70 HERMITS, FORDS, AND BRIDGE-CHAPELS. 



Shalfleet Haven Hermitage. 3 Pat. 2 Ed. HI. m. 17. 



Leicester. — West Bridge, In the 'Topographical Cabinet," 

 vol. ix., is a view of the remains of a chapel existing on the bridge 

 c. 1800, then converted into a dwelling liouse. 



Bradford, Wilts. In the same work, vol. vi., is a fine 

 engraving of the old bridge, with remains of the chapel or 

 hermitage in the middle of it, apparently then used for a toll 

 house, (c. 1800.) 



Huntingdon. — Chauntry on the Bridge here, mentioned i Pat. 

 3 Ed. III. m. 24. An indulgence was granted by Fordham, 

 Bishop of Ely, in 1401, for building the chapel of S. Thomas the 

 Martyr and S. Catharine on Huntingdon Bridge. 



Kilkenny, Ireland, Bennett's Bridge. 3 Pat. 16 Ric. II. m. 2. 

 " A grant was made to the chaplain by the king, that he might 

 erect and crenellate a certain stone tower tipoti his bridge there." 



Wallingford, Berks., Chapel of " Mary of Grace" {^ide 

 Hedges' " Wallingford," ii., 253.) 



Much might be said about these, but as the object of this 

 journal is to elucidate the history of Derbyshire especially, we 

 must leave them for the archseologists of other counties to unfold 

 their separate histories. 



I cannot conclude this paper better than by giving a very 

 apposite illustration from Mrs. Jamieson's "Sacred and Legendary 

 Art." In her account of the hermit saints, she relates an interest- 

 ing legend (p. 449) of S. Julian — " Hospitator," who, having 

 slain his parents unwittingly in a fit of jealous suspicion of his 

 wife's infidelity, on discovering his error "wept bitterly, and 

 wrung his hands, and said, 'Alas! by what evil fortune is this that 

 what I sought to avoid (alluding to a prophecy of ill omen to his 

 parents at his hand) has come to pass ? Farewell, my sweet sister 

 (to his wife), I can never again live with thee until I have been 

 pardoned this great sin.' And she answered him, ' Nay, my 

 brother, can I allow thee to depart, and without me? Thy grief is 

 my grief, and whither thou goest, I will go.' So they departed 

 together and travelled, till they came to the bank of a great river, 

 which was often swollen by torrents from the mountains, so that 



