Melbourne Church, Derbyshire.

" and arches of {tone, is not eafy to conceive ; the very terms, " indeed, feem neceiTarily to imply it. The fame remark may " be extended and applied to St. Peter s church at York, which tf was a fpacious and magnificent fabrick of ftone founded A. D. " 637 by king Edwin foon after he was baptized [ "]. For that " it had fuch porticos within, appears from Bedes relation! of " the death of king Edwin, who was killed in battle A. D. 633. " 'His head,' fays he, ' was brought to York, and afterwards car- " ' ried into the church of the bleiled apoille St. Peter, and de- " 'pofited in St. Gregorys portico '[*].' " Other notices occur in the fame author of churches built in " or near his own time of ftone, as St. Peter s in York laft men- " tioned, and the church at Lincoln, built by P animus, after he had " converted Blacca, prefect or governor of that city, which was. a " {tone church of excellent workmanfhip [ v ] ; and thofe other " churches he fpeaks of might have been of ftone, for aught that " appears to the contrary. Bede is indeed rather fparing in his de- > r> LT [ 7 ] " Mox ut baptifma confecutus eft (ydwinus) majorem et auguftiorcm dc la- u pide fabricare curavit bafilicam." Bedae Hift. Eccl. Lib. ii. cap. 14. . [ 8 ] " Adhtum eft caput ^Edwini Regis Eburacum, et inlatum poftea in ecclefiam " B. Apoftoli Petri ; pofitum eft in porticu S. Papae Gregorii. Bedas Hift. EetP. " Lib. ii. cap. 20. Mr. Collier cites this paffage from Bede, and feems to have adopt- " ed the common error of taking porticus for a building withoutfide the church ; and " thence falfely infers, that it was not the cuftom of that age to bury within-fide. King " * Edwin's head (fays he), was depofited in St. Gregory's porch ; from whence we " may probably conclude, that his children before mentioned, who are faid to have < been buried in the church, were only buried in the porch, the cuftom of that age " going no further." Collier's Ch. Hift. Vol. I. p. 86. [ 9 ] " In qua civitate et ecclefiam operis egregii de lapide fecit." Bedse Hift. Lib. ii. cap. 14. VOL. XIII. Q q fcription