. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. ^, on the retirement of Mr. Gladstonefrom office in the early part of the year 1874. Itis also worthy of note that by an act of PopePius IX.—which, however, is not recognised asvalid for legal purposes in England—Westminsterwas created a Roman Catholic Archbishopric,Cardinal Wiseman being appointed to fill it. On. SUFFOLK HOUSE. (After Hollar.) a modern writer places it on Tower Hill. Forourselves we can only say that we have not beenable to verify the assertion. Westminster appears to have been only a towndown to t
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. ^, on the retirement of Mr. Gladstonefrom office in the early part of the year 1874. Itis also worthy of note that by an act of PopePius IX.—which, however, is not recognised asvalid for legal purposes in England—Westminsterwas created a Roman Catholic Archbishopric,Cardinal Wiseman being appointed to fill it. On. SUFFOLK HOUSE. (After Hollar.) a modern writer places it on Tower Hill. Forourselves we can only say that we have not beenable to verify the assertion. Westminster appears to have been only a towndown to the reign of Henry VIII., who raised it byroyal letters patent into an Honour. The AbbeyChurch being erected into a bishops see in 1541,it of course became a city, and when, ten yearslater, the bishopric was suppressed, the good peopleof Westminster did not resign the title, nor did theking reclaim it, so a city has it remained down to thepresent day. Its Honour was raised into aMarcjuisate by William IV. in 1831, in favour ofthe then head of the Grosvenor family, whose pro-perty, within the limits of its several parishes, fully his death in 1865, the mitre was bestowed by hisHoliness on Dr. Manning as his successor. As for the early history of the fair city of West-minster, we fear that, like that of Rome under thekings, it is a little mixed up with fable. It owedits first beginning
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