. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . the impossibility thatexisted of inserting any lengthened observationsin some places in the text, without altering theoriginal matter, together with the perplexity whichwould have arisen to the reader, had the pagesbeen more encumbered with notes than they al-ready are, will, the Editor trusts, form a sufficientapology for introducing an extra Chapter, andfor offering a few remarks on the improvementswhich have taken place in and about this ancientcity. The cathedral, as
. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . the impossibility thatexisted of inserting any lengthened observationsin some places in the text, without altering theoriginal matter, together with the perplexity whichwould have arisen to the reader, had the pagesbeen more encumbered with notes than they al-ready are, will, the Editor trusts, form a sufficientapology for introducing an extra Chapter, andfor offering a few remarks on the improvementswhich have taken place in and about this ancientcity. The cathedral, as has already been stated in aformer part of the work, is a very beautiful spe-cimen of monastic taste: its fine Gothic columnssuppoiting an arched roof profusely stiriated andemblazoned; its lightness; its monumental de-corations, and the just proportions oJjservablein the whole, form a striking contrast to laterworks. The present Dean of Canterbury, (the Hon-ourable and Very Reverend Doctor Hugh Percy)has been the chief promoter of the repairs antldecorations which this venerable cathedral has !/,-?? .li^ufSi^^ ^ CRANMER, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. This eminent prelate, the son of Thomas Cranmer, esq. was bom at Aslaeton, inNottinglianishirc, in 1489. In 1303, he was admitted of Jesus College, Cambridge,where he highly distinguished himself by his unwearied application to his studies. Afterhaving been some time a fellow of tliat society, he married; but, his wife dying withinthe year, he was re-admitted to liis fellowship; and, in 1523, lie commenced andbecame reader of the divinity-lecture in his own college. Being ajjpointed one of theexaminers of those wlio commenced baclielors and doctors in divinity, he questioned themout of the Scriptures, and would by no means sutfer tliem to pass, if he found them un-acquainted with them. During his residence at Cambridge, the question arose concerningHenry divorce; and, the plague breaking out at Cambridge that yea
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