. London . wn, is not easily intelligible. Perhaps the story of thepartition of the cloak at the gate of Amiens, while the saintwas still a soldier, struck the imagination of the the saints austerities at Liguje would not attractthe world. In London alone there were the church of , Ludgate Hill—said to have been founded in veryearly Saxon times—that of St. Martins Outwich, of Orgar, St. Martin Pomary, and St. Martin Vintry—five parish churches to attest his sanctity and his popu-larity. St. Martin-le-Grand, sanctuary and collegiate church,was a Liberty to i
. London . wn, is not easily intelligible. Perhaps the story of thepartition of the cloak at the gate of Amiens, while the saintwas still a soldier, struck the imagination of the the saints austerities at Liguje would not attractthe world. In London alone there were the church of , Ludgate Hill—said to have been founded in veryearly Saxon times—that of St. Martins Outwich, of Orgar, St. Martin Pomary, and St. Martin Vintry—five parish churches to attest his sanctity and his popu-larity. St. Martin-le-Grand, sanctuary and collegiate church,was a Liberty to itself. Here criminals found safety and 46 LOND( >\ could not be arrested, a privilege which lasted long after thedissolution of the religious houses. Among the deans of was William ofWykeham. One church only of the whole thirteen still stands. Partof the present Church of St. Bartholomew the Great is thatactually built by Rahere, the first founder, in the beginning ofthe twelfth r»~ ^.c^*- —^=
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