. Walks in London . nde ; for socoure had he noneIn En^lande then, to who he durste make moane;And there abode lyll commons all were ceasedIn Englande hole, and all the land well peased. The Savoy was never restored as a palace, but HenryVn. rebuilt it as a hospital in honour of John the Baptist,and endowed it by his will. The hospital was suppressedby Edward VL, but refounded by Mary, and only finallydissolved in the reign of Elizabeth, Over its gate, of 1505,were the lines— Hospitium hoc inopi turbe Savoia vocatum,Septimus Henricus fundavit ab imo solo. Soon after the Restoration the Confere
. Walks in London . nde ; for socoure had he noneIn En^lande then, to who he durste make moane;And there abode lyll commons all were ceasedIn Englande hole, and all the land well peased. The Savoy was never restored as a palace, but HenryVn. rebuilt it as a hospital in honour of John the Baptist,and endowed it by his will. The hospital was suppressedby Edward VL, but refounded by Mary, and only finallydissolved in the reign of Elizabeth, Over its gate, of 1505,were the lines— Hospitium hoc inopi turbe Savoia vocatum,Septimus Henricus fundavit ab imo solo. Soon after the Restoration the Conference of the Savoy ST. MARY LE SAVOY. 31 was held here for the revision of the Liturgy so as to meetthe feehngs of the Nonconformists, in which twelve* bishopsof the Church of England met an equal number of Non-conformists in discussion. Richard Baxter, who hadalready published his most popular books, was one ofthe commissioners, and here drew up in a fortnight thatreformed liturgy which Dr. Johnson pronounced * one. The Churchyard of the Savoy. of the finest compositions of the ritual kind which hehad ever seen. The remains of the Savoy palace were all swept awayw^en Waterloo Bridge was built. Originally dedicated toSt. John the Baptist, it was called St. Mary k Savoy, be-cause it served as a church for the parish of St. Mary leStrand. The church was the chapel, not of the palace,but of Henry hospital. There is a tradition that 32 iVALKS IN LONDON. the Liturgy restored by Elizabeth was first read in thischapel in the vernacular tongue. It is of Perpendiculararchitecture (1505), with a quaint low belfry like thoseof many small churches in Northumberland. The inte-rioi was entirely destroyed by lire in i860, and wasfor the second time renewed by the munificence of theQueen as Duchess of Lancaster. It has a rich colouredroof, and resembles a college chapel; but the tombs whichformerly made it so interesting perished in the one small figure from Lady Dalhousies m
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