Itinerarium curiosum (centuria I) : $b or, an account of the antiquities, and remarkable curiosities in nature or art, observed in travels through Great BritainStukeley, William
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Itinerarium curiosum (centuria I) : $b or, an account of the antiquities, and remarkable curiosities in nature or art, observed in travels through Great Britain
Stukeley, William
Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800; Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
_Stukeley delin._ _E. Kirkall Sculp._]
[Sidenote: +Bury-hill+ Ro. _camp_.]
From hence we journeyed by Aynhoe, where is a vein of stiff clay,
exceeding blue: at Souldern is a curious barrow, neatly turned like a
bell, small and high; I believe it Celtic. Then climbing for a long
while together, we ascended Bury hill, a village upon the highest
copped mountain in the country: it is vulgarly called the Brill, as Mr.
Camden takes notice: this has a vast prospect over Bernwood, Ottmore,
and the whole country, bounded only by the superior Chiltern, seven
miles off, which hence has a most notable aspect, and ends insensibly
at the eastern and western horizon, diminishing regularly all the way:
at the top of the Brill, by the church, I saw parcels of the old Roman
camp, which has been modernised with additional bastions in the civil
wars. Before the Conquest, here was a palace of Edward the Confessor.
Much Roman coin has been found hereabout.
[Sidenote: +Tamese.+]
[Sidenote: TAB. VII. 2d Vol.]
Below here, two or three miles off, stands Tamese, now Tame, upon the
side of a meadow; a pleasant town, consisting of one long and broad
street, running north-east and south-west: behind lie the smiling
arable fields: it is almost encompassed with rivulets. This was called
a _burg_ in the time of Edward the elder, anno 921, who besieged the
Danes here, and took the burg, or castle. I saw infinite quantities
of the _cornu ammonis_, a foot and half or two foot diameter, laid in
the roads among rubble stone to mend them: all the quarries hereabouts
abound with them of all dimensions. Here is a fine large church in form
of a cross: in it many brasses and old monuments: some I transcribed.
_Thome de Grey filii Roberti dni. de Grey Retherfeld militis obiit anno
dni. millesimo_ ccc. Another thus.
O certyn deth that now hast overthrowe
Richard Quatremayns squier and Sibil his wyf that ly her now full
lowe
That with rial prinses of councel was true and wise famed
To Richard duke of Yorke and after with his sone king Edward IIII
named
That founded in the chyrche of Tame a chantrye six pore men and a
fraternity
In the worship of St. Christofere to be relieved in perpetuitye
They that of their almys for their sowles a _pater noster_ and
_ave_ devoutly wul seye
Of holy fadurs is granted them pardun of days xl alway.
Which Richard and Sibil out of this world passed in the yer of our lord
M. cccclx. upon their sowles jhu have mercy amen. Another thus.
_Orate pro animabus Galfredi Dormer mercatoris Stapile ville Calis &
Margere & Alicie uxoris ejus qui quidem Galfridus ob. 9 Mar. 1502.
quorum_ _animabus propicietur deus amen._ There are the images of
twenty-five children upon this stone.
John lord Williams of Tame baronet, baron of Tame, ob. 14 Oct. 1559.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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