The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . e that guarded the town, and constructed it sowell that it proved to l^e one of the strongest in all P>ngland. Leland has this tosay of the keep: High, and verv strong, having in the outer Avail ten semicirculartowers, and one great tower within; and adds that it hath been one of thelargest, fayrest, and strongest in England. Here, again, the Avily Llewelyn comes upon the scene, for he led his menfrom the fastness of the Upper Wac, pillaged and burnt the place, muidered thebishop
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . e that guarded the town, and constructed it sowell that it proved to l^e one of the strongest in all P>ngland. Leland has this tosay of the keep: High, and verv strong, having in the outer Avail ten semicirculartowers, and one great tower within; and adds that it hath been one of thelargest, fayrest, and strongest in England. Here, again, the Avily Llewelyn comes upon the scene, for he led his menfrom the fastness of the Upper Wac, pillaged and burnt the place, muidered thebishop and his assistants, set the cathedral ablaze, and left what had been a fail-town a mass of smouldering ruins. A visitor to this ancient citv will find it hard to realise that anything butpeace and goodwill ever reigned in all the district, for in these days of bustleand worry it would be difficult to discover in all Great Britain a more placid,steady-going, self-satisfied city than Hereford. Well laid out, clean, at leastreasonably well-to-do—although it does not lay claim to be a place of great. 184 RIFERS OF GREAT nHTTAIX. [The Wyb. iiulustrv. Iclviiiir nmn ujmn tlio cliurch and tlio nuirkot tliau upon tlio manufactory—there .seems tuildings taketheir key from tlie graiul cathedral that, cahnly gazuig into the face of Time, hasseen f men and houses generations come and generations go. Hereford as an ecclesiastical centre is one of the ancitnit in Great Britain,liut until the commission of Offas grievous crime it must liave hccn comparativelyunimportant, with a snuill wooden structure for a church. Offas perlidy (-liangedall that. It will be renu^mbered that the ruthless prince treacherously inducedKthelbert, King of the Angles, to visit his Court, where he had
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