. Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of highly-finished engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions of such objects in the metropolis and the surrounding country as are most remarkable for antiquity, architectural grandeur, or picturesque beauty. wedby him in his journies. West, Bishop of Ely, in J532, daily fed 200 poor (a) These rings were evidently fixed in the wall when it was built, and prove this room to have beenintended from the first for the same purpose as the prison in the Lollards Tower. It is guar
. Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of highly-finished engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions of such objects in the metropolis and the surrounding country as are most remarkable for antiquity, architectural grandeur, or picturesque beauty. wedby him in his journies. West, Bishop of Ely, in J532, daily fed 200 poor (a) These rings were evidently fixed in the wall when it was built, and prove this room to have beenintended from the first for the same purpose as the prison in the Lollards Tower. It is guarded by adouble door: the windows are high and narrow, and the walls entirely composed of stone of a prodi-gious thickness. An additional confirmation is, that here is the same sort of writing as in the LollardsTower, cut in the solid stone with a knife or some other sharp instrument. The name of ®taftonin the old English character is perfectly legible, and near it are to be seen a cross and other figures rudelydelineated. (b) The registry of the prerogative-oflfice was anciently in a ground room on the left-hand side atthe going in at the gate, and afterwards at the right-hand of the same gate opposite to the porterslodge. (c) It is derived from the Saxon fta:l, parj, portio, fron» bilan, dividerc, distiibucre. Cowel. 5. l,:uli/,.i fh> fhr Hall /,? \.Ji 2. Omnmrn/tif (h-fsrs /thrm^d wiih ff/a£rd hru-k\f I in thr oU waUvftif Iri/rf hrn/. ^naniifj hy J tUif,- fmin a TVirvvM A> r n>it^- LAMBETH PALACE. people at his gates ; and the Lord Cromwell usually the same number. Edward,Earl of Derby, fed upwards of sixty aged poor, besides all comers, thrice a week,and furnished on Good Friday 2700 people with meat, drink, and were equally liberal. The Archbishops of Canterbury, as first in place and dignity, appear to haveexercised this ancient virtue of hospitality in a supereminent degree. In Arch-bishop Parkers regulations f
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