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Bishop William Alley’s statutes for the Cathedral, 1561
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist William Alley (1510-1570) was Bishop of Exeter from 1560 until his death in April 1570. He was born in Buckinghamshire,…
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Jeremy Taylor’s Life of Christ
By Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian If you are a regular reader of Cathedral Life you will likely recall this beautiful image or others like it.…
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The Last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury
By Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian Reginald Pole (1500-1558) was Dean of Exeter Cathedral from 1527 to 1537. He didn’t actually spend much time here; in…
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The Old College of the Vicars Choral
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist These two illustrations show the entrance to the old College of the Vicars Choral in the Cathedral Close. The watercolour…
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How to Tell the Time
By Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian British Science Week (8-17 March) is a ten-day celebration of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. We are celebrating this year’s…
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From the Archives: St David’s Church
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist Saint David, whose feast day falls on 1 March, was a 6th century Welsh bishop best known as a patron saint of…
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‘Sacriledges, Prophanations, and Plunderings’
Guest piece by Elizabeth Smith Was Exeter Cathedral severely vandalised during the English Civil War in the 1640s? Many books and commentaries claim that it…
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This England
By Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian Shakespeare’s play, The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, details the final years of King Richard II who…
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Martian Herbs
By Emma Laws, Cathedral Librarian Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654), an English botanist and astrologer, published The English Physitian in 1652. A pharmacist by trade, he offered…
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The Leakey Watercolour
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist This pen and ink drawing with watercolour pigments is known at the Cathedral as the ‘Leakey Watercolour’. It shows the…