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XI.—On the Discovery of the Remains of the Priory of Austin Friars at Ludlow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

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The early history of Ludlow has been so well detailed by Mr. Eyton in his Antiquities of Shropshire, and has been so elaborately illustrated by Mr. Wright in his volume specially devoted to the subject, that I need not enlarge on its general history in endeavouring to elucidate the recently discovered remains of the Priory of Austin Friars. I cannot, however, refrain from quoting the graphic description of Churchyarde, who, writing in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, thus describes Ludlow:—

The Town doth stand most part upon an hill,

Built well and fair, with streets both large and wide,

The houses such where strangers lodge at will,

As long as there the Council liste abide.

Both fine and clean the streets are all throughout,

With condits cleere and wholesome water springe,

And who that list to walk the Town about,

Shall find therein some rare and pleasant thinge;

But chiefly here the ayre so sweet you have,

As in no place you can no better crave.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1863

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page 174 note a Owen and Blakeway, History of Shrewsbury, vol. II. p. 451.

page 174 note b Pulson, History of the English Franciscans, 1726, p. 25.

page 175 note a Wright's History of Ludlow, 1826, vol. II. p. 174.Google Scholar

page 175 note b Eyton, Antiquities of Shropshire, vol. IV. p. 250.

page 175 note c Inquisition, 12 Edw. I. No. 52.

page 175 note d Rot. Pat. 12 Edw. I. m. 15. Eyton, vol. V. p. 299.

page 176 note a Vol. II. p. 456–458.

page 176 note b Household Roll, Abstract, p. lxxiii. Eyton, vol. V. p. 299.

page 176 note c Itinerary, ed. Hearne, 2nd edit. vol. IV. p. 92.

page 176 note d Duke's Antiquities of Shropshire, p. 63, Pat. 19 Edw. II. p. ii. m. 14. Wright in his History, 1852, at p. 204, calls this person Robert Dobyn. See Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum, vol. VI. p. 1590.

page 178 note a Wright's History of Ludlow, 1852, octavo, p. 343–45.

page 178 note b Letter quoted by Mr. Wright in his History of Ludlow, p. 348.

page 179 note a Ministers' Account, 38 Hen. VIII.; Edw. VI.; See Appendix A.

page 179 note b Collins's Peerage of England, by Sir Egerton Brydges, 1812, vol. II. 457. 8vo.

page 179 note c Parkes's MS. Collections in the British Museum. Add. MSS. 21,011, p. 137.

page 180 note a Patent Eolls, 2 Mary, part I. m. 6. See Appendix B.

page 182 note a Mr. Herbert Evans, of Ludlow, architect, has constructed with great skill a conjectural restoration of the Priory, which was exhibited to the Society when this communication was read.

page 182 note b See this plan at p. 76 of the Rev. Mackenzie Walcott's Church and Conventual Arrangement, 1861. 8vo.

page 184 note * See Shaw's Tile Pavements.