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was no more than a foote path before, though now it be become the 
maine Roade from Gloucester to London.” Probably it was called 
the bone-house from the practice of throwing into it any bones which 
might be dug up when a grave was made in the churchyard. 
The Manor of Bisley was granted to Edmond Mortimer in the 
reign of Edward I., and it was probably during the lifetime of 
Edmond’s son Roger—who lived in the reigns of Edward I., Edward II. 
and Edward IIJ.—that the church was built, for there are crowned 
heads carved in stone on either side of the east window, and from 
appearance of them they are thought to represent Edward II. and his 
Queen Isabella. Edward II. reigned from 1307 to 1327, so we may 
suppose that the church was being built and that the chancel was 
finished about that time. We cannot tell the date of the pillars in 
the nave. The tower and spire were apparently built about a century 
later. The stone figure of a crusader which lies outside the south 
wall of the chancel is very probably the effigy of one of the 
Mortimers. 
ALLYPLIATY. PARK 
Having been driven to Lypiatt Park (Plate XXVI, fig. 1), the 
Members were accorded a cordial welcome by Sir John and Lady 
Dorington. The sun was shining brightly, and it was generally 
conceded that the views to be obtained from the charming grounds 
are of the greatest possible beauty. The visit was timed too early 
for the rich wealth of autumnal tints which in late October invest the 
landscape with so much opulent grandeur, but already the mellow 
light diffused over tree, shrub, flower-bed, and stone-work of the old 
house and chapel was sufficiently suggestive of waning summer, and 
the temporary cessation of such excursions as that undertaken on 
Tuesday." 
Before conducting his visitors into the house, Sir John pointed 
out some of its architectural features, and recalled the part the house 
played in the time of the Civil War of the seventeenth century. A 
hole in the wall near the northern door was pointed out as a reminder 
of those stirring times, but it seemed difficult to imagine cannon balls 
hurtling through space at this fine old mansion, as indeed the whole 
story of the struggle between King and Parliament is invested with a 
sense of mystery and weirdness when studied in the light of history. 
‘But that depression caused by the cannon ball carries sure and swift 
conviction to the mind, as does the bullet mark in an Elizabethan 
mansion at Newbury of the escape of King Charles at the time of the 
second battle near that town. Charles was the billet intended for 
that bullet, but another fate awaited him of even greater tragic 
significance. 
During the civil war Lypiatt was garrisoned for the Parliament 
by Colonel Massey, but was taken in 1642 by Sir Jacob Ashley, 
from Cirencester. This was an easy task, as the house was unfortified 
1 See Sir John Dorington, Trans., Bristol and Gloucestershire Arch. Soc., vol. 
