. Vanishing England . Detail of Fifteenth-century Barge-board, Burford, Oxon. entries in the books of the church tell the sad storytersely :— Burials.— 1649 Three soldiers shot to death in Burford Churchyard May 17th. Pd. to Daniel Muncke for cleansinge the Church when the Levellers were taken 3s. 4d. A walk through the streets of the old town is refreshingto an antiquarys eyes. The old stone buildings greywith age with tile roofs, the old Tolsey much restored,the merchants guild mark over many of the ancient door- Ill • ./1. ioo VANISHING ENGLAND ways, the noble church with its eight chapels
. Vanishing England . Detail of Fifteenth-century Barge-board, Burford, Oxon. entries in the books of the church tell the sad storytersely :— Burials.— 1649 Three soldiers shot to death in Burford Churchyard May 17th. Pd. to Daniel Muncke for cleansinge the Church when the Levellers were taken 3s. 4d. A walk through the streets of the old town is refreshingto an antiquarys eyes. The old stone buildings greywith age with tile roofs, the old Tolsey much restored,the merchants guild mark over many of the ancient door- Ill • ./1. ioo VANISHING ENGLAND ways, the noble church with its eight chapels and finetombs, the plate of the old corporation, now in the custodyof its oldest surviving member (Burford has ceased to bean incorporated borough), are all full of interest. Van-dalism is not, however, quite lacking, even in of the few Gothic chimneys remaining, a gem with acrocketed and pinnacled canopy, was taken down somethirty years ago, while the Priory is said to be in dangerof being pulled down, though a later report speaks onlyof its restoration. In the coaching age the town wasalive with traffic, and Burford races, established by theMerry Monarch, brought it much gaiety. At the GeorgeInn, now degraded from its old estate and cut up intotenements, Charles I stayed. It was an inn for more thana century before his time, and was only converted fromthat purpose during the early years of the nineteenthcentury, when the proprietor of the Bull Inn bought it upand closed its doors to the public with a vie
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