An Accurate Description and History of the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of St. Peter, York Volume 1; Illustrated with Fourteen Copper Plates, ... Added, Catalogues of the Archbishops, Deans,

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. 1768 Excerpt: ...that the Dean was slain by an armed' Man at Mass, because the Image had a Representation os at Wound in its Head, and the Story was depicted in the adjoining Window. We take this to have been some Allusion to the Murder of St. Thomas a Becket, for we are not to suppose that the Brother of Stephen Langton, then Archbishop of Canterbury, could be slain in" so publick a Man ner, and no'Notice taken of it in History. The Monument fared no better for its Covering with Brass, for the Plunderers in the stripping broke the Stone to Pieces, which were some Time ago found baried in the Ground, probably by some considerate Person of those Times, in digging Dean Finche's Grave. We shall begin our Descrip tion of the Gravestones, Monuments, &c. from the South Entrance of the Crose!sle, and then this remarkable Tomb of Langton's takes Place according to its Seniority. The Monumlnts and Monumental Inscriptions which were' on the Gravestones, &c. of the Cathedral Church of YorÆ, in the Tear 164.1, and at the taking, up the old Pavement. In the South Cross Ife: ¥he Monumental Inscriptions are so numerous, and at the fame Time so similar, that it would be tedious to transcribe them, and it will probably be more agreeable to our Readers that we jhould select those that are most remarkable, and give only the Names and Dates of the others, having sirst given a few in the Order they occur, as a Specimen of the rest. And first that of Dean Langton, which is a Table Tomb, with his Effigy at sull Length on its Back, supported by four short Pillars, and bears this Inscription: Hie requiescit Corpus WilHelmi Languetoni quondam Decani Eboraci, qui obiit Die Slir Swithini, Anno Dom. 1279, cujus Anima sit cum Deo. fieri rests the Body ofWWYmn Langton,some Tine Bea...