. The New England magazine. uggle ended in 901,was buried in the OldMinster; but unfortunate-ly the fear of his great-ness was too strong,and the canons of the church,scared and declaring that his ghostwalked and gave them no peace,;begged his son Edward to trans-fer his body to the New Minster,hard by. When, in mi, thatmonastery was removed to Hyde, justoutside the city walls, the bones werealso removed and buried in the newAbbey church. Finally, in theeighteenth century, when the ruins ofHyde Abbey were pulled down, theremains of the noblest of Englishkings disappeared forever. Two generatio
. The New England magazine. uggle ended in 901,was buried in the OldMinster; but unfortunate-ly the fear of his great-ness was too strong,and the canons of the church,scared and declaring that his ghostwalked and gave them no peace,;begged his son Edward to trans-fer his body to the New Minster,hard by. When, in mi, thatmonastery was removed to Hyde, justoutside the city walls, the bones werealso removed and buried in the newAbbey church. Finally, in theeighteenth century, when the ruins ofHyde Abbey were pulled down, theremains of the noblest of Englishkings disappeared forever. Two generations after the death ofthe great Alfred, during the reign ofhis grandson Edgar, there arose apowerful reforming bishop, Ethelwoldby name. By him a new cathedralwas begun, of wonderful fashion, inwrought stone. By the side of themasons labored the monks. So manythe chapels, the chronicler tells us, sonumerous the columns, that a manmight easily be lost in the cathedral;and above all rose a mighty tower WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL. 37. THE CHOIR. shining with burnished gold, crownedwith a weathercock, which filled thetraveller coming down the hill intothe city with amazement. Up thereit stands aloft, says Wulfstan, overthe heads of the men of Winchester, and up in midair seems nobly to rulethe western world. And then therewas the wonderful organ, or pair oforgans, with twelve bellows below andfourteen above, with seventy strongmen as blowers, working with much 3$ WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL.
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