The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . ty with pious worksof art, and lightened the strain of an incessantpiety for the poor monks by such cynic-comicdevices. Nowhere can the charm of St. Davids be feltso fully as among the ruins of the Bishops Palace,the work of that great architect, Bishop old walls stand up, shaggy with ivy; the openarcading at the top runs its fine design boldlyalong the sky. Its noble proportions speak tothe mind and recall an ample past. It is interest-ing to remember that one bishop built the palaceand another bishop tried to pull it down. Many r
The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . ty with pious worksof art, and lightened the strain of an incessantpiety for the poor monks by such cynic-comicdevices. Nowhere can the charm of St. Davids be feltso fully as among the ruins of the Bishops Palace,the work of that great architect, Bishop old walls stand up, shaggy with ivy; the openarcading at the top runs its fine design boldlyalong the sky. Its noble proportions speak tothe mind and recall an ample past. It is interest-ing to remember that one bishop built the palaceand another bishop tried to pull it down. Many royal princes have joined the stream thathas flowed to St. Davids, whose shrine, by itsremoteness, the mystery of its sea-coast, and thedifficulties of the journey in a day when wheelsdid not exist, gained all the enchantment thatdistance could lend. William the Conqueror,Henry II., Edward II., and Queen Eleanor areamong the famous travellers who journeyedhere. According to the old poets and chroniclerstwo visits to St. Davids counted as one O. SOLVA AND ST. DAVIDS 309 Roma semel bis Menevia tantum. No place suffered more from the iconoclaststhan St. Davids. The first great criminal wasWilliam Barlow, who sat as bishop from 1536to 1547. He must have been a good man ofbusiness, for, in that space of time, he contrivedto pull the lead roofing off the Bishops Palace,which he sold for his own profit—more remark-able still, he contrived to marry his five daughtersto five bishops! His successor, Bishop Ferrer, the unluckiestbishop that could be imagined, was not altogetherguiltless of spoliation either; but that he wasimprisoned from political motives can be easilygathered from reading the charges against him,which include wearing a hat, christening hischild Samuel, whistling to the said child, whistlingto a seal in Milford Haven, and riding with abridle with white studs and snaffle, white Scottishstirrups, white spurs, a Scottish pad, with a littlestaff three q
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