Identifier: historyofcastle00harg (find matches)
Title: The history of the castle, town and forest of Knaresbrough, with Harrogate, and it's medicinal springs
Year: 1809 (1800s)
Authors: Hargrove, Ely, 1741-1818
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Publisher: Knaresbrough Printed by Hargrove
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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88 HISTORY OF

appearance : Upon the -whole, it is a place where na-
ture hath elegantly disposed every ingredient she could
bestow, to form a cheerful and pleasing scene. Many
of the trees in this walk, have been marked with the
sylvan pen of rural lovers, which is a very ancient
hich is a very ancient
custom, as appears by the following passage in Pro-
pertius, written near two thousand years ago:

" Ah quoties teneras resonant mea verba sub umbras
- Scribitur & vestris. Cynthia corticibus, Eleg. xviii.

RETURNING from the Dropping-well, repassing the
bridge, and turning on the right, you arrive at

ST. ROBERTS CHAPEL.

ON one side of the entrance, under a shade of
spreading and pendent ivy, is the figure of a KNIGHT
TEMPLAT,* cut in the rock, in the act of drawing his
sword, to defend the place, from the violence of rude
intruders. The chapel is elegantly hollowed out of
the solid rock, its roof and altar, beautiful)y adorned
with gothic ornaments; behind the altar, is a large
niche, where formerly stood an image; and, on each
side, is a place for the holy-water; here are also the fi
-gures of three heads, designed, (as is supposed), for

* " Carvd on a rock, and near the door,
" An armed warrior stands;
" Who seems to guard the sacred place,
" From rude and hostile hands,"
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S^t. Roberts Chapel

KNARESBROUGH. 89

an emblematical allusion to the order of the monks of
the once neighbouring priory ; by some of whom they
were probably cut; the order was styled, Sanctee Trim-
iatis. At some distance, is another head, said to
represent that of John the baptist, to whom this
chapel is supposed to have been dedicated. In the
floor, is a cavity, where formerly some ancient relic was
deposited. This chapel is ten feet six inches long,
nine feet wide, and seven feet six inches high.

IN the year 1799> was found in the garden, near
this chapel, a gold ring, neatly ornamented on the
outside, with the figures of roses, and branches of palm ;
on the inside, was a cross, similar to that worn former-
ly on the breast, by the monks of the neighbouring
priory, with the following motto: DEO VOUS
AMOUR.

IN 1803, another ring was found in the same garden,
inscribedj ME. MEN. TO. MO. RI.

NEAR this place are several dwellings, scooped out
of the rock, that are at present, and have been inhabit-
ed by families from time immemorial ; some consisted

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