. A Short account of the ancient and modern state of the city and close of Lichfield. nd in the adjoining fields, a fewfeet beneath the By the path leading- into the Golden (or Golle)meadows, is the remains of a stone building-, andold maps shew a house in this situation. * Amphibalus is said to have been the fii\«t Chancellor ofCambridge, 289. t It has been the custom of civilized nations to collect andburn, or bury the bodies of those slain in battle; here, fragmentsof bones are found scattered through a space exceeding half amile, and in one place only, have they been met with
. A Short account of the ancient and modern state of the city and close of Lichfield. nd in the adjoining fields, a fewfeet beneath the By the path leading- into the Golden (or Golle)meadows, is the remains of a stone building-, andold maps shew a house in this situation. * Amphibalus is said to have been the fii\«t Chancellor ofCambridge, 289. t It has been the custom of civilized nations to collect andburn, or bury the bodies of those slain in battle; here, fragmentsof bones are found scattered through a space exceeding half amile, and in one place only, have they been met with underthe appearance of having been buried, which was in a fieldnear Pones mill, on the cast side of the brook ; these had pro-bably been dug up and thrown into an excavation, as wereseveral cart loads, found in the field adjoining to that in whichthe earthenware, before noticed, was discovered, which werethrown into a marl pit near the spot. Tradition sajs, thebodies of the massacred christians were left unburied, a preyto the birds, and beasts of the forest. 160 Johnsons willow. By the foot path, which leads to Dam street,is a willow, remarkable for its uncommon dimen-sions. It has been erroneously stated to have beenplanted by Dr Johnson, and has still the appella-tion of Johnsons willow; he invariablyvisited it, when he came to Lichfield, whichperhaps may have been the reason why it was socalled: his father, Michael Johnson had a small STOWE POOL. 161 parchment manufactory at the adjoining house. It is of a species which seldom grows to alarge s\ze,(8alix Joliis svlnntergeminis lanceolatoUnearibns /ongissimis acutis subtits sericeis,lamis virf/atis) yet the circumference at the bot-tom, two feet from the ground, is twenty-two feettat the height of six feet, is seventeen feetsix inches, at its division into branches, twelvefeet, and the whole height about seventy-five ;it is now in a state of rapid decay. The pool appears to have once washed itsroots, and extended to the mi
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