NOTTINGHAM CHURCES - 1853
ST. MICHAEL's
A writer in the "Gentleman's Magazine" for April, 1796, says: "A few days ago as some labouring men were digging in a garden at Fox lane, near Nottingham, they discovered six human skeletons entire, deposited in regular order side by side, and supposed to be part of the fifteen foresters that were killed by the daring outlaw Robin Hood. [c] Near the above place anciently stood a church, built in the early days of Christianity, dedicated to St. Michael, and totally destroyed at the Reformation; yet still the parishioners on certain times repair to this place for religious purposed, it being considered as consecrated ground. In this place at different times great quantities of human bones have been found, besides several Saxon and old English coins."
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