. Walks in London . n a clean white cloth for the poor, bequeathed to them bya humble benefactor of the early part of the seventeenthcentury, whose dust lies below. • That the life of the Black Nuns of St. Helens was not altogether devoid ofamusements we may gather from the Coustitutiones given them by the Deanand Chapter of St. Pauls— also we enjoyne you, that all daunsyng and revelngbe utterly forborne among you, except at Christraasse, and other honest tymy» tArecreacyone^ among y(.)urselfe usyd, in absence of seculars in alle wyse.* 9^2 WALKS IN LONDON, On the wall above the Nuns Grate is
. Walks in London . n a clean white cloth for the poor, bequeathed to them bya humble benefactor of the early part of the seventeenthcentury, whose dust lies below. • That the life of the Black Nuns of St. Helens was not altogether devoid ofamusements we may gather from the Coustitutiones given them by the Deanand Chapter of St. Pauls— also we enjoyne you, that all daunsyng and revelngbe utterly forborne among you, except at Christraasse, and other honest tymy» tArecreacyone^ among y(.)urselfe usyd, in absence of seculars in alle wyse.* 9^2 WALKS IN LONDON, On the wall above the Nuns Grate is a monumenterected in 1C77 to the memory of Alberico Gentili, who,when driven to England by the religious persecutions of thelatter part ot the sixteenth century, establibhed his reputa-tion as a great international jurist by his famous work, DeJure Belli. The register of St. Helens mentions the burialof his father, Matteo, near the cherry-tree, and that of theson at the feet of Widow Coombs, near the gooseberry. Tomb of Sir John Crosby, St. Helens. tree —/ e. in the convent garden, as near to the back of thismonument as can be identified. Passing the altar, we reach the noble tomb of Sir JohnCrosby (1475) ^^^<^ ^s wife Anneys—he wearing an alder-mans mantle over plate armour, and with a collar of sunsand roses, the badge of the House of York, round his lady has a most remarkable headdress. Steps leaddown into the Chapel of the Virgin, almost paved with ST. HELENS, BISHOPSGATE. 293 brasses, the best being that of John Lementhorp (1510) inarmour; and those of Nicholas Wootton (1482) and JohnBrent (1451), rectors of St. Martin Outwich, removed fromthat church. In the centre of the chapel is the fine tombof John (le Oteswitch and Mary his wife, of the time ofHenry IV., foundei-s of St. Martin Outwich. An admir-able little figure of a girl with a book, of old Italian work-
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