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Gentleman's Magazine 1858 part 2 p.482
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Carlisle Cathedral
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The three travellers were sorely disappointed at their next cathedral stage, CARLISLE, "nothing so fair and stately as those we had seen." There were sixteen petty canons and singing-men; there are now two minor canons and eight lay vicars. The worthy Lieutenant now fairly looses his temper:- "It is like a great wild country church, and as it appeared outwardly, so was it inwardly, neither beautified nor adorned one whit. The organs and voices did well agree, the one being like a shrill bagpipe, the other like the Scottish tone; the sermon in the like accent. The communion was administered and received in a wild and irreverent manner." Merry Carlisle had not forgotten the days of forays, when the Black Wills of the Border carried off cattle from under its castle walls.
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