[232] Churchyard. See Wood’s “Rivers of Wales.”
[233] Was it here that Henry Bolingbroke was confined, as traditionally believed?
[234] The reader is probably aware that in certain churches, palaces, &c., obnoxious pictures and statues were treated in this manner by the soldiery; and hence the lamentable destruction of these works of Art, which were once the ornaments of the country.
[235] See the Woodcut.
[236] See Thomas’s Tinterne, p. 133.
[237] See paper in the “Archæological Journal.”
[238] See Description and Anecdote in a subsequent page of this Volume.
[239] Archæolog. Journal, art. “Raglan Castle.”
[240] Ibidem.
[241] By removing the ivy from a portion of the great Hall, in the course of last autumn, another magnificent window has been brought into view; and by a similar course of discovery, other interesting features of baronial splendour will no doubt reappear.—[Note by Mr. G. May, “Warden” of the Castle, whose efforts to preserve what remains, and bring into view what is yet concealed of these noble ruins, is alike creditable to his taste and his industry.]