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1842 Original Art Engraving Carlisle Cathedral, Floor Plan and Bio TG6

1842 Original Art Engraving Carlisle Cathedral, Floor Plan and Bio TG6

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~6x10 See pics for condition.

Taken from original 1842 copy of the book "Cathedral Churches of England and Wales Volume III". Has some spots and other signs of age, as it is nearly 200 years old.

1842 Original Art Engraving Carlisle Cathedral, Floor Plan and Bio TG6

The city of Carlisle is not indebted for its origin, as many others are, to the Cathedral or any other religious establishment.
Some
authors attribute it to Luel, a British prince, before the Roman invasion; but this opinion is discarded by others as resting on no certain foundation, who say, with much more reason, that it was a Roman station, built by Severus, about the same time with his famous wall.
6 That it was a place of consequence in the
time of the Romans," says Camden, « appears plainly from the various evidences of antiquity occasionally dug up, and from the frequent mention of it in the writers of those days, and even after the ravages of the Picts and Scots
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