The churches of London: a history and description of the ecclesiastical edifices of the metropolis . e little information which can be relied on ; all thatwe know of him having been written by those who wouldhave deemed the desire of increasing the influence andrevenues of the church evinced by Swithin quite sufficient,even in the absence of all wisdom, to entitle him to thewarmest terms of commendation which could be is said by one writer, that Alfred the Great was com-mitted to his charge in early infancy, and Turner in hishistory of the Anglo Saxons, remarks, that as we knowAlfr
The churches of London: a history and description of the ecclesiastical edifices of the metropolis . e little information which can be relied on ; all thatwe know of him having been written by those who wouldhave deemed the desire of increasing the influence andrevenues of the church evinced by Swithin quite sufficient,even in the absence of all wisdom, to entitle him to thewarmest terms of commendation which could be is said by one writer, that Alfred the Great was com-mitted to his charge in early infancy, and Turner in hishistory of the Anglo Saxons, remarks, that as we knowAlfred could not write or read until a comparatively lateage, the bishop was certainly unfit for the office of however says, his learning questionless was great. 2 E 2 ST. SWITHINS, LONDON STONE. When Swithin died, which was in 862 or 3, he left di-rections, and possibly this is an instance of his humility,that his body should not be buried in the cathedral, but insuch a situation, that the rain might fall on his grave; andhe was accordingly interred in the church-yard at Win-chester. x. 1 The vulgar belief that if it rain on St. Swithins anniversary, rain willfall on the thirty-nine days following, appears to be in some way connectedwith the above circumstance. The story told is, that after his body had beenburied for some time, the monks deeming it dishonourable to them that heshould lie in the open ground, attempted to remove it to the cathedral in ST. SWITHINS, LONDON STONE. 3 The church represented above, was erected by Sir Chris-topher Wren in 1680, in consequence of the destructionof its predecessor by the fire of ] 666. The original foun-dation of a church here, may be ascribed to an early learn that, one Robert de Galdeford, rector, resignedin 1331. The church and steeple were rebuilt on an en-larged scale in the year 1420, chiefly at the expense ofSir John Hind or Heende, who was Lord Mayor in 1391,and 1404. After the fire of London, the parish of St.
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