A Walk Round Dorchester;: Containing an Account of Every Thing Worthy the Observation of the Traveller and Antiquary, Within that Ancient Town, and the Circumference of a Few Miles, Compiled from the Best Authorities; Also an Account of the Abbeys of Milton, Cerne, and Bindon, Together with Sherborne, Lulworth, and Corfe Castles; Embellished with a Finely Executed View of Dorchester and Fordington, and a Correct Map of the County..J. Criswick, ... Dorchester: and may be had of every bookseller in the county., 1820 - 129 páginas |
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Página 107 - What does not fade ? The tower that long had stood The crush of thunder and the warring winds, Shook by the slow but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base.
Página 17 - The distribution is such, that not only the male prisoners are separated from the female, and the felons from the debtors, fines, &c. but those of each description are subdivided into classes ; and for each class, by means of distinct stair-cases, separate subdivisions are appropriated, with courts, work-rooms, &c. to each. The female fines, and female debtors, have each a commodious room, with every possible convenience, over the male debtors...
Página 86 - In the third barrow which was opened, no less than five skeletons were found ; " three of them were in a row, lying on their backs : two of these appeared to be of the common size, but that in the middle was a small one, probably of some young person. The two others were at the distance of a few feet from those of the ordinary size, with the head of one lying on the breast of the other. Each of the skeletons had an urn upon it ; but these were so perished, that, upon being touched, they fell into...
Página 111 - AD 978, in the Saxon Annals (though some of our historians say 979 and 981), upon occasion of the barbarous murder of Edward, King of the West Saxons, son of King Edgar, committed here by his mother-in-law, Elfrith, or Elfrida, 15 cal. April, in the middle of Lent : the foulest deed, says the Saxon annalist, ever committed by the Saxons since they landed in Britain. He was in life an earthly King ; he is now, after death, a heavenly saint.
Página 18 - ... to the care of their friends. There are also two rooms in the lodge for the habitation of the task-master, and a small one for one of the turnkeys ; a wardrobe ; a room containing one of Stockdale's mills for grinding corn, and every other requisite for grinding and for dressing the flour, where all the corn used for supplying the prison is ground, and which is found to answer extremely well ; a committee room for the magistrates to transact business in ; an office for the gaoler ; a bake-house...
Página 28 - Cuneus, or parcel of seats, of nearly thirty-feet broad, just over the more elevated part of the circular work, reaching up to the terrace, which swells out above the concavity of the whole, and answers to the rising ground in the middle of the terrace. Some years ago, a silver coin was ploughed up here, which fell into the hands of Mr.
Página 27 - Several horses abreast may go upon this, ascending by the ruins of the cavea: this receptacle of the gladiators, wild beasts, &c. is supposed to have been at the upper end, under the ascent to the terrace, there being vaults under that part of the body of the work. The area is no doubt exceedingly elevated by manuring and ploughing for many years, yet it still preserves a concavity, for the descent from the entrance is very great, and you may go down as into a shallow pit. The middle part of it is...
Página 124 - Seventh, may be traced in this extensive and stupendous ruin. " We could not view without horror the dungeons which remain in some of the towers : they recalled to our memory the truly diabolical cruelty of King John, by whose order twenty-two prisoners, confined in them were starved to death.
Página 121 - ... ladders ; and it was ordered, by their leaders, that, when twenty men were entered, they should give a watch-word to the rest, which was Old Watt ; an ominous word, as it proved. They divided their forces into two parties ; one assaulted the middle ward, defended by Captain Laurence, and the greater part of the garrison ; the other assaulted the upper ward, which Lady Bankes, her daughters, women, and five soldiers, defended ; and, to her eternal honour, as bravely performed it ; for, by heaving...
Página 85 - One of the leg-bones appeared to have been fractured ; but whether this haJ happened by some wound in war, or by some accident at the funeral, or by the weight of the superincumbent earth, it is impossible to determine. On the breast of the skeleton was deposited a rude urn, too much decayed to be handled without falling to pieces, of about the measure of two quarts, but empty of ever}- thing except the same fine mould that covered the skeleton.