BUILDING THE WALLS OF ROSS Rota

BUILDING THE WALLS OF ROSS Rota

THE ROTA FOR BUILDING THE WALLS OF ROSS 1265AD An example of what a “Traders Association” can do when they put their minds to it. MONDAY: Vintners, mercers, merchants, drapers. Until noon. Then the priests and mariners.(1000 men)TUESDAY: Tailors &...
HE WOULD TURN IN HIS GRAVE !

HE WOULD TURN IN HIS GRAVE !

Well, he actually did, if we are to believe the reverend bishop’s account of this macabre piece of family history. Incidentally the bishop was court chaplain to Queen Victoria. SOURCE: Some Pages of my Life, William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon,...