. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . BOW CHURCH : THE TOWER. 310 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [Bow Fitzosbert, commonly called William of the Longbeard. An order was issued forhis arrest; he seized an axe and felled the first soldier who advanced to seizehim, and taking refuge with a few adherents in the tower of St. Mary-le-Bow, sum-moned his adherents to rise.[Archbishop] Hubert, how-ever, who had alreadyflooded the city with troops,with bold contempt of theright of sanctuary set fireto the tower and forcedWilliam to surrender. Aburgh
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . BOW CHURCH : THE TOWER. 310 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [Bow Fitzosbert, commonly called William of the Longbeard. An order was issued forhis arrest; he seized an axe and felled the first soldier who advanced to seizehim, and taking refuge with a few adherents in the tower of St. Mary-le-Bow, sum-moned his adherents to rise.[Archbishop] Hubert, how-ever, who had alreadyflooded the city with troops,with bold contempt of theright of sanctuary set fireto the tower and forcedWilliam to surrender. Aburghers son, whose fatherhe had slain, stabbed himas he came forth. Againin the year 1284 the rightof sanctuary was violated,when one Lawrence Ducketwas slain, who had takenrefuge here after woundinga man. But on this occasionthe offenders were severelypunished, sixteen of them being hanged, and the church was placed under aninterdict till it had been duly purified. A balcony overlooking Cheapside is a memorial—in a certain sense a sur-vival, like an aborted organ in the body—of a stone building which once greatlydarkened the church. This was built b
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