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The Bulletin
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Fix this text“The Bulletin,’Wol. 74—No. 3816
Fix this textWednesday, April 1, 1953
Fix this textPrice 9d.
Fix this textRegistered at the General Post Office, Sydney. N.S.W., Australia, for Transmission by Post as a,Newspaper
Fix this textSeppelts
Fix this textThe Fort-like
Fix this textBishop’s Palace of Wells
Fix this textAT the foot of the Mendip Hills in
Fix this textSomerset is the ancient city of Wells,
Fix this textwhich contains one of the smallest, but
Fix this textone of the most beautiful, of English
Fix this textcathedrals. Its West facade with over
Fix this textsix hundred statues is the finest example
Fix this textof Early English (1190-1280) architecture
Fix this textin England The buildings round the
Fix this textCathedral, particularly the Vicar’s Close,
Fix this texta street of medieval houses, and the
Fix this textBishop’s Palace are no less remarkable.
Fix this textThe Palace and its gardens occupy an
Fix this textarea of seven acres, protected from former
Fix this textenemies by crenellated walls and a moat
Fix this textfed by wells gushing from secret depths
Fix this textbelow which give the city its name. In
Fix this textearlier days the Bishops had sole control
Fix this textover the city’s water supply, and for this
Fix this textreason they sometimes coerced the
Fix this textcitizens, but in the fifteenth century
Fix this textBishop Beckington built a conduit to the
Fix this textmarket-place for their use. The fortifica-
Fix this texttions surrounding the Palace were built
Fix this textin the thirteenth century by Bishop Ralph,
Fix this textwho probably found that the wearing of
Fix this texta mitre was as uneasy a headgear as a
Fix this textcrown. In those medieval days the
Fix this textChurch was indeed a church militant and
Fix this textbishops knew the art of war better than
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Fix this textThe Palace, as it exists today, was
Fix this textmainly the work of Bishop Jocelin
Fix this text(1206-42) and these ancient buildings in-
Fix this textcorporate a banqueting hall, picture
Fix this textgallery and chapel. Guarding the
Fix this textentrance is a gatehouse with a drawbridge
Fix this textacross the wide moat in which the swans
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Fix this textto their habit of ringing a bell when
Fix this texthungry. For nearly a hundred years the
Fix this textswans at Wells have rung for their
Fix this textdinner, ever since the days when the first
Fix this textswan was taught to pull the bell-rope by
Fix this textthe daughter of a Victorian Bishop of
Fix this textWells. The original swan is preserved
Fix this textin the city museum and its descendants
Fix this texthave never failed to carry on the tradi-
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