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Excerpt from The Works of Thomas Hearne, M.A, Vol. 1: Containing the First Volume of Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle
That I have not yet met with in any other. The first, and not the second, Edition of Hollingshede's Chro nicle, the true genuine Work of the Author. V. Many things in Robert of Gloucester, that properly belong to thebusiness of anantiquary. In the Saxon Times the Princes, and other great Personages, did not use to be buried at their Palaces, butat Religi ous Houses. Cosham in W ills/tire very famous for merly. The Cofiin lately found there belong'd to somefine Gentleman since the Conquest. The Knife with which Edward the Martyr was kill 'd, presero'd at Caversham in the time of Robert of Gloucester, Three kinds of Churches formerly. Vt. Robert of Gloucester's Account of the Conflict between the Scholars and Townsmen of Oxford, in the time of Henry III. Very remarkable in all it's Circum stances. Vu. Which tho' it be published by Mr Wood, yet he seems to have had it from second hand. The ibat'¿nell, mentioned in that Account, 23, probably, the same with Walton We. Wal tun we the oldest Well of note about Oxford. St. Edward's Well by St. Clement's, older than the old Well from which St. Crosse's Parish, in the Suburbs (y' Orford, was called Holywell. The respect formerly paid to Wells, which occasioned Injunctions against the Worship of them. Vur. Our Author's Poetry agreeable to the Genius of his Age, and his regard to truth in his Rhythms.
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