. Walks in London . Prior Boltons Pew. sate during service, or whence the sacristan watched thealtar. It is adorned with the rebus of its builder—a boltthrough a ton.* There are similar oriels at INIalmesburyand in Exeter Cathedral. * The well-known Inn in Fleet Street the Bolt in Tun took its name from therebus of Prior Bolton. ST. BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT. i8s On the north of the choir is the tomb erected in thefifteenth century to the founder, Rahere, with a beautifullygroined canopy. At the foot of his sleeping figure standsa crowned angel, and on either side kneels a monk, witha Bible open a
. Walks in London . Prior Boltons Pew. sate during service, or whence the sacristan watched thealtar. It is adorned with the rebus of its builder—a boltthrough a ton.* There are similar oriels at INIalmesburyand in Exeter Cathedral. * The well-known Inn in Fleet Street the Bolt in Tun took its name from therebus of Prior Bolton. ST. BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT. i8s On the north of the choir is the tomb erected in thefifteenth century to the founder, Rahere, with a beautifullygroined canopy. At the foot of his sleeping figure standsa crowned angel, and on either side kneels a monk, witha Bible open at Isaiah li., and the words, The Lord shall. Raheres Tomb. comfort Zion : He will comfort all her waste places; andHe will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert likethe garden of the Lord ; joy and gladness shall be foundtherein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. On the north wall, also, is the monument of Robert f86 WALKS IN LONDON. Chamberlayne, ambassador, with two grand angels drawingthe curtains of a tent within which he is kneeUng in , in the ambulatory, are two recesses ; that nearestthe east end was part of the Wald/in Chapel, whereWaldei Bishop of London, was buried. From a very ^humble sphere he rose to be Dean of York, Treasurer ofCalais, Secretary to the King, and Treasurer of Archbishop Arundel was banished by Richard was made archbishop, but when Arundel returnedwith Henry IV., he was deposed, though he was generouslymade Bishop of London by his rival He may be compared, says Fuller, to one so jaw-fallen withovtr long fasting, that he cannot eat meat when brought unt
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