. Memoirs of the city of London and its celebrities. during the period thecolumn was in course of erection, The compliments paid to Charles, both in thebas-relief and in the inscriptions, are not greaterthan he deserved. His personal exertions duringthe progress of the conflagration, and the interestwhich he subsequently took in the sufferings ofhis subjects, were certainly highly to his , had the plans been adopted for rebuild-ing the city which emanated from the genius ofSir Christopher Wren, and which were warmlysupported by his royal master, London wouldunquestionably have b
. Memoirs of the city of London and its celebrities. during the period thecolumn was in course of erection, The compliments paid to Charles, both in thebas-relief and in the inscriptions, are not greaterthan he deserved. His personal exertions duringthe progress of the conflagration, and the interestwhich he subsequently took in the sufferings ofhis subjects, were certainly highly to his , had the plans been adopted for rebuild-ing the city which emanated from the genius ofSir Christopher Wren, and which were warmlysupported by his royal master, London wouldunquestionably have been the most stately city in Six persons have thrown themselves off the monument:William Green, a weaver, June 25, 1750; Thomas Cradock, abaker, July 7, 1788; Lyon Levi, a Jew, Jan. 18, 1810; a girlnamed Moyes, the daughter of a baker in Heminges Row, , 1839; a boy named Hawes, Oct. 18, 1839; and a girl of theage of seventeen, in August, 1842. This kind of death becomingpopular, it was deemed advisable to encage the monument as wenow see LONDON AND ITS CELL-BRITIES. 155 the world. UnfortuMulcly, however, space wasof too much value, property too much divided,and people in too great a hurry to repair pastlosses by future profits, to admit of the realisationof these magnificent projects. It had been the intention of Sir ChristopherWren to surmount the monument with a statueof Charles the Second, and when he laid hisoriginal design before the king the column wasthus ornamented. Charles, however, declined thehonour. Not, says Wren, that his Majestydisliked a statue ; but he was pleased to think alarge ball of metal, gilt, would be more the present gilded vase of flames wassubstituted for the proposed statue. The Latininscriptions on the monument were written byDoctor Gale, Dean of York. CHAPTER VI. FISH STREET HILL, EASTCHEAP, GRACECHURCHSTREET, ST. OLAVEs, HART STREET. Kings Head Tavern — St. Magnus the Martyr — PuddingLane — Boars Head Taver
Size: 1414px × 1767px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidmemoirsofcit, bookyear1902
