The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . ler of human devices, most inopportunely frus-trated their intentions. The elder Clegg, too, wasinduced to aid the passion of his son, hoping that,should a union take place, the inheritance mightrevert into the old channel. We have seen the result;the wilfulness and obduracy of Alice, and the infatu-ation of the lover, who had thought to dazzle her withthe riches he purposely spread before her, preventedthe success of their sc
The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . ler of human devices, most inopportunely frus-trated their intentions. The elder Clegg, too, wasinduced to aid the passion of his son, hoping that,should a union take place, the inheritance mightrevert into the old channel. We have seen the result;the wilfulness and obduracy of Alice, and the infatu-ation of the lover, who had thought to dazzle her withthe riches he purposely spread before her, preventedthe success of their schemes. She peremptorily re-fused to become his bride; accusing him of a grossand wanton outrage. What might have been the endof this contention we know not, seeing that an unfore-seen accident caused the explosion, which led to herescape and to the flight of her captors. What remained of the old house was pulled down. The vaults and cellars, which were found to extendfor a considerable distance, even beyond the moat,were walled up, and every vestige that was left, to-gether with an immense hoard of counterfeit money,was completely destroyed. ANGLO-NORMAN DOORWAY,. Kirkstall Abbey was founded in the reign of KingStephen for monks of the Cistertian order, and its firstinmates were removed hither from Bemoldswyk, inMay, 1152. The curious Doorway represented inthe cut, and which forms an entrance to ths Abbeyon the north-western side, may therefore be regardedas an undoubted specimen of Anglo-Norman masoniy,of the time above stated. It consists of a recessedarch of three grades, and among its other moulding-s,exhibits the triplicated zig-zag and the embattled clustered kind of columns, which support theinner arch, is an advance towards the Pointed style;and, with other parts of the Abbey Church, where si-milar characteristics exist, evidently refers to a periodwhen that style was first beg-an to be introduced.* * In a future Number, we shall insert a particular accountof K
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