. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . eguests near at hand, without crowding the grandapartment. It is probable this apartment was richly fur-nished, for some of the windows of the groundfloor shew, that, beside the iron bars to which theglazing was fastened, additional gratings have ^ John Elham wa^ prior from 1446 to 1449. 8 John Bokynham or Buckingham, Mr. Somner says, was, in thetime of King Richard II. Keeper of the Privy Seal, and afterwards LordBishop of Lincoln, from whence, in the year of our redemp
. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . eguests near at hand, without crowding the grandapartment. It is probable this apartment was richly fur-nished, for some of the windows of the groundfloor shew, that, beside the iron bars to which theglazing was fastened, additional gratings have ^ John Elham wa^ prior from 1446 to 1449. 8 John Bokynham or Buckingham, Mr. Somner says, was, in thetime of King Richard II. Keeper of the Privy Seal, and afterwards LordBishop of Lincoln, from whence, in the year of our redemption, 1397,Pope Boniface IX. bearing him a grudge, translated him per force untoLitchfield, a bishopric not half so good, which he refused to accept, andchusing rather a retired monastic course of life, he became a monk of thischurch, where he spent the rest of his days, and was buried, by his will, atthe lower [west] end of the body. His grave-stone there (a very largeone of marble) was once inlaid with brass, but is, as all others of that kindare, robbed of the biasR ligiu*es and inscriptions which once \ .///././//./AIli-il rn^lx^ndary. n. i-oJ/tvr Sui// 153 been fixed there, which must have been for securityrather than ornament. The bricked passage^ here brings us to the doorof the sixth prebendary, with a small court beforeit, on one side of which is the east window of theinfirmary chapel, now closed up, as are somearches of much older windows, still to be seen inthe same wall. A little to the left is a covered passage, at theentrance of which we may see, almost over head,but nearer the corner of the wall, a maimed figureof a man sitting, who, in Somners time, held ascroll in his hand, with the words Ecce me major,designed probably for St. John Baptist, to whomthis chapel was dedicated. See Chap. XL* The room over it belongs to the first prebendary,and a turning westward in the passage, brings usto one front of his house, which lies in a lineparallel
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