The wanderings of a pen and pencil . brasses on thefloor of the church, and thepainted glass, are deserving of Tomb in Morley Church. d()se attention# The great attraction of Morley Church is in the painted glass, which fillsfour windows occupying nearly the whole of the side of the north is much mutilation and misplacement of the subject. The wholerefers to a legend appertaining to Dale Abbey, whence the glass was stolen,or privily obtained, soon after the Dissolution. The party who conveyed itto Morley is said to have suffered grievously by mulct for his illegal lege
The wanderings of a pen and pencil . brasses on thefloor of the church, and thepainted glass, are deserving of Tomb in Morley Church. d()se attention# The great attraction of Morley Church is in the painted glass, which fillsfour windows occupying nearly the whole of the side of the north is much mutilation and misplacement of the subject. The wholerefers to a legend appertaining to Dale Abbey, whence the glass was stolen,or privily obtained, soon after the Dissolution. The party who conveyed itto Morley is said to have suffered grievously by mulct for his illegal legend may be curtailed thus : — When there were canons at Depe Dale(or Dale), a fierce contention sprung up between themselves and the forestersthereof, who disputed possession of the soil, and by their numbers and hardi-hood severely harried the brothers of the monastery and their feeble depend-ants. When the grievance had produced the height of confusion andinsubordination, the principal of the establishment applied to the King of. LEGEND OF DALE ABBET. .313 England for relief in his necessity. The King wished to observe semblanceof piety and a conformity to justice; but in his heart he loved the foi-estsand the foresters, and the good fleet deer under their surveillance, as well asever did the red king so celebrated in the south of the country. So theforesters and the monks were summoned together before the King; and hethus expressed his royal will and commandment, that the abbot and his con-freres should have, as a free grant, so much land in the forest of Depe Daleas they could plough with a couple of stags between one sun and stags were to be captured in the same forest by the religious was a puzzle. The stags were to be caught: just what Mrs. Glasse would have said. And who could ensure the stags remaining so docile as toplough a single furrow ? Well! good St. Robert, who lived here and thereaccording to season — sometimes in his lodge at Knare
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