St Mary's Guildhall, Lincoln, & St Peter-at-Gowts in 1784—Guildhall built as royal townhouse outside city in 1150s?pic.twitter.com/UQmXsgeBIa
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St Mary's Guildhall, Lincoln, & St Peter-at-Gowts in 1784—Guildhall built as royal townhouse outside city in 1150s?pic.twitter.com/UQmXsgeBIa
Another surviving 12thC building in Lincoln is the Jew's House, built c. 1170 with a first floor hall (my pic)pic.twitter.com/y51TAshyCH
Once owned by Belaset, daughter of Solomon of Wallingford in 13thC; she was hanged in 1290.. http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=326716&sort=4&search=all&criteria=bow%20stone&rational=q&recordsperpage=10&p=4&move=n&nor=71&recfc=0 …pic.twitter.com/S818OUks8b
Wow, hanged for coin clipping! Coins were serious business...
So it would seem... or seen as a useful excuse? :-/
And given the historical tendency to link Jews with dishonest financial dealings, it's suspect, at best.
Indeed :(
A contemporary account of King Stephen ignoring the Lincoln superstition, by Henry of Huntingdon, a canon of Lincolnpic.twitter.com/b7bqBP1HFY
Either that, or he just had common sense!
Interestingly, Lincoln's medieval High Bridge has 2 arches on Speed's plan of 1603-11 (pic=https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/567453621775639281/ …)pic.twitter.com/xFwoyAI1zz
@CatherineEsse navigation during the summer months when the water level dropped. Might the other arch have been removed then?
? assume other evidence re bridge history exists? - another possibility is extra arch shown = artistic licence
Arches mentioned in the plural in 1561 & said to be once 8 of them...!
would make sense, had always imagined that whole area to be wet/marshy, w/Witham much less canalised than now
If helps, this is the suggested landscape in Roman era from fab City by the Pool (2003)pic.twitter.com/hDqJYVaLt4
ah yes :) thank you, as I'd envisaged - may even have read the book and forgotten :D
Thanks to both of you for the knowledge you've shared! I've been prowling the streets via Google Street View!
Similar superstitions recorded of Leicester and Oxford, but later in date (13th-15thC)---derivative? http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/cdm/ref/collection/p15407coll6/id/16622 …
oh, I'm sure Lincoln was the original, and worthy of emulation! ;)
I'm beginning to suspect this to be the case... ;)
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