Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . ge, as wehave already seen ; but notwithstanding that theciti/.ens of London had cut down the drawbridge, 3° OLD AND NEW LONDON. r Southwark the inhabitants of the borough received him Thomas issued a proclamation that no soldierof his should take anything without paying for it;notwithstanding which, some of them attacked theBishop of Winchesters house, made havoc of hisgoods, and cut to pieces all his books, so thatmen might have gone up to their knees in theleaves so torn out. Wyatt stayed here only twoor
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . ge, as wehave already seen ; but notwithstanding that theciti/.ens of London had cut down the drawbridge, 3° OLD AND NEW LONDON. r Southwark the inhabitants of the borough received him Thomas issued a proclamation that no soldierof his should take anything without paying for it;notwithstanding which, some of them attacked theBishop of Winchesters house, made havoc of hisgoods, and cut to pieces all his books, so thatmen might have gone up to their knees in theleaves so torn out. Wyatt stayed here only twoor three days, when the inhabitants, finding that turned the episcopal palace into a prison for theroyalists; and in 1649 it was sold for ,£4,380to one Thomas Walker, of Camberwell. It wasrecovered by the Bishop of Winchester, at theRestoration, but was not again used as a the time of the civil wars, the Bishops ofWinchester resided here during the sitting of Par-liament ; but afterwards they removed to Chelsea,where, as we have seen,* they had another house. view OF ST. MARY OVERY. {From an Etching by Hollar, the Governor of the Tower of London had plantedseveral pieces of ordnance against the foot of thebridge and on the steeples of St. Olave and Overy, became alarmed, and desired SirThomas to leave them, which he did. The Swedish envoy, John, Duke of Finland, waslodged in the Bishop of Winchesters palace whenhe came to solicit the hand of Queen Elizabethfor his elder brother, Eric, the son and heir of theKing of Sweden. He went in state to visit theQueen at Greenwich ; but his fathers death re-called him to Sweden. Bishop Lancelot Andrewes, as we have alreadystated, died at Winchester House in 1626, and wascarried hence to his last resting-place in St. SavioursChurch. Twenty years later, the Presbyterians provided for them under the sanction of an Act ofParliament in 1661. A part of the palace wasstanding, occupied as tenements and warehouses,ti
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