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Title: Highways and byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds.$With illus. by Frederick L. Griggs
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Evans, Herbert Arthur, 1846-
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Publisher: London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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going in at his navel and coming out at his backbone, hefalling at the same time into a sawpit, and the sword breaking inhis body : and in the second (which we may wonder hesurvived to fight), he disarmed one of King Jamess officers, inthe College Green at Gloucester. By the end of the eighteenthcentury the Guises had left Rendcombe and returned to theirhome on the Severn, but their memory is preserved here, in thechurch, by an altar tomb, with the inscription, Sacred to thefamily of Guise distinguished during several centuries byhereditary worth by active virtue and by the parliamentaryconfidence of the county of Gloucester. The church wasbuilt in Henry VIII.s reign by Sir Edmund Tame, thethen lord of the manor. He was the son of John Tame, towhom Fairford owes its famous windows, and his initials may beseen on the corbels and in some old glass which remains in oneof the windows of the nave. Two pillars and a respond of theNorman church which he replaced are built into the northwall.
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North Ccrncy Cliurih. CH. X DAGLINGWORTH 265 According to one story the ancient glass at Rendcombe(and there is very little of it left) was the glass that remainedover after the windows at Fairford had been filled. Be this asit may, the old glass at North Cerney, the next village on ourroute, is now more interesting. I do not remember to have seena more striking figure than that of a certain bishop in a windowof the north transept here, and it would be difficult to find any-thing on so small a scale to surpass it as a triumph of skill inthis particular art. The fine old Queen Anne rectory, whichadjoins the church, bears on its outer face the arms of UniversityCollege, who are the patrons of the living. At Perrots Brook, we may, if we choose, take a by-road overthe hill on the right to Ermin Street, but evening is now draw-ing on, and it will be wiser to keep straight on and find alodging for the night in Cirencester. We cannot stay now toexplore the capital of the Cotswold : our zigza

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