. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. oisters; Westminster Abbey. ] ASHBURNHAM HOUSE. and do fill the same with nastiness, whereby greatnlience is caused to all people going through thechurch and cloisters ; and whereas many idle boyscome into the cloisters daily, and there play atcards and other plays for money, and are oftenheard to curse and swear: Charles Baldwell isai)pointed beadel to restrain this, and to complainof offenders, if necessary, to a justice of the it is further ordered that if any boys that go tothe grammar school, or are c
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. oisters; Westminster Abbey. ] ASHBURNHAM HOUSE. and do fill the same with nastiness, whereby greatnlience is caused to all people going through thechurch and cloisters ; and whereas many idle boyscome into the cloisters daily, and there play atcards and other plays for money, and are oftenheard to curse and swear: Charles Baldwell isai)pointed beadel to restrain this, and to complainof offenders, if necessary, to a justice of the it is further ordered that if any boys that go tothe grammar school, or are choristers of the church, 457 means of which the whole has; become Stanley has had a copy made, which isdeposited in the Abbey Library. In the garden is an alcove, also attributed toInigo Jones, in imitation of part of a small Romantemple. In the coal-cellar are some remains ofthe vaults of the old conventual buildings, and inone of the walls may be seen a capital of theEarly Norman period. The house, however, con-tains nothing else striking or important, and is. THE DEA-Mr^ do play there, the beadel do forthwith give in thenames of such boys to one of the masters, that theymay be punished according to their fault. Ashburnham House, in Little Deans Yard, asstated above, was built by Inigo Jones. Its chiefbeauty is a magnificent staircase. In this house wasdeposited the Cottonian Library (now in the BritishMuseum), which had a narrow escape of beingdestroyed by fire here in 1731. One of the mostimportant works in this library was the CustomsBook of the Abbey, written by Abbot Ware in thethirteenth century. This volume has always beensaid to have been destroyed in the fire abovealluded -to, but its parched and shrivelled leaveshave been preserved in the British Museum, anda few years ago underwent a restoring process by135—Vol. III. chiefly memorable as having been at different timesinhabited by Dean Milman and Dean garden between the house and the clois
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