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ritual ‘‘ad usum Sarum.” In the reign of Stephen the peace 
between the ecclesiastics and the military was broken, and 
Bishop Poore obtained from Pope Honorius III. leave to move 
. his Cathedral to the plain, King Henry III. granting a charter 
1218 to the new city. The same Bishop laid the foundation stone 
of the present beautiful Cathedral in 1220 and the whole 
population seems to have migrated with the clergy. The last 
remains of the old Church were pulled down in the time of 
Edward III., 1331, to finish Salisbury Spire, and the walls served 
as a quarry to build Fisherton old county gaol and other houses 
up to 1608. 
Leland, in the reign of Henry VIIL., visited the site and reported, 
“there was not a single house left within or without Old 
Saresbyri,” but the deserted place retained its privilege of 
returning two Members of Parliament until the first Reform 
Bill of 1832. 
Having walked round the ridge of the central level, which 
resembles somewhat the crater of an extinct volcano, the vast 
trenches were passed by narrow raised pathways, and the brakes. 
started for the 7 miles’ drive to Stonehenge, resting awhile at the 
George Inn at Amesbury to water the horses. Amesbury, situated 
on the Avon, once possessed a famous nunnery founded by Queen 
Elfrida in 980 to expiate the murder of her stepson King Edward 
at Corfe; a part of the monastic Church exists in the present. 
Parish Church. The edifice was restored by Sir Edm. Antrobus. 
in 1852 and is a fine large cruciform building of Early English 
date with later windows of Decorated style in the south side. 
Passing by this Church in a mile the earthworks, absurdly called 
Vespasian’s Camp, are on the right, enclosing a space of 39 acres. 
of triangular shape, doubtless a work of British age, but possibly 
it may have been temporarily occupied by the Romans in their 
expeditions. 
A short mile further, and on an uncultivated portion of Salisbury 
Plain, stand the gigantic monoliths of Stonehenge, some erect, 

