The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . er and restorer, occupiesa position between the Wye and the Monnow. Monmouth has had its ups anddowns; for long before the Conquesta fortress existed here, and to build acastle has ever been to invite a the davs of Henry III. the castlewas levelled with the ground so effec-tively that Lambarde writes : Thus theglorie of Monmouth had clean perished;ne hade it pleased Gode longe after inthat jilace to give life to the nobleKing Henry V., who of the same iscalled Henry of Monmouth. Joh
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . er and restorer, occupiesa position between the Wye and the Monnow. Monmouth has had its ups anddowns; for long before the Conquesta fortress existed here, and to build acastle has ever been to invite a the davs of Henry III. the castlewas levelled with the ground so effec-tively that Lambarde writes : Thus theglorie of Monmouth had clean perished;ne hade it pleased Gode longe after inthat jilace to give life to the nobleKing Henry V., who of the same iscalled Henry of Monmouth. John ofGaunt lived here, and Henry IV. also,and, as the ancient writer says, Henry born in the castle. This event hasncjt been forgotten, for a statue of thepopular king stands o2jposite the TownHall in Agincourfc Square, the centre ofthe town. In more ancient days Mon-mouth was a walled town, and one ofthe four gates of the wall still stands ;and a bridge built in 1272, remarkablynaiTOw, but sturdy and strong, still spansthe Monnow; while the meagre ruins ofthe castle look down from the brow of. TlMIiUX AUbEY. Ul JiTVERS OF GREAT BRITArX. [Thf Wvb. the river-cliff on the meadows by riiis tributary stream. St. ^farvs Church hasa spire 200 feet in heijzlit : St. Thomass Chapel, datiiiu- from the days of theNormans, stands in the centre of the part of tlic town whidi used to be <rivenup to tlie making of the renowned Monmoutli cap, of wliidi Fuller, in hisWorthies, says: These were the most ancient, wium, :iinl ])rofitabiecoverings of mens heads in this island. It is wortli our pains to observe thetenderness of our kings to preserve the trade of cap-making, and what long andstrong struggling our State had to keep up the using thereof, so many thousandsof ])eople being thereby maintained in the land, especiallv before the inventionof fulling-mills, all caps before that time being wrought, beaten, and thickenedby the hands and feet of men, till those mills, as they
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