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

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HEREFORD CATHEDRAL.

lages that were bound to this observalion, by rl »
oath of Walter, the prior of Perlhore, which he

took the infringement of this custom.
The spire, from the upper C£ boivle" to the
battlements, is upon the measure 92, feet high ;
and from the bowle to the weather-cock about
ten feet more.
St. Anne's aile. It is built in length North and
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South, and runs srom the choir to the middle
steeple, towards the Chapter-house.
The Chapter-house is on the South side of the
Mmster ; the entrance into which is out os the
East part of the cloister called the Lady Arbour;
where it Hands, in a ten-squared form, between
the cross South aile of the Minster, answering to
the choir, and the palace of the biihop.
In the entrance, which is about 14 feet long,
from the cloister to the Chapter-house, and ten
feet broad, there is a ground tomb-stone, with
this circumscription :
ic Hie jacet D'n's Thomas de Birynton, quon-
dam subthesaurarius hujus eccl'ie, qui obi it
xii die mensisjunii, anno D'ni mill' ccc.lxxv."

made when the Abbey was burnt, 1223, and
their records lost. You perceive by a record of
Alansmoor how grievous the Dean and Chapter


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