The English Bodley family . een went into the city from Westminster,which was only on some great occasion, the gates in Temple Barwere closed, while the Lord Mayor stood with a sword on the cityside. Heralds sounded, a parley was held, and then the gates werethrown open and the mayor delivered the sword to the sovereign,who graciously handed it back again/ LONDON TOWN. 15& I suppose, said Charles, that if the mayor objected to lettingthe queen come through he would be handed over to the police. Such customs usually are earnest once, then they become mereforms, and at last they are worn out lik
The English Bodley family . een went into the city from Westminster,which was only on some great occasion, the gates in Temple Barwere closed, while the Lord Mayor stood with a sword on the cityside. Heralds sounded, a parley was held, and then the gates werethrown open and the mayor delivered the sword to the sovereign,who graciously handed it back again/ LONDON TOWN. 15& I suppose, said Charles, that if the mayor objected to lettingthe queen come through he would be handed over to the police. Such customs usually are earnest once, then they become mereforms, and at last they are worn out like this one and thrown away. ? But why was it called Temple Bar? asked Sarah. Is thereany temple near by ? • To be sure, said Cousin Ned, and I think we ought to stepaside to see it. So, wheeling his whole party about, he led them bya little cross street toward the water-side, and to what is knownas The Temple, where are halls for lawyers, and a singular oldchurch. The Temple, as he explained, is a name given to what. Exterior of the Temple Church in the time of James I. was once the property of the Knights Templars, who were amongthe Crusaders, and who built their church in imitation of the Holy 156 THE ENGLISH BODLEY FAMILY. Sepulchre at Jerusalem. So long ago as 1185 the church was dedi-cated, and though it has passed through changes since, it is still substantially the walked aboutwithin the church andlooked at the recum-bent figures of the mail-clad Knights Templars. These fellows, saidMr. Van Wyck, weremore picturesque; butfor my part I take morepleasure in thinkingthat Dr. Johnson andOliver Goldsmith andCowper and CharlesLamb lived within theseprecincts. They makethe place more humanto me than KnightsTemplars. I cant forthe life of me help con-founding these historicsrentlemen with the Ma-sonic societies of ourInterior of the Temple Church, cUy, and thcy always seem to me to have the greatest amount of outside bravery withthe least degree of heroic action. ? O
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