London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and Its Neighbourhood: To Thirty Miles Extent, from an Actual Perambulation, Volume 5W. Stratford, 1808 - London (England) |
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... chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr . " Archbishop Baldwin , who had intended to build a college of secular canons at ... chapel , however , seems to indicate a more early period , the windows resembling those of the Temple church in London ...
... chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr . " Archbishop Baldwin , who had intended to build a college of secular canons at ... chapel , however , seems to indicate a more early period , the windows resembling those of the Temple church in London ...
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... chapel . A marble slab marks the spot , on which is the following inscription : " Corpus Matthæi Archiepiscopi tandêm hic quiesit . ” When archbishop Sancroft arrived at the primacy , he placed the old monument in the vestibule of the ...
... chapel . A marble slab marks the spot , on which is the following inscription : " Corpus Matthæi Archiepiscopi tandêm hic quiesit . ” When archbishop Sancroft arrived at the primacy , he placed the old monument in the vestibule of the ...
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... chapel into a dancing room , de- molished the great hall , and , in other respects , reduced the venerable pile to a ruinous condition . Archbishop Juxon rebuilt the great hall , at the expence of 10,500l . and the archbishops Sheldon ...
... chapel into a dancing room , de- molished the great hall , and , in other respects , reduced the venerable pile to a ruinous condition . Archbishop Juxon rebuilt the great hall , at the expence of 10,500l . and the archbishops Sheldon ...
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... Chapel ( some of the duke of Norfolk's family being buried there ) and that of the south Leigh's Chapel , Sir John Leigh , son of Ralph Leigh , Esq . lord of the manor of Stockwell , and his lady , having been buried there . The ...
... Chapel ( some of the duke of Norfolk's family being buried there ) and that of the south Leigh's Chapel , Sir John Leigh , son of Ralph Leigh , Esq . lord of the manor of Stockwell , and his lady , having been buried there . The ...
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... Chapel lyeth the Body of Sir Peter Rich , Knight , late Alderman of the City of London : He died , the 26th of August 1692 , in the 62d year of his Age . Near his Grave 12 of his Children , who died before him , lye buried In Howard's ...
... Chapel lyeth the Body of Sir Peter Rich , Knight , late Alderman of the City of London : He died , the 26th of August 1692 , in the 62d year of his Age . Near his Grave 12 of his Children , who died before him , lye buried In Howard's ...
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Page 419 - There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns ; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle, And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner...
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Page 59 - Coorooraa, who departed this life on the 27th of December 1784, aged 20 years: this stone is inscribed by the Honourable United...
Page 353 - He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection or incidental meditation.
Page 19 - As by their choice collections may appear Of what is rare, in land, in sea, in air. Whilst they (as Homer's Illiad in a nut) A world of wonders in one closet shut. These famous Antiquarians that had been Both gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen Transplanted now themselves, sleep here, and when Angels shall with their trumpets waken men And fire shall purge the world, these hence shall rise, And change this garden for a Paradise.
Page 268 - Lo! where this silent marble weeps, A Friend, a Wife, a Mother sleeps: A Heart, within whose sacred cell The peaceful Virtues lov'd to dwell. Affection warm, and Faith sincere, And soft Humanity were there. In agony, in death resign'd, She felt the Wound she left behind.
Page 303 - In one of the many curious pamphlets of that period he is described as "a notable man at a thanksgiving dinner, having terrible long teeth and a prodigious stomach, to turn the archbishop's chapel at Croydon into a kitchen ; also to swallow up that palace and lands at a morsel.