A Short History of Wallingford, Ancient, Mediæval, And Modern. to Which is Added Rambles in the Neighbourhood
A Short History of Wallingford, Ancient, Mediæval, And Modern. to Which is Added Rambles in the Neighbourhood
Hedges, John Kirby. [from Old Catalog]
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Mary's Chapel, which is annexed to it, was built, we are told, by John of Eastbury about the year 1360. He was evidently a great man in the place, a large territorial proprietor, and probably the sculptured work in the chapel archway of men blowing horns and dogs chasing a hare, and also of fish, in contrast with the caricatures in the same archway of portly monks, mitred abbots, and the figure of a woman and a fool or jester, was intended to show how greatly the love of the chase and country p...ursuits were to he preferred to the rigid solitude Digitized by VjOOQIC 128 A SHOET HISTOEY OF WALLINGFOED. and sombre life of the Wallingford monks, whom the ludicrous figures are supposed to represent. Cardinal Wolsey obtained the pope's bull for dissolving this and other small monasteries, and had their lands bestowed upon him by the king, 20 Henry VIII., with the intent that he should settle the same on the new college ^Christchurch) which he was about to build at Oxford, m the ancient Priory of St.
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