The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations . ST. 14 AMERICAN PILGRIM SHRINES IN LONDON. thirteen years between the reprieve which followed hisdeath sentence at Winchester, and his last voyage in searchof a South American El Dorado in 1617. On his returnhe was again imprisoned and later taken to Westminster,where he was beheaded. From the Tower one may look across the Thames toSouthwark, famous in Shakespeares day as the home of.
The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations . ST. 14 AMERICAN PILGRIM SHRINES IN LONDON. thirteen years between the reprieve which followed hisdeath sentence at Winchester, and his last voyage in searchof a South American El Dorado in 1617. On his returnhe was again imprisoned and later taken to Westminster,where he was beheaded. From the Tower one may look across the Thames toSouthwark, famous in Shakespeares day as the home of. THE BLOODY TOWER, TOWER OF LONDON. drama, where the tower of Southwark Cathedral—after theAbbey, the most beautiful Gothic building in London—risesabove a sea of roofs and chimney pots. This fine oldbuilding, dating in parts from the thirteenth century, con-tains a series of modern stained-glass windows, prominentamong them being one to John Harvard, founder of theworld-famous American University which bears his name,who was baptised in this church in November, 1607. Anancient chapel in the Cathedral was restored in his memory AM1:KKAN IMI-GKIM SHRINES IN LONDON. and a nuiiiorial window was added in 1905. It wasunveiled by the late Mr. Choate, American Ambassadorto the Court of St. James, in the presence of the Archbishopof Canterbury and a large congregation of distinguishedmen and women. This brief survey of American Pilgrim Shrines inLondon by no means exhausts the list, for there are otherswhich, if less impressive than those already described,are nevertheless links in the cha
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