By C. E. Pouting, F.S.A. 



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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." 1 



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." 1 



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 S. 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," 1 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 

 gave 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 Eichard Colt Hoare, carried out this 

 work, but, as he was not born until 9th December, 1758, this is an 

 error; moreover, Barrett expressly mentions "Mr. Hoar." The 



Pooley's " Grosses of Gloucestershire," p. 6. 

 1 Barrett's Bristol, 



