Le cattedrali e le abbazie e chiese di Inghilterra e Galles : descrittivo, storico, pittoriche . , E all'interno di distanza per parlare del Priorato di Chiesa, è stata inventata tlie famoso tracciato per dethroning Richard. TheDuke di Buckingham stabiliti dal Castello Brecknock su un dato giorno con un largearmy; ha raggiunto Gloucester, ma le inondazioni avevano molto gonfia il fiume Severn,rendendola impraticabile, e noi non siamo sorpresi di apprendere che Buckinghamsill-nominato esercito si sciolgono come neve al sole caldo. Buckingham era takenprisoner attraverso il tradimento di un servo fidato, ed eseguiti nel luogo di mercato, Shrewsbur

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Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . , and within speaking distance ofthe Priory Church, was concocted tlie famous plot for dethroning Richard. TheDuke of Buckingham set out from Brecknock Castle on a given day with a largearmy; he reached Gloucester, but the floods had much swollen the river Severn, rendering it impassable, and we are not surprised to learn that Buckinghamsill-appointed army melted like snow in the warm sun. Buckingham was takenprisoner through the treachery of a trusted servant, and executed in the Market-place, Shrewsbury. Edward Stafford, the traitors son, was ultimately restored totitle and estates, by Henry VII.; like his father, he was proud, ambitious, andfeli himself a duke:— He deemed plebeians, with patrician bloodCompared, the creatures of a lower species:Mere menial hands, by nature meant to serve him. DUECOX.] A HAUGHTY NOBLE. 445 It is recorded that on one occasion lie exhibited such haughtiness that he threwa basin of water in Cardinal Wolseys face, and this impetuous incident sealed his. ST. Johns, bkkco.v. destruction; he was executed on Tower Hill, May 17th, 1521. lie met his fatewith heroic courage, disdaining to sue for merc3 A foreign emperor, when heheard of his execution, severely remarked that a butchers dog had run down thefinest buck in England (alluding to Wolseys being the son of a butcher). With the fall of the Buckinghams, succeeded by the dissolution of the mo-nasteries, the former magnificence of the Church and Priory of St. John passedawa}. Then came the era of the trade guilds, with their beautifully sculpturedmemorial stones, many of which still adorn the paved floors of the church—the mercers, the corvizors, the weavers, the tuckers: honest burgesses of Brecon, many of them of ancient lineage, and many of them, again, the ancestors of opulentfamilies now resident in the county. The baron and his retainers, the prior andhis monks, were now to disappear for

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