Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales . d, judicious, and orthodoxdivine among her prelates, than the late Bishop Van Mildert; onwhose death in 1836, Edward Maltby, , the present bishopwas translated from Chichester, to which see he was appointed in1831. He is a distinguished scholar, and was a member of Pem-broke College, Cambridge. To the credit of the late bishop, as well as to that of the deanand chapter of Durham, it should be mentioned, that the Universityrecently established in this city, and now incorporated by act ofPa
Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales . d, judicious, and orthodoxdivine among her prelates, than the late Bishop Van Mildert; onwhose death in 1836, Edward Maltby, , the present bishopwas translated from Chichester, to which see he was appointed in1831. He is a distinguished scholar, and was a member of Pem-broke College, Cambridge. To the credit of the late bishop, as well as to that of the deanand chapter of Durham, it should be mentioned, that the Universityrecently established in this city, and now incorporated by act ofParliament, owes its origin, endowments, and present flourishingcondition to them. Besides the revenues already stated to havebeen given up by the dean and chapter for the support of theUniversity, the late bishop gave up Durham Castle (situated likethe Cathedral, and in a line with it, with its western facade over-hanging the river), together with its adjacent grounds, for a re-sidence or college to contain the officers, professors, and othermembers of this most useful and increasing 1 £ <L .3 m pi CARLISLE CATHEDRAL. The city of Carlisle is not indebted for its origin, as many oth<are, to the Cathedra] or any other religious establishment Someauthors attribute it to Luel, a British prince, before the Romaninvasion; but this opinion is discarded by others as resting on nocertain foundation, who say, with much more reason, that it wasa Roman station, built by Severus, about the same time withhis famous wall. That it was a place of consequence in thetime of the Romans, says Camden, appears plainly from thevarious evideuces of antiquity occasionally dug up, and from thefrequent mention of it in the writers of those days, and even afterthe ravages of the Picts and Scots, it retained something of itsancient splendour, and was accounted a city. In the itineraryof Antoninus it is called Lugo-vallo, and this name Dr. Burnimagines to have been formed from the Briti
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