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Chronicle of Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall
The Chronicle of Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall (Chronicon Anglicanum) is an indispensable medieval history that brings to life centuries of English and European affairs through the eyes of a learned Cistercian monk. Ralph of Coggeshall, abbot of the Abbey of Coggeshall in Essex in the early 13th century, continued and expanded his community’s chronicle, documenting events from the Norman Conquest of 1066 into the tumultuous reign of King Henry III. Blending eyewitness testimony, careful compilation, and the monastic commitment to record-keeping, this chronicle offers a rare narrative of political intrigue, royal power struggles, and social upheaval in England and beyond. Ralph’s work captures the reigns of pivotal figures such as Richard I and King John, providing invaluable insights into their characters, decisions, and the forces that shaped medieval rule. More than a simple annal, Chronicon Anglicanum conveys the texture of medieval life and governance, making it a rich source for scholars and readers fascinated by English history, monastic authorship, and the shaping of the medieval world.
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Archaeologia Volume 8 Section XXXIV is in Archaeologia Volume 8.
Description of the Druid Temple [La Hogue Bie [Map]] lately discovered on the top of the Hill near St. Hillary in Jersey. Communicated by Mr. Molseworth. Read January 11, 1787.
It is sixty-six feet in circumference, composed of forty-five large stones, measuring seven feet in height, six in breadth, four in thickness, containing four perfect lodges [or cells] and one destroyed. The supposed entrance in it may be called a subterraneous passage, faces the East, and measures fifteen feet in length, four feet two inches and a half in breadth from the inside of the two outward pillars or stones, in height two feet, each pillar being one foot nine inches and a half thick.
The inside of the passage measures five feet three inches in breadth, four feet four inches in height, and the first covering stone three feet in thickness; it gradually decreases the length of the fifteen feet before-mentioned.
The vacancy on the North side, which appears to have been the real vacancy, measures in breadth fix feet nine inches.
The greatest lodge, facing nearly the East, or subterraneous passage, measures, both in depth and length, four feet three inches; the next on the left four feet in breadth, four feet three inches in length, and three feet feven inches in height. The distance from one to the other is two feet sixteen inches; the third, at the distance of five feet nine inches from the second, measures in breadth two feet sixteen inches, in length two feet nineteen, in height four feet.
The subterraneous passage in the inside of the temple, describing a perfect lodge, distant from the third ten feet, and the fourth joining both East: and North passages, in breadth measures two feet four inches, and two feet one-eighth in depth. The eastern cavity is still filled up with the same rubbish that covered the temple.
Two medals were found in this temple, one of the emperor Claudius, and the other so worn by time as to render it unintelligible.
About fifty yards South from the temple are five places in the form of our graves, masoned on every side, but not paved, and lying E. and W. A done quite alone lies five feet from the subterraneous passage.