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“That of King James I., who had renewed the charters, which 
was placed southward ; and 
. “That of King Charles I., which was placed northward. He 
granted a new charter, and sold the castle and its dependencies to 
the city, which, to the great annoyance of the inhabitants, was 
before out of the mayor’s jurisdiction.” } 
It is interesting to compare the Carolian Gothic work, intermixed 
as it is with contemporary ornaments, with the beautiful detail of 
the fourteenth century work. The structure was further enriched 
at this time by colour and gilding, and this was repeated in 1697, 
“in such a costly manner that no cross in the kingdom is said to 
have exceeded it.” } 
‘Pooley goes on to say :—‘‘ Just thirty-six years after its restora- 
tion, in 1733, it was removed at the instance of a silversmith living 
near, who was frightened lest the Cross should fall and crush him, 
and thrown by in the Guildhall as a thing of no value, until at 
length it was rescued from oblivion by Alderman Price and a few 
other gentlemen, and, with the approbation of the Dean and 
Chapter, re-erected in the centre of College Green, a spot consecrated 
by the labours of Jordan, a co-missionary of 8. Augustine, who 
there first preached Christianity to the Anglo-Saxons more than a 
thousand years before.” 
In 1763, “it was at length found that this beautiful structure, 
by intersecting one of the walks, interrupted gentlemen and ladies 
from walking eight or ten abreast,” and on this poor excuse the 
Cross was again taken down and the stones laid by in a corner of 
the Cathedral, where they lay for some time until Dean Barton 
gaye them to Mr. Henry Hoare, of Stourton, who, in the month of 
August, 1766, removed them to his seat of Stourhead, and proceeded 
_ to re-erect the Cross on the spot it now occupies at a cost of £300. 
; Pooley states that his son, Sir Richard Colt Hoare, carried out this 
work, but, as he was not born until 9th December, 1758, this is an 
error; moreover, Barrett expressly mentions “ If. Hoar.’’ The 
1 Pooley’s “ Orosses of Gloucestershire,” p. 6. 
' Barrett’s Bristol. 
