Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . or more interesting history; and, atall events from an architectural point of view, several of its churches are verycurious and attractive. Leicester, moreover, was the scene of the death ofCardinal Wolsey under circumstances so dramatic, not to say tragic, that it wasinevitable they should take a strong hold upon the imagination. It was in achamber of the abbey of St. Mary de Pratis that the Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Leicester Churches.] THE ABBEY. 421 Legate a latere and Archbishop of York, expired, upo
Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . or more interesting history; and, atall events from an architectural point of view, several of its churches are verycurious and attractive. Leicester, moreover, was the scene of the death ofCardinal Wolsey under circumstances so dramatic, not to say tragic, that it wasinevitable they should take a strong hold upon the imagination. It was in achamber of the abbey of St. Mary de Pratis that the Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Leicester Churches.] THE ABBEY. 421 Legate a latere and Archbishop of York, expired, upon a dreary Novemberdaj in 1530; and long- before dawn on the follownig morning tlie disgracedprelate was buried by torchlight in the abbey church. That church has longsince entirely disappeared; and the day came when even the dust of the proudChancellor was scattered to the winds. The Abbey of Leicester was founded in 1143 by Robert, second Earl ofLeicester of the de Bellomont creation for Augustinian Canons Ilegular. Inexpiation of his rebellion againstthe sovereign, and of the harm he. BT. NICHOLAS. 8T MARGARETS THE 1ORCH had done to the townof Leicester, the earlentered the monasteryof his own foundation,and died there. Leices-ter Abbey was wealthyfrom the first. It covmtcd thirty-six manors in Leicestershire alone among its en-dowments, and was able to maintain the whole of the poor in its few crumbling walls are all that now remains of Earl Roberts rich ruins are romantically situated in the centre of the Abbey Park, which isa tastefully laid out and well-kept pleasaunce belonging to the town. The littleriver Soar flows sluggishly near the scanty vestiges of the building in which wasended one of the most remarkable careers in history. Few men wdiose names haveresounded through the world have left so few visible personal traces as Thomas 04 422 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. FLeicester Wolsey; for lie lias neither tomb nor monument, and even the stone
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