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The Bulletin
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Fix this text‘The Bulletin,” Vol. 77 No. 3990
Fix this textWednesday, August 1, 1956
Fix this textPrice 1/-
Fix this textRegistered at the General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, for transmission by Post as a Newspaper.
Fix this textWORCESTER CATHEDRAL,
Fix this textWHERE KING JOHN’S EFFIGY
Fix this textRECALLS HIS EVIL REIGN
Fix this textTHE city of Worcester stands beside
Fix this textthe River Severn, and its name is
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Fix this textfor its magnificent Cathedral, but also
Fix this textfor its products, which are household
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Fix this textThe huge west window of Worcester
Fix this textCathedral overlooks with benign grace
Fix this textthe well-known cricket ground on which
Fix this textit is the habit of visiting Test teams to
Fix this textopen their season. From the top of the
Fix this textCathedral tower Charles II watched the
Fix this textfinal defeat of the Royalist forces in
Fix this text1651,.-two years after the execution of
Fix this texthis father, whose cause Worcester was
Fix this textthe first to support and the last to
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Fix this textThe Cathedral had a monastic origin
Fix this textin the seventh century, but the oldest
Fix this textparts of the existing building date from
Fix this text1084, since when it has acquired many
Fix this textadditions, suffered much wanton destruc-
Fix this texttion and pillage by soldiers of the
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Fix this textOutstanding features of the interior
Fix this textwhich shows many architectural styles—-
Fix this textNorman, Early English and Perpen-
Fix this textdicular —are the beautiful Perpendicular
Fix this textNorth Porch ; the magnificent chantry
Fix this textof Prince Arthur who, had he lived,
Fix this textwould have barred Henry VIII’s way to
Fix this textthe throne; the delicate Worcester
Fix this textCrucifix of 18th-century Italian work-
Fix this textmanship ; and the tomb of King John,
Fix this textshown in the accompanying illustration.
Fix this textThis elaborate tomb, which stands in the
Fix this textPresbytery, is surmounted by an effigy of
Fix this textthe King. He was born in 1166, the
Fix this textyoungest son of Henry 11. He succeeded
Fix this textto the throne in 1199, and his tyranny
Fix this textat home, coupled with the defeat of his
Fix this textforces at Bouvines (1214), and the loss
Fix this textof Poitou aroused the barons to revolt.
Fix this textOn June 15, 1215, they forced the King
Fix this textto grant Magna Charta, the first
Fix this textdeclaration of the rights of the citizen.
Fix this textNo. 309: the Homeland Series by the House of Seppelt.
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