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MEMORIALS OF RAY : 



* the house at which we put up. The cathedral church is 

 remarkable for nothing, except a preaching place or 

 church in the south wing, and the bishop's seat (in the 

 choir) of stone. It is built of a red washy stone, which 

 suffers much by the weather. In the consistory lies the 

 body of the earl of Derby, his grandfather, wrapped up 

 in lead and not interred. Bishop Bridgeman hath a 

 vault for a burying place in one of the isles of the choir. 

 By the bridge gate there is a fair square water-tower 

 lately built, which serves a great part of the city with 

 water. The water is sucked up by suckers, like those of 

 syringes, and stopped from running out again by valves, 

 and forced up into pipes by the same syringe-stopples as 

 the water is forced out of a syringe, and valves to stop it 

 from descending. At the top of the cistern there is a 

 pipe to let the air out of the pipes. 



Friday, May the 16th, from Chester to Wrexham, and 

 thence to the Molde, sixteen miles ; by the way we saw a 

 fair house of Sir John Trevor's at Gresford, and an house 

 of Mr. Wynne's called the tower. Wrexham is a very 

 fair market town, the church steeple exceeding handsome, 

 adorned with statues cut in stone ; a great number of 

 poor people about the town, especially old women. There 

 is at the Molde a large fair church of very good free-stone; 

 therein is a stone pedestal and a canopy, where, they say, 

 stood a living or quick image. It is the custom here, as 

 in other places in Wales, to strew green herbs, as rushes, 

 flags, branches of box and flowers, on the graves of dead 

 persons for one year, and then to cover them with a stone. 

 Near the Molde, in the way to Kilken, baron Edwards* 

 has an house. At Kilken, the river Allen runs under 

 ground for a little space. The channel is full of stones, 

 which I supposed lay loose to some depth without earth, 

 and the water runs under them. There is also a well 

 which (they say) ebbs and flows in the winter time ; but 

 there was no such thing to be observed at the time of our 

 being here. 



* Baron of the Exchequer of Chester. 



