The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great BritainAccompanied with descriptions . ad aulamQui furat banc nolam sede beati. MALMiiBURY ABBEY. But, however, this inscription did not protect either thisor any other of the bells from sacrilege; for there are nownone left belonging to the abbey church, and those whichserve for the use of the parish, are in a lonely spire steepleof one of the two ancient parish churches at the end of thechurch-yard ; the church belonging to which hath long s
The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great BritainAccompanied with descriptions . ad aulamQui furat banc nolam sede beati. MALMiiBURY ABBEY. But, however, this inscription did not protect either thisor any other of the bells from sacrilege; for there are nownone left belonging to the abbey church, and those whichserve for the use of the parish, are in a lonely spire steepleof one of the two ancient parish churches at the end of thechurch-yard ; the church belonging to which hath long sincebeen made a dwelling for poor people. The inhabitants,out of the regard they had to king Athelstan, who was thefounder of all the privileges, have, in memory of him, putup in the abbey-church an effigy of stone. In this abbey, as we learn from Anglia Sacra, was buriedJohn Gifford, founder of St. Benedict college and Gloucester-hall in Oxford. The town of Malmsbury has produced several men of con-siderable eminence ; particularly William of Malmsbury, thehistorian ; Oliver of Malmsbury, by some called Elmer andEgelmer, a mathematician j and Thomas Hobbs, the SAINT NEOPs AND EYNESBURY, HUNTINGDONSHIRE, The adjoining parishes of Saint Neots and Eynesbury,though at present distinct, formed originally but one. SaintNeots is a pretty market town, containing 2000 inhabitants:Eynesbury is a village, with a population of 700 persons,and is separated from the former by a small stream, calledHen-brook. The early history of these places is but little known. Thereappears, however, to be considerable foundation for a con-jecture that the Romans had a subordinate post in thispart of the country ; possibly as a defence of the fords of theOuse. Unquestionably a Roman road passes through theeastern confines of both these parishes, which connected thestations of Salndy (Salina;) and Godmanchester (Duroli-pons). Vestiges of a quadrangular entrenchment may stillbe traced near the
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