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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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, was attended by Charles I., who camein state to St. Pauls, and first heard the service in theCathedral, and after that took a seat prepared for him in theopen air before cne door to hear the sermon. The abolitionof bishops, deans and chapters took place in 1642, and wasfollowed, in 1645, by the destruction of St. Pauls Cross inthe churchyard, which had been for many ages the most notedand solemn place in the nation for the gravest divines andgreatest scholars to preach at.^ Viollet le Due, the eminent French architect, in hisDictionnaire dAfchitednre, gives an illustration of a somewhatsimilar edifice, a chapel with opea sides, at the entrance tothe cemetery at Avioth (Meuse). In the centre of this chapelwas a stone receptacle for gifts, which assistant priestsobtained for the repose of souls in purgatory. Mass havmgbeen said, the priest left the chapel and advanced to theplatform to exhort the faithful to pray for the departed, andthen gave his benediction. 1 Old Eii^l.nid, p. 207.
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Notices of lubliatioit^. THE DOMESDA.Y BOROUGHS. By Adolphus Ballard. Oxford:Clarendon Press. 1904. This book is practically a collection of materials in elucidation of thesection on Boroughs (pp. 172-219), in Professor Maitlands Domesday andBeyond, and it may be said at once that the work is very carefully done.The experience of the writer as Town Clerk of Woodstock and Clerk to aBoard of Guardians has no doubt been of service to him, and the book isa good instance of the way in which the experience of to-day may beturned to good service in working out the history of days gone by.Mr. Ballard does not go beyond his master, and herein no doubt he iswise, for the great Record is singularly patient of rash and ill-consideredinterpretations; they pass, and it abides, and it reveals its secrets, so far asit does reveal them, only to careful study and cautious interpretation.The central idea of the book is the distinction which is drawn byDr. Maitland between boroughs of heterogeneous and h

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