The church of StBartholomew the Great, West SmithfieldIts foundation, present condition, and funeral monuments . South Side( With Prior Boltons I ST. BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT. 41. of in Trifontim.) 42 THE CHURCH OF opened, a sandal was found lying with the skele-ton. The inscription has all the brevity of anearly age: Hie jacet Raherus primus canonicus et primus priorhujus ecolesise. The effigy of the first Canon and first Priorrepresents him with shaven crown, in the blackrobe of an Augustinian Canon. A crownedangel at his feet holds a shield which bears thearms of the Priory, gule
The church of StBartholomew the Great, West SmithfieldIts foundation, present condition, and funeral monuments . South Side( With Prior Boltons I ST. BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT. 41. of in Trifontim.) 42 THE CHURCH OF opened, a sandal was found lying with the skele-ton. The inscription has all the brevity of anearly age: Hie jacet Raherus primus canonicus et primus priorhujus ecolesise. The effigy of the first Canon and first Priorrepresents him with shaven crown, in the blackrobe of an Augustinian Canon. A crownedangel at his feet holds a shield which bears thearms of the Priory, gules two lions passantguardant with two crowns or in chief. At eachside of the Prior is a small kneeling figure of amonk reading from a book. The effigy haswell-marked features and is certainly a portraitof Rahere, who built the church in which hisbones still repose, and who was the originatorof two great foundations, the Priory of , of which this church is the chiefremaining jjart, and the Hospital of St. Bar-tholomew, which is flourishing and fulfils withtenfold force the purpose of its founder. Thepoor of London have for twenty-six generationsowed help in
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