A supplement to the second edition of Mr. Bentham's History & antiquities of the cathedral & conventual church of Ely : comprising enlarged accounts of the monastery, lady chapel, Prior Crawden's chapel, the palaces and other buildings connected with the See and the church : with lists of the chancellors, vicars general, officials, commissaries, chief justices of the Isle of Ely, &c. : also, notes, architectural, biographical, historical and explanatory (1817)
Stevenson, William, 1741-1821, Bentham, James, 1708-1794. History and antiquities of the conventual & cathedral church of Ely, Howlett, Bartholomew, 1767-1827, engraver, Harris, John, active 1680-1740, engraver, Hollis, George, 1793-1842, engraver, Stevenson, Matchett and Stevenson, publisher, Cadell & Davies, bookseller · Norwich: : Printed by and for Stevenson, Matchett, and Stevenson; and sold by them; also by Messrs. Cadell and Davies; Longman, Hurst, and Co.; Nichols, Son, and Bentley; Scatcherd and Letterman; and Taylor, 59 High Holborn, London. Messrs. Deightons, Cambridge; Parker, and Bliss, Oxford; Todds, York; and Edwards, Ely · leaf 113
this country. And, that he may knowhow narrowly the whole of this fine Cathedral escaped destruction, in the time of Cromwell, let him readthe following extract from the Journals of the House of Commons: Ao. * There are three distinct dates, and different degrees, of our English Reformation. The… … OF ELY CATHEDRAL. 71 the front next the altar, the wainscot of which conceals their mutilated forms.Mr. Bentham endeavoured, with the greatest attention to its original state, to freethe stone-work from the white-wash, and to renew the colouring of the orna-ments. The Bishops tomb is under an arch,…
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