London . tUeOld Com Exclmnst.]. [The Cliav--] LXXIV.—ELY PLACE. Pausing the other day on Holborn Hill to mark the gallant efforts of a team ofhorses to draw some more than usually heavy load up the steep acclivity, andwondering if this dangerous nuisance would ever be removed, our eyes, as theyturned away from the contemplation of the painful and apparently hopeless task,fell upon a printed notice, which stated that divine worship was duly performedat certain periods in .SY. Etheldredas Chapel. Tlie notice was attached to theiron gates enclosing the quiet and respectable-looking l
London . tUeOld Com Exclmnst.]. [The Cliav--] LXXIV.—ELY PLACE. Pausing the other day on Holborn Hill to mark the gallant efforts of a team ofhorses to draw some more than usually heavy load up the steep acclivity, andwondering if this dangerous nuisance would ever be removed, our eyes, as theyturned away from the contemplation of the painful and apparently hopeless task,fell upon a printed notice, which stated that divine worship was duly performedat certain periods in .SY. Etheldredas Chapel. Tlie notice was attached to theiron gates enclosing the quiet and respectable-looking locality known as Ely Place,immediately opposite St. Andrews Church and Churchyard, where rests indeath poor Chatterton. And who was St. Etheldreda? A Saxon saint? Andwhy had a modern Chapel been dedicated to such an antique personage? Or wasthe Chapel of St. Etheldreda a relic of the once famous Palace of the Bishops ofEly ? We may here observe that it is a peculiarity of London, that whilst fewcities are richer with the spoils of time, t
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