. Walks in London . heires. Above the tombs of these brothers the Bust of the foolish beauty, withwhose little affectations and jealousies we are so singularly wellacquainted—the Wife of Samuel Pepys. (Right of altar) The admirable Figure, beautiful in profile, of DameAnne RadcUffe, 1585. The Monument oi Sir John Mennys, 1671, the witty Comptroller ofthe Navy under Charles II., who wrote some of the best poems in tlie• Musarum Deliciae. This is the Sir John Minnes mentioned inPepyss Diary of June 6, 1666, when he says, To our church, it beingthe common Fast-day, and it was just before sermon ;
. Walks in London . heires. Above the tombs of these brothers the Bust of the foolish beauty, withwhose little affectations and jealousies we are so singularly wellacquainted—the Wife of Samuel Pepys. (Right of altar) The admirable Figure, beautiful in profile, of DameAnne RadcUffe, 1585. The Monument oi Sir John Mennys, 1671, the witty Comptroller ofthe Navy under Charles II., who wrote some of the best poems in tlie• Musarum Deliciae. This is the Sir John Minnes mentioned inPepyss Diary of June 6, 1666, when he says, To our church, it beingthe common Fast-day, and it was just before sermon ; but, Lord ! howall tlie |)eop1e in the church did stare upon me, to see me whisper thenews of the victory over the Dutch to Sir John Minnes and my LadyPea! Anon 1 saw people stirring and whispering below ; and by and ST. OLAVE, HART STREET, 343 by comes up the sexton from my Lady Ford, to tell me the news whichI had brought, being now sent into the church by Sir W. Batten, inwriting, and passed from pew to The Gate of the Dead, Seethinc: Lane. (South Aisle) The curious Brass, much mutilated, of Sir RichardHaddon, Lord Mayor, and his family. The Brass of John Or gone and his wife Ellyne, 1584, with the in-scription— ** As I was, so be ye;As I am, you shall be ,That I gave, that I have;That I spent, that I had ;Thus I ende all my coste,That I lefte, that I loste. Admirable Jacobian Monument of Sir J. Deane, 1608, with hiswives and children. J44 WALKS IN LONDON. Deverenx, Earl of Essex, the Parliamentary general, wasbaptised in this church, 1591, by Lancelot Andrews, after-wards Bishop of Winchester. lis churchyard was one ofthose used for burial during the Plague, a fact commemoratedin the skulls over its picturesque and grimy gateway, whichis surmounted by a curious chevaux de frise of ancient iron-work. Pepys, writing on January 30, 1665-6, says— •* Home, finding the to^vn keeping the day solemnly, it being the dayof the Icings murther; and they being at church
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