The history and antiquities of the abbey church of StPeter, Westminster : including notices and biographical memoirs of the abbots and deans of that foundation . ern extremity. The height ofthe principal divisions of the building are, also, marked on the Plate. * Vide, Plate XL. The View of Poets Corner, looking South, in Plate XVIII, includes thefollowing Monuments, beginning with that above the doorway in the east aisle: 1. Ben Jonson;2. Samuel Butler; 3. Edmund Spencer; 4. John Milton ; 5. Thomas Gray; 6. Matthew Prior; Anstey, Esq.; 8. Dr. Horneck; 9. John, Duke of Argyle and
The history and antiquities of the abbey church of StPeter, Westminster : including notices and biographical memoirs of the abbots and deans of that foundation . ern extremity. The height ofthe principal divisions of the building are, also, marked on the Plate. * Vide, Plate XL. The View of Poets Corner, looking South, in Plate XVIII, includes thefollowing Monuments, beginning with that above the doorway in the east aisle: 1. Ben Jonson;2. Samuel Butler; 3. Edmund Spencer; 4. John Milton ; 5. Thomas Gray; 6. Matthew Prior; Anstey, Esq.; 8. Dr. Horneck; 9. John, Duke of Argyle and Greenwich; 10. Mrs. MaryHope; and 11. the Right Hon. James Stuart Mackenzie, Lord Privy Seal of Scotland. The archi-tectural arrangement of the south end of this Transept may be well understood from the above figure introduced near the entrance, is that of John Lilly, (formerly one of the officers of theChurch) who, by the fall of an iron gate, about ten years ago, had his right foot so severely bruisedthat a mortification ensued, and his leg was obliged to be amputated: a small weekly stipend is nowallowed him by the Dean and Chapter. fyJ/Vtut IvOmnrltS fiUa^ittrjK-aJtr Longman ,i CHAPEL OF ST. BLAIZE DESCRIBED. 35 South Transept, to the basement of the upper windows, are sculptured with akind of light chequered-work, representing expanded flowers within smallsquares; this mode of enrichment being- general to all the ancient parts ofthe Church. The Chapel of St. Blaize is supposed to have been originally occupiedas a treasury, or place of security, for the numerous valuables, either depo-sited in, or belonging to, the ancient Monastery. Dart describes it ashaving in his time three doors, the inner one being cancellated; and thatin the middle of great thickness, lined with skins resembling parchment,and driven full of nails. He adds, that there was a traditionary accountthat these were the skins of some captive Danes, which had been tanned an
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