1275. 90007. in all have been spent. The library contains 95 volumes. The rebels compelled their Cavalier prisoners and the wives of the sequestered clergy to warm themselves, on a bitter winter's day, at a fire kindled at Cardiff with the books from Llandaff.

Llandaff numbers among its bishops SS. Dubricius, at whose desire Merlin translated the Giant's Dance to Stonehenge; Cymeliauc, seized by the Danes in his church, and ransomed for 407. by the king; Kitchen, "who for ever spoiled the good meat of Llandaff;" Owen, who died in his chair at the news of Laud's death; Beaw, who fought for the king, and whom Tenison reminded that “at his age he should think of but one translation—to a seat above;" industrious Godwin; orthodox Marsh; princely Barrington and Van Mildert, and Watson, "the self-taught divine," who excused himself to the sceptic Gibbon for writing the book which drew forth George the Third's exclamation, "Apology for the Bible !—I never knew it wanted one," for thirty years non-resident, so that he could boast in his Westmoreland retirement, that, with the poorest bishopric in the king's books, he was the richest prelate in his dominions.

The palace is Bishop's Court, Llandaff.

Arms: Sa. two pastoral staffs in saltier or and arg. On a chief az. three mitres.

Man.

THERE was an old tradition, that a mermaid along the shore meeting a young Manxman of great beauty declared to him her love, and, in revenge for his expression of revolt and disgust, obscured the Island and Cathedral with a veil of mist which made all vessels coming to it wander up and down upon its seas or wrecked them on the cliffs.

The ruined Cathedral of St. German, in Peel Castle, St. Patrick's Isle, has a position equal to the famous rock of

Cashel. The combination of military and ecclesiastical structures, within one enclosure, occurs at Dover, Porchester, and Exeter. It is a small cross church, with a short central tower, which has on the south-west angle a square belfry turret. The walls of red sandstone, and the general outline, give it a likeness to Carlisle. The CHOIR resembles St. Bees. The north and east windows in the SOUTH TRANSEPT are Decorated; on the west side is a lancet. On the west side of the TRANSEPT is the chief entrance ftom the sea, with a holy-water stoup. On the north side of the NAVE are two windows, Decorated. On the south side are four arches for a contemplated aisle. The east end resting on the edge of the precipice has a beautiful though small plain triplet, Early English. The five side-lancets are tall, but not acutely pointed; the bays are divided from each other by flat buttresses: on the north side are two arched recesses for tombs; on the south is a door to the crypt. The CENTRAL TOWER is Transitional Early English, or Early Decorated. The TRANSEPTS are also

Decorated. Beneath the CHOIR is a fine CRYPT with barrel vaulting, diagonal ribbed, springing from thirteen dwarf shafts. In this desolate dungeon, reached by thirty stepsthe dead above, the booming of the sullen sea below piercing through the crevices of the floor of rock-Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester, on a charge of witchcraft was imprisoned, 1440-1454. Her spirit after death was supposed to take the form of a spectre hound, the Mauthe Dhoog of Peverel of the Peak. In this church Bishop Hildesley was enthroned. Bishop Simon of Orkney, 1232-49, was the founder of the Cathedral, he and Bishops Mark of Galloway, Hesketh, Phillips, Parr, and Rutter were buried in it.

DIMENSIONS OF THE CHURCH IN FEET.

The Arms, Three legs conjoined at the knee, with the motto, "Quocunque jeceris stabit,"-were given by King Alexander of Scotland after his reduction of the island, 1266. They are now placed under an image of St. German, standing in a canopied porch, holding a church in his dexter hand

Cardinal Fleury, from respect to Bishop Wilson's virtues, forbade the French privateers to make any descent on the island:

That saintly name once had a thrilling tongue

Which pleaded for thy sea-encircled strand,
And still doth plead.

The island, originally subject to the King of Northumberland, was in the hands of the Danes or Norwegians, 1065-1266; the Scots then held it till 1334, when William Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, conquered it. Sir William Scrope held it 1393-1399; Henry, Earl of Northumberland, 1399-April 6, 1406; Stanleys, Earls of Derby, from that date to 1736; and the Dukes of Atholl, 1736— 1763; but in 1825 (6 Geo. IV., c. 35) the right of nomination of the bishop was at last purchased by the crown.

Among the bishops occur SS. Amphibalus and Germanus, who was consecrated, 447, by St. Patrick; Wilmund, who became a buccaneer, and was blinded by the Scots; John, who was burned accidentally to death; Salisbury, who translated the Holy Bible into Welsh; Philip, who made a Manx version of the Sacred Scriptures; Rutter, who fought in the defence of Latham House; Barrow, founder of King William's College; Wilson, who, like Fisher of Rochester, refused translation in his words: "Because my spouse is poor, shall I desert her?" and whose benediction was craved by a London mob; Hildesley, who sang his Nunc Dimittus when he had finished his Manx translation of the Prayer Book; luxurious Richmond, the first bishop who used a sedan chair in going to church; and Baron Auckland.

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Manchester.

MANCHESTER, the Mancenion of the Britons, from “ Main,” stone, its hill of quarries, is the manufacturing metropolis of England, the great workshop familiar to Indian, African, Turk, and Tartar by its fabrics. As natives or residents it claims Dr. Dee, the necromancer; Byron, Miss Jewsbury, T. K. Harvey, and Charles Swain, poets; the first Sir Robert Peel; the Duke of Bridgewater; Dr. Whitaker, E. Ogden, W. H. Ainsworth, De Quincey, and Dr. Dalton, author of the Atomic Theory. It is situated in a plain of great extent, girdled by a barrier of hills, from which the view of flaming furnaces, canal and railway, great flourishing towns and small villages, with patches of moss-land, and the murmur of a dense population, is, perhaps, the most extraordinary and busy in the kingdom. At the Palace-Inn in 1714 the Chevalier lodged. The Chetham Library was founded, 1508, in the College built by Delawarr in 1422; the hall, with dais and a dole window, a double cloister, parlour, kitchen, and dormitory, remain.

It is the office of sacred architecture to replace the loss of the garden and pleasant field in cities, and possess us with quietness of spirit, solemn and yet tender. It must be a superficial mind that can overlook the advantages of a cathedral to a busy commercial city; the permanent gifts which it abundantly bestows, and the influence it constantly exerts by its daily offering of prayer, its recall of worldly anxious hearts to a love of grandeur and beauty, the assistance and strength it affords to the lively recollection of GOD, His sublimity and mystery. Its quiet solemn voice of sober reason reaches the heart at its better hours, inspires respect for our ancestors, and thus overcomes a natural propensity to overestimate our own times and acts, and remind men how much of all they most value was once without grudging sacrificed for a higher cause. The cathedral of Manchester is in its present state unworthy of the wealth of its merchant

princes, although a notable evidence of former piety, when it was the sole ornament of a town scarcely larger than an ordinary hamlet.

Sir George Head, in his Home Tour in the summer of 1835, said he heard the publication in this church of 197 banns of marriage on a single occasion. Col. Birch took away, after the siege by Lord Strange, the deeds of the college to London, where they were destroyed in the great fire of 1666. In 1642 the rebels used it as a storehouse during the siege by Lord Derby. In 1649 it was converted into a conventicle. It was by statute 1540-1 constituted a place of sanctuary.

Christ Church at Manchester, on the Strangeways Road, close to the Irwell, which serves for the twofold purpose of Cathedral and parish church, is composed of a NAVE of six bays and three aisles, two on the north and one to the south, with lateral chantries opening into that on the south. The south-west CHANTRY is St. George's, the south-east ST. NICHOLAS' OR TRAFFORD; on the northwest is STRANGEWAY'S CHANTRY; on the north-east is ST. JAMES'S CHANTRY, which was a transept. The CHOIR of five bays has aisles and eastern procession-path; and on the north ST. JOHN BAPTIST's or the DERBY CHAPEL; and on the south JESUS' CHANTRY, with the OLDHAM CHANTRY on the north-east side. The CHAPTER-HOUSE, which is octagonal, with lights only to the south on four sides, is to the east of the former chantry. There is an insignificant eastern LADY CHAPEL, called Byron's. The TOWER, as at Bangor, is at the west end.

The College was founded by Thomas, Lord de la Warr, in the fifteenth century; disolved 1547, but refounded under Queen Elizabeth and Charles I. Ralph Langley, warden, in 1465 commenced, and Bishop Stanley in 1490 completed, the NAVE and aisles; ST. JAMES'S CHANTRY, formerly the north transept, was built by John Huntingdon, 1440; the STRANGEWAYS' CHANTRY was built in 1508; and ST. NICHOLAS,' founded by Robert Chetham, was built by Sir George West; and the CHAPTER-HOUSE, by Bishop Stanley, about 1500, who added the clerestory roof and