Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massa chusetts. UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY, CAMBRIDGE. Lines composed by John Ladgate, a Priest in London, HISTORY OF THE ROWLEY CONTROVERSY. Ir will be requisite, before we commence our account of the Rowley Controversy, briefly to recapitulate the different notices relative to the discovery of the manuscripts which have appeared in various parts of our memoir. The Church of St. Mary of Redcliffe1 was erected in the year 1470, by William Cannynge, an opulent merchant of Bristol. An iron chest was placed in a muniment room over the northern portico, designed to receive instruments, inventories, and the parish accounts. It was ordered by the Founders that this chest should be annually inspected by the Mayor and the members of the 1 The lovers of old English architecture will experience no ordinary gratification, on learning that the clusters of miserable tenements, with the dilapidated premises by which the northeast portion of St. Mary Redcliff has for centuries been excluded from public view, are now in the course of demolition.-Bristol Mirror, March 12, 1842. |