. Vanishing England . as the rendezvous of the Royalists,but alas ! one day Cromwells soldiers made an attack onthe Maids Head, and took for their prize the horsesof Dame Paston stabled here. We must pass over the records of civic feasts andaldermanic junketings, which would fill a volume, andseek out the old Britons Arms, in the same city, athatched building of venerable appearance with its pro-jecting upper storeys and lofty gable. It looks as if itmay not long survive the march of progress. The parish of Heigham, now part of the city of Nor-wich, is noted as having been the residence of Bis
. Vanishing England . as the rendezvous of the Royalists,but alas ! one day Cromwells soldiers made an attack onthe Maids Head, and took for their prize the horsesof Dame Paston stabled here. We must pass over the records of civic feasts andaldermanic junketings, which would fill a volume, andseek out the old Britons Arms, in the same city, athatched building of venerable appearance with its pro-jecting upper storeys and lofty gable. It looks as if itmay not long survive the march of progress. The parish of Heigham, now part of the city of Nor-wich, is noted as having been the residence of BishopHall, the English Seneca, and author of the Medita-tions, on his ejection from the bishopric in 1647 till hisdeath in The house in which he resided, now 1 It is erroneously styled Bishop Halls Palace. An episcopal palace isthe official residence of the bishop in his cathedral city. Not even acountry seat of a bishop is correctly called a palace, much less the resi-dence of a bishop when ejected from his .__-== % \ ,*«\ Y^o Tlic Britons Arms, Norwich 248 VANISHING ENGLAND known as the Dolphin Inn, still stands, and is aninteresting building with its picturesque bays and mul-lioned windows and ingeniously devised porch. It hasactually been proposed to pull down, or improve out ofexistence, this magnificent old house. Its front is aperfect specimen of flint and stone sixteenth-centuryarchitecture. Over the main door appears an episcopalcoat of arms with the date 1587, while higher on thefront appears the date of a restoration (in two bays) :?— N/iO A°DNI
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