[119a] Brooke, Ibid. But the earliest record of a stone church in the British Isles is that built by St. Ninian, first Bishop of Scotland. a.d. 488, at Witherne, in Galloway. Bede, “Eccles. Hist.,” book iii., ch. iv.
[119b] “Egregii opperis,” Bede, “Eccles. Hist.,” book i. p. 32.
[119c] Weir’s “Hist. Lincolnshire,” vol i., p. 32.
[120a] A fine copy of Magna Charta, is still preserved among the Archives of the Cathedral.
[120b] In the preamble to a Charter granted to the city (4 Charles I.) Lincoln is called “one of the chiefest seats of our kingdom of England for the staple and public market of wool-sellers and merchant strangers, &c.” There came into the writer’s possession a few years ago a curious relic, consisting of a terra cotta cube, light red in colour, each of the six sides being 1¾ inches square, and having each a different, deeply-cut, pattern; crosses of different kinds, squares, or serpentine lines. It was found in a private garden in Lincoln, and was pronounced to be a stamp for bales of wool. I exhibited it before the Linc. Architectural Society, the Society of Antiquaries, &c.; and ultimately presented it to the British Museum.
[120c] The number of monasteries closed by Henry VIII. was 645, containing some 20,000 religious persons.
[121a] Anderson’s “Pocket Guide,” pp. 119–121.
[121b] Anderson, p. 126.
[121c] Letter written to Mr. Page, who was Mayor of Lincoln in that year.
[122] “Brooke’s “History,” pp. 56, 56.