CHAP. I. | |
introduction | page |
CHAP. II. | |
the cathedral | |
CHAP. III. | |
the castle | |
CHAP. IV. | |
the market-place | |
CHAP. V. | |
the guildhall | |
CHAP. VI. | |
pageantry | |
CHAP. VII. | |
superstitions | |
CHAP. VIII. | |
conventual remains and biographicalsketches | |
ERRATA. [0]
Page 7, line 15, for “these,” read “those.”
„ 8, line 10, for “querus,” read “querns.”
„ 37, line 16, for “veriest,” read “various.”
„ 59, lines 24 and 26, for “Hoptin,” read “Hopkin.”
„ 64, line 8, for “spirit—powers,” read “spirit-powers.”
CHAPTER I.
introduction.
Who that has ever looked upon the strange conglomerations of architecture that line the thoroughfares of an ancient city, bearing trace of a touch from the hand of every age, from centuries far remote,—or watched the busy scenes of modern every-day life, surrounded by solemnly majestic, or quaintly grim old witnesses of our nation’s’ infancy,—but has felt the Poetry of History that lies treasured up in the chronicles of an “Old City?”
We may not all be archæologists, we may many of us feel little sympathy with the love of accumulating time-worn, moth-eaten relics of ages passed away, still less may we desire to see the resuscitation of dead forms, customs or laws, which we believe to