Walks in London . inster. This is the centre of the greatmovement of the Westminster Diocesan Education Fund, by which30,000 poor Roman Catholic children in London are being the altar of the private chapel are the mitre and maniple of a Becket. 300 Walks in London A London oasis, destroyed in 1892-93, was the Emanuel Hospitalin Little James Street, founded 1594, by the will of Anne, widow ofGregory, Lord Dacre of the South, sister of the poet-statesman LordBuckhurst, and at one time maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth. Asplendid wrought-iron gate was the entrance to a grass
Walks in London . inster. This is the centre of the greatmovement of the Westminster Diocesan Education Fund, by which30,000 poor Roman Catholic children in London are being the altar of the private chapel are the mitre and maniple of a Becket. 300 Walks in London A London oasis, destroyed in 1892-93, was the Emanuel Hospitalin Little James Street, founded 1594, by the will of Anne, widow ofGregory, Lord Dacre of the South, sister of the poet-statesman LordBuckhurst, and at one time maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth. Asplendid wrought-iron gate was the entrance to a grass plot surroundedon three sides by one-storeyed buildings of red brick, having a chapelwith its pediment decorated by an elaborate coat of arms, and sur-mounted by a bell-turret. The altar-piece of the destroyed church ofSt. Benet Fink was preserved here. Lady Dacres will provided for twenty poor aged folk, and twenty poor children. The property leftfor their maintenance has since enormously increased in value, but. EMANUEL HOSPITAL, WESTMINSTER. two-thirds are diverted to the maintenance of middle-class picturesque old buildings and their green enclosed space are anirreparable loss to London. Tothill (Toot Hill) Street leads into York Street, named afterFrederick, Duke of York, son of George III., but formerly calledPetty France, from the number of French Protestants who tookrefuge there in 1685. Here No. 19, destroyed in 1877 without avoice being raised to save it,1 was Miltons pretty garden house,marked on the garden side by a tablet erected by Jeremy Bentham 1 Not one of Miltons ten London residences remains now, though several havebeen standing within memory. Westminster Bridge 301 (who lived and died close by in Queen Square Place), inscribed Sacred to Milton, Prince of Poets. It was here that he becameblind, and that Andrew Marvell lived as his secretary. His firstwife, Mary Powell, died here, leaving three little girls motherless ;and while living here he mar
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