The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts (1834) (14780056204)

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Title: The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854
Subjects: England -- Antiquities England -- Architecture England -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Chidley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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to declare that he would givea large sum of money to any person who would bringback the witch. At the expiration of two days shewas brought in by some shepherds, who had found her.The Commissary demanded of her why she had notflown far enough to escape from those who sought her ?Upon which she replied, that her master would notcarry her farther than three leagues, and that he hadleft her in the field where the shepherds had foundher.—Sandoval Hist. The civil judge having pronounced upon the affairof the hundred and fifty witches, they were deliveredup to the Inquisition of Estella ; and neither the oint-ment, nor the devil, could give them wings to fly awayfrom the punishment of two hundred lashes, andseveral years imprisonment, which they were com-pelled to undergo. D. C. REMAINS OF THE STATUE OF ST. ETHELBERT, KING OF THE EAST ANGLES, IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF HEREFORD.
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On the south side of the Chapel dedicated to theVirgin Mary, formerly called our Ladys Chapel,but now used as a Library, is a mutilated effigy ofSt. Ethelbert, King of the East Angles, whosemurder by Offa, was the first great cause of the his-toric importance of the Church of Hereford. Thisfigure, which is about five feet in length, was dug upsome years ago at the entrance to the Chapel; it is sculptured in stone, as dressed in a Saxon surcoatand robes, and having a regal crown on its head.On the surcoat appear to have been painted thearms of Ethelbert, and it has been illuminated indifferent places with gilt Saxon characters. On thecrown, surcoat, and robes, are the traces of rich gild-ing and colouring, and the whole figure very muchresembles the one carved on the shrine which for- THE GRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATOR. 221 merly stood on the high altar,* of which Duncumbhas given a representation. The feet of the figurerest on a pediment or projection of stone ; the underpart of w