Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . be interred, they areforced to leave the same within this forsykenchurch or churchyard, where it resteth as secureagainst the day of resurrection as if it laie in stately 330 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [St. St. Paules. Nordens account implies that wherethe church is situated was then one of the leastfrequented and desolate spots in the vicinity of themetropolis. A writer in the Gentletnaiis Magazine, for July,1749, in the Hues quoted as a motto to thischapter, states that— Christs sacred altar here first Britain s
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . be interred, they areforced to leave the same within this forsykenchurch or churchyard, where it resteth as secureagainst the day of resurrection as if it laie in stately 330 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [St. St. Paules. Nordens account implies that wherethe church is situated was then one of the leastfrequented and desolate spots in the vicinity of themetropolis. A writer in the Gentletnaiis Magazine, for July,1749, in the Hues quoted as a motto to thischapter, states that— Christs sacred altar here first Britain antiquaries inform us that the original and in that of burials 166S. The earlier registershave long since perished. In the table of benefactions to the parish it isstated that certain lands, fee-simple, copyhold ofinheritance, held of the manors of Tottenhall Courtand of Cantelows, were given by some person orpersons unknown, for and to the use and benefit ofthis parish, for the needful and necessary repair ofthe parish church and the chapel, as the said parish. FORTIKICATIONS OF OLD ST. PANCRAS. establishment of a church on this site was inearly Saxon times; and Maximilian Misson, inwriting of St. John Lateran at Rome, says, Thisis the head and mother of all Christian churches,if you except that of St. Pancras under Highgate,near London. In the last century Divine service was performedin St. Pancras Church only on the first Sunday inevery month, and at all other times in the chapelof ease at Kentish Town, it being thought that thefew people who lived near the church could go upto London to pray, while that at Kentish Townwas more suited for the country folk, and thiscustom continued down to within the presentcentury. The earliest date that we meet with inthe registry of marriages and baptisms is 1660, in vestry should from time- to time direct; and thatthese lands were, by custom of the said manors,and for the form of law, to be held in the names ofeight trustees wh
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