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cd ill ruins for upwards of feventy years, 

 when they were rebuilt by Bifhop Red- 

 man.* 



During the protedtorfhip of Oliver Crom- 

 well, the poft road lying through this place, 

 the palace and cathedral were much in- 

 jured by the poft-mafter, who had his 

 office in the former, and made great havoc 

 in the choir of the cathedral, ufmg the 

 font as a trough for watering his horfes, 

 and, by way of venting his fpleen upon the 

 clergy, tying up calves in the Bimop's 

 throne. -f- 



Mr. Grofe relates a curious miracle faid 

 to have been wrought at this place : He 

 fays that fometime ago a mark ufed to be 

 fhewn on a black ftone in the pavement of 

 the ftreet, about the middle of the hill be- 

 tween the two churches ; this, he was in- 



* Tanner's Notitia. 



t Supplement to Grofe's Antiquities. 



formed, 



