the little cockles), from whence they were brought. [These
pillars are not made of Sussex marble; but of that kind which is
brought from a part of Dorsetshire called the Isle of Purbeck.- J. B.]
At every nine foot they are jointed with an ornament or band of iron
or copper. This quarrie hath been closed up and forgott time out of
mind, and the last yeare, 1680, it was accidentally discovered by
felling of an old oake; and it now serves London. (From Mr. Bushnell,
the stone-cutter.)
The old tradition is, that this church was "built upon wooll-packs",
and doubtlesse there is something in it which is now forgott. I shall
endeavour to retrieve and unriddle it by comparison. There is a tower
at Rouen in Normandie called the Butter Tower; for when it was built a
toll was layd upon all the butter that was brought to Rouen, for and
towards the building of this tower; as now there is a [duty] layd upon
every chaldron of coales towards the building of St Paul's Church,
London: so hereafter they may say that that church was built upon New-
Castle coales. In like manner it might be that heretofore, when
Salisbury Cathedral was building, which was long before wooll was
manufactured in England (the merchants of the staple sent it then in
woolpacks beyond sea, to Flanders, &c.), that an imposition might be
putt on the Wiltshire wool-packs towards the carrying on of this
magnificent structure. There is a saying also that London Bridge was
built upon wooll-packs, upon the same account.
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