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Rh and arches of stone, is not easy to conceive; the very terms, indeed, seem necessarily to imply it. The same remark may be extended and applied to St. Peter's church at York, which was a spacious and magnificent fabrick of stone founded A.D. 637 by king Edwin soon after he was baptized. For that it had such porticos within, appears from Bede's relation of the death of king Edwin, who was killed in battle A.D. 633. 'His head,' says he, 'was brought to York, and afterwards carried into the church of the blessed apostle St. Peter, and deposited in St. Gregory's portico .'

"Other notices occur in the same author of churches built in or near his own time of stone, as St. Peter's in York last mentioned, and the church at Lincoln, built by Paulinus, after he had converted Blacca, prefect or governor of that city, which was a stone church of excellent workmanship, and those other churches he speaks of might have been of stone, for aught that appears to the contrary. Bede is indeed rather sparing in his de-