearly perfect in many instances,
particularly near the lite os the castle ; and the
promenade on the Wye is extremely pleasant.
HEREFORD CATHEDRAL.
Before I present the reader with my observa-
tions, and particular description of this yet superb
CJathedral, I think it necessary to shew him what
it has been, in order that he may form a just
estimate of the changes which have occurred
lince the following account of it was compiled,
extracted from Harl. MS. 4046.
" On the West great window were the pictures
on the left hand of John Duke of Bedford, third
son to Henry IV. and after, in the 5th of Henry V.
he was by Parliament made regent os France, and
head of the weal-publick during the King's mino-
rity and abode in France. In the ist year of
Henry VI. he was made regent of France. He
most valiantly vanquished the Frenchmen in a
sea-fight at the mouth of the river Seine ; and
was slain in a battle on land, before Verneuil;
and