Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales - descriptive, historical, pictorial (1890) (14783115235)

Identifier: cathedralsabbey02bonn (find matches)
Title: Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George), 1833-1923 Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George), 1833-1923
Subjects: Cathedrals Cathedrals Church buildings Church buildings
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute



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on this site, early in thesixteenth century, London was quite distinct from Westminster; and then, and fora full century after, St. Martins Lane was bordered by hedges and shaded by trees.In the vaults of St. Martins or in the graveyard many noteworthy per-sonages have been interred. Here were laid two eminent criminals—JackSheppard and Anne Turner, the latter executed in her yellow starched ruff.s,for the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury. With these we may reckon Lord Mohun,killed in the duel which ended in the Duke of Hamiltons murder. The nameof Sir Edmund Berry (or Edmondsbury) Godfrey recalls the dark epochs of Titus 31G ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. (St. Martins-in-the-Fields. Gates and tlie so-callod Popish Plot. Nell Gwynre—poor Nelly—is burled here.The ringers should have a kindly thought for her, for she left some money forthem, and a severer critic than they, Bishop Tenison, preaclied a funeral sermonfor the frail but good-hearted woman. Winston Churchill lies here, father of the
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ST. MAKTIN S-IN-TUE-FIELUS, FROM TKAFALOAK SQUARE. Great Duke of Marlborough ; poets and actors, painters and sculptors, also resthere—most of them of second rather than of first rank, except the great Roubiliac.For many years the body of John Hunter, the famous surgeon, lay in the vaults ofSt. Martins. After a persevering search the coflfin was found by Frank Buckland,and was transferred to a more honourable resting-place in Westminster Abbey. T. G. BONNEY SHERBORNE AND DORCHESTER. TWO FORSAKEN BISHOPRICS.