Bolton Priory. FROM Bolton's old monaftic tower, The bells ring loud with gladfome power; Of stole and doublet, hood and scarf, That down the steep hills force their way, And thus in joyous mood they hie WORDSWORTH. OLTON, (fays Dugdale, carefully copied by the "Magna Britannia” of 1731,) a monaftery of regular canons of St. Augustine, founded in 1120 by Robert de Romeli, Lord of Skipton-in-Craven, and Cecilia his wife, daughter and heir of William de Meschines, Lord of Coupland in Cumberland, at Emesey, and by them fufficiently endowed. It was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and B ? |