The history of the worthies of England who for parts and learning have been eminent in the several counties : together with an historical narrative of the native commodities and rarities in each county / endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.

The Buildings.

The Cathedrall in this City answereth the Character which a forraign* 1.1 Author giveth it, Templum opere & magnitudine toto orbe memorandum, the work of John Romaine, Willam Melton, and John Thoresbury. Successive Arch-bishops thereof. The Family of the Percyes contributing Timber, of the Valvasors, Stone thereunto.

Appending to this Cathedrall is the Chapter-house, such a Master piece of Art that this Golden verse (understand it written in Golden Letters) is ingraved therein.

Ut Rosa Flos Florum sic est Domus ista Domorū.

Of Flowers that grow the Flower's the Rose, All Houses so this House out-goes.

Now as it follows not that the Usurping Tulip is better then the Rose, because prefer∣red by some Forraign Fancies before it; so is it as inconsequent that Mod•…•…h Italian Churches are better then this Reverent Magnificent Structure, because some humorous Travailors are so pleased to esteem them.

One may justly wonder, how this Church, whose Edifice Woods (designed by the Devotion of former ages, for the repair thereof) were lately sold, should consist in so good a condition. But as we read,* 1.2 that, God made all those to pity his Children, who carried them captive; so I am informed, that some who had this Cath•…•…drall in their command, favourably reflected hereon, and not onely permitted but procured the re∣pair thereof; and no doubt he doth sleep the more comfortably, and will die the more quietly for the same.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The Writer of the life of Aeneas Syl•…•…ius or Pope Pius secundus.
• * 1.2

  Psal. 106. 46.