. The camp of refuge;. abbey, whichwas erected full three centuries after his death. Crowland is a dull, decayed village. Many of thecottages look as mouldy as if they had remained un-touched since the dissolution, when the glory of Crow-land departed. The wondrous triangular bridge stillexists in the village street, though even a delugingrain now fails to make a stream run beneath its finelymoulded and ancient arches, which for five hundredyears have attested the skill of all its builders. Thevillagers will have the seated effigy on the bridge to■be Cromwell, with a loaf of bread in his hand.
. The camp of refuge;. abbey, whichwas erected full three centuries after his death. Crowland is a dull, decayed village. Many of thecottages look as mouldy as if they had remained un-touched since the dissolution, when the glory of Crow-land departed. The wondrous triangular bridge stillexists in the village street, though even a delugingrain now fails to make a stream run beneath its finelymoulded and ancient arches, which for five hundredyears have attested the skill of all its builders. Thevillagers will have the seated effigy on the bridge to■be Cromwell, with a loaf of bread in his may have been that the figure was originallyintended to represent iEthelwald, king of Mercia, oneof the first benefactors of the abbey; others, again,think it to be the figure of a saint from a niche in thechurch. The story goes, that about the year 710 ^thel-wald was a fugitive, and sought refuge with his kins-man Guthlac, who prophesied his future greatness. Ina,cknowledgment of the fulfilment of this
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