. Walks in London . 1694). ** He was buried in the Church of St. Lawrence Jewry. It was therethat he had won his immense national reputation. He had preachedthere dilring the thirty years which preceded his elevation to the throneof Canterbury. . His remains were carried through a mourningpopulation. The hearse was followed by an endless train of splendidequipages from Lambeth through Southwark and over London preached the funeral sermon. His kind and honest heart wasovercome by so many tender recollections that, in the midst of hisdiscourse, he paused and burst into tears, while
. Walks in London . 1694). ** He was buried in the Church of St. Lawrence Jewry. It was therethat he had won his immense national reputation. He had preachedthere dilring the thirty years which preceded his elevation to the throneof Canterbury. . His remains were carried through a mourningpopulation. The hearse was followed by an endless train of splendidequipages from Lambeth through Southwark and over London preached the funeral sermon. His kind and honest heart wasovercome by so many tender recollections that, in the midst of hisdiscourse, he paused and burst into tears, while a loud moan of sorrow•rose from the whole auditory. The Queen (Mary) could not speak 0/ 2{b WALKS IN LONDON. her favourite instructor without weeping. Even William was visiblymoved. I have lost, he said, the best friend that I ever had, andthe best man that I ever knew. —Macaulay. History of England. Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, the mathematician, is alsoburied here, with Sir Geoffry Boleyne of Blickling, Lord. ountain of St. Lawrence. Mayor of London, oh. 1463, great-great-grandfather ofQueen Elizabeth. The words noiv thus, in brass, weredispersed thirty-two times over his gravestone. The Guildhall was originally built in the time ofHenry IV. (1411), but it has been so much alteredthat, though the walls were not much injured in the Fire • See Stow, and Goughs Sepulchral Monuments. THE GUILDHALL 237 and only had to be reroofed, very little can be said to remain visible of that time except the crypt. The front,by George Dance, is a miserable work of 1789. Here it was that, after the death of Edward IV., whilehis sons were in the Tower, on June 22, 1483, the Duke ofBuckingham addressed the people, and after cunninglydwelling on the exactions of the late kings reign, deniedhis legitimacy, and, affirming that the Duke of Gloucesterwas the only true son of the Duke of York, demanded thathe should be acknowledged as king. In 1546 the Guildhall was used for the trial of Anne,dau
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