century and a half of ominous silence which suc-ceeded the coming of Inguar and Hubba. Streones-halch lay desolate for two hundred and seven years,says one historian, and the Memorial of Benefac-tions tells us that at the time of the refounding, there were in the said will, as ancient… … Whitby. 69 Early English buildings arc connected only byidentity of site and continuity of tradition, andit is from such precious fragments as the dark-crypt of St. Wilfrid at Ripon, that we must learnhow men built in Hildas time. History, in thiscase more lasting than its monuments, has…
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