This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 Excerpt: ...with a cinerary vase. Under the second arch from the choir is the plain tomb of Bishop Morley, inclosed with iron rails, and having the mitre and crosier of the bishop suspended over it against the adjacent columns of the nave.--The epitaph is as follows: In ape resurrectionis ad vitam aternam GEORGIUS EPISCOPUS ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 Excerpt: ...with a cinerary vase. Under the second arch from the choir is the plain tomb of Bishop Morley, inclosed with iron rails, and having the mitre and crosier of the bishop suspended over it against the adjacent columns of the nave.--The epitaph is as follows: In ape resurrectionis ad vitam aternam GEORGIUS EPISCOPUS WINTONIENSIS hicjactt, Qui post quam pro Rege et Martyre Carolo Pnmo Et cum Rege et exile Carolo Secundo, Exilium in partibus transmarinis hie, illic, Duodccim plus minus annorum exegisset, Redux cum Rege tandem in Patriam suam, Munificentia magis Regia, quam illo sui ipsivw (Tam in sublimibus io Ecclesiae gradibus) patri merito Primum ex uno Canonicorum, Ecclesis Clin-t, Oxoniensis factus est decanus; breviq; postea In ecclesiae Vigorniensis prcesulatum est Evectns; tandemq; (sic volente Deo et Rege) la hujus inclytae Wintoniensis Ecclesiae Episcopatum est translates: et jam plus Quam Octogenarius, hoc sibi Epitaphium Scripsit, et huic sui deposito apponi jussit. Obijt vero anno Domini MDCLXXXIV, Mensis Octobris die XXI X. Anno jEtatis suae LXXXVII; postquam In hie Episcopali Cathedra Sederat annos XXII, manets quinq; Upon one of the columns adjoining the tomb (c)f Bishop Morley, is the following epitaph engraved on a plate of brass, equally curious for its information and the style in which it is conveyed: A MEMORIALL For this Renowned Martialist Richard Boles, of y' Right Worshipfull Family of the Bolses in Linckhorne Sheire, Collonell of a Ridgement of Foot of 1300, who for his gratious King Charles ye First did wounders att the Battell of Edge hill. His last Action, to oniitt all others, was at Alton, in this County of Soughthampton, was surprized by fiue or six thousand of the Rebel Is; which caused him, there quartered, to fly to the Churc.
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