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too, he placed upon his walls. A graved cross 

 patee, overset and lying prostrate, typifies the 

 Templars' fall ; while to its left is seen the cross- 

 let of the Hospitallers, placed upright. Some 

 crudely executed figures, possibly crescents, 

 seem identical with those in London's Temple 

 Church. 



There is no potence here. The open centre 

 to the roof, the bathing-basin on the floor, would 

 have necessitated special arrangements which 

 the builder evidently did not care to make. 



This Garway dovecote is described with a 

 minuteness which will not often be repeated 

 in the book, but which is surely deserved by the 

 present example on account of its undoubted 

 age, the excellence of its very typical workman- 

 ship, the good state of preservation in which it 

 remains, and the unusual provision of a bath- 

 ing-basin. 



If Garway, for the dovecote-hunter, be the 

 boast of Herefordshire, Bosbury, lying four 

 miles from Ledbury on the county's eastern 

 border, is its shame. At this village there stood, 

 in the time of Bishop Cantilupe and of his chap- 

 lain and subsequent successor, Richard Swin- 



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