St. Laurence,Bishopstone. CURIOUS VANES. 177 cross of o-ilt copper. Some strange stories aretold respecting it. According to one of MotherShiptons prophecies, when the dragon of BowChurch, and the grasshopper of the RoyalExchange should meet, London streets would bedeluged with blood ! In 1820,… … The Dragon, St. Mary-le-P.ow. Washington Irving, in one of his pleasant passages, refers to the story, and of his seeing the vanes lying cheek by jowl. We are told when the dragon was taken down in 1820, a young Irishman got on its back and descended from the spire-point, and pushed it from the…
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