Barbers Picturesque Illustrations of the Isle of Wight Comprising Views of Ev
Barbers Picturesque Illustrations of the Isle of Wight Comprising Views of Ev
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As the eye ranges to the north and west, the New Forest, Southampton Water, Portsdown Hill, the Sussex hills, and Beachy Head, beyond Brighton, are successively visible.
The Chine we lately described, is a fissure in the south side of this stupendous hill. Its extreme height is nearly nine hundred feet above the level of the sea. Originally, it was called Chale Down; the appellation of St. Catherine's having been bestowed on it from the circumstances thus narrated by Sir Richard Worsley. In the... year 1323, Walter de Godyton built a chapel here, and dedicated it to St. Catherine, assign- ing certain rents for a chantry priest to sing mass, and also to provide lights for the safety of such vessels as might chance to come on this dangerous coast during the night. At the dissolution of chantries, it was perhaps found impracticable to divide the useful from the superstitious part of the insti- tution; so that the whole fell together, the chantry involving the lighthouse in its ruin. By an entry in the registers of the diocese, it appears that, eleven years before the erection of this chapel, there was a hermitage standing on the same spot : the entry is as follows : " Walter de Langstrell ad- missus ad hermitorium supra mortem de Chale, in insula Vectis, Id.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
As the eye ranges to the north and west, the New Forest, Southampton Water, Portsdown Hill, the Sussex hills, and Beachy Head, beyond Brighton, are successively visible.
The Chine we lately described, is a fissure in the south side of this stupendous hill. Its extreme height is nearly nine hundred feet above the level of the sea. Originally, it was called Chale Down; the appellation of St. Catherine's having been bestowed on it from the circumstances thus narrated by Sir Richard Worsley. In the... year 1323, Walter de Godyton built a chapel here, and dedicated it to St. Catherine, assign- ing certain rents for a chantry priest to sing mass, and also to provide lights for the safety of such vessels as might chance to come on this dangerous coast during the night. At the dissolution of chantries, it was perhaps found impracticable to divide the useful from the superstitious part of the insti- tution; so that the whole fell together, the chantry involving the lighthouse in its ruin. By an entry in the registers of the diocese, it appears that, eleven years before the erection of this chapel, there was a hermitage standing on the same spot : the entry is as follows : " Walter de Langstrell ad- missus ad hermitorium supra mortem de Chale, in insula Vectis, Id.
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