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adorned with statues, and other carved work in stone ; 

 it has a pretty chapter-house and a large cloister, only it 

 wants the fourth side. Here are two rows of houses, on 

 each side of a long court (called Vicar's Close) for the 

 singing men, whom they call vicars. In the church are 

 the monuments of several bishops, particularly of Bishop 

 Lake and Bishop Still also of some priests and some 

 abbots, which were transferred thither from Glastonbury. 

 A large gravestone of Ina, a Saxon king, the first founder 

 of the church ; likewise the monument of one Harewell, a 

 king's bastard. There are divers good pieces of carved 

 work in this church. In the body of it, towards the 

 west end, between two pillars in the wall, is carved the 

 head of a king, with priests on each side tumbling head- 

 long ; also a bishop, with a woman on one side and a 

 child on the other, of which they tell this story : the 

 abbot who finished the body of the church after King 

 Ina's death, when the workmen were building the church, 

 gave them a plate out of his pocket which had these 

 pictures on it, and bade them cut them in stone and set 

 them in the church wall. When the abbot came and 

 saw them finished he wept, and being asked the reason, 

 he answered, when there should reign a king like to that 

 head, and a bishop sit like the other, then friers and 

 priests should be thrown down, and bishops marry. Now 

 the king's face they report to be exactly like to King 

 Henry VIII, and the bishop like the first married bishop 

 of that diocese. Dean Crichton hath a fair house here, 

 built by Doctor Burgess. From Wells we rode to 

 Glastonbury, where once again I visited the Torr, which 

 is nothing but the steeple of an ancient chmxh, now 

 quite fallen down and gone, as appears by the east side 

 of the steeple, where the church had been broken from it, 

 and by the testimony of ancient people thereabout, who 

 have seen the vestigia and rudera of the walls. On the 

 top of the Torr-hill, and all along the ascent, I observed 

 great plenty of a kind of Orobanche, the stalk whereof is 

 of a reddish purple colour, the flower one undivided 

 tubus, like the flower of the common Orobanche, of a faint 



