. Walks in London . ims of landlords and tenants in the destroyedhouses—a task which they accomplished so much to thesatisfaction of every one concerned that their portraits areall preserved in Guildhall in honour of patient justice. Farther down Chancery Lane, on the same side, is anold dingy co^irtyard containing the Rolls Court and ChapcLThe latter was originally built in the time cf Henry 111.,but rebuilt by Inigo Jones in 1617, when Dr. Donnepreached the consecration sermon. Bishop Atterbury andBishop Butler were Preachers at the Rolls, and also BishopBurnet, who was dismissed on account
. Walks in London . ims of landlords and tenants in the destroyedhouses—a task which they accomplished so much to thesatisfaction of every one concerned that their portraits areall preserved in Guildhall in honour of patient justice. Farther down Chancery Lane, on the same side, is anold dingy co^irtyard containing the Rolls Court and ChapcLThe latter was originally built in the time cf Henry 111.,but rebuilt by Inigo Jones in 1617, when Dr. Donnepreached the consecration sermon. Bishop Atterbury andBishop Butler were Preachers at the Rolls, and also BishopBurnet, who was dismissed on account of the offence given 8o IVALKS IN LONDOlV, to King and Court, by his preaching a sermon here on thetext, Save me from the Hons mouth \ thou hast heard mefrom the horns of the unicorns. It is Htlle known that within the walls of this ugly chapelis one of the noblest pieces of sculpture which Englandpossesses, a tomb which may be compared for beauty withthe famous monuments of Francesco Albergati at Bologna, £M^J11. }K/>.c4(.So The Torregiano Tomb, Rolls Chapel. and of Bernardo Guigni in the Badia at Florence. Thevisitor will at once be struck by the contrast of the tombof Dr. John Young, Master of the Rolls in the time ofHenry VIII., with the usual types of English aged Master reposes in the most sublime serenity ofdeath upon a sarcophagus, shaped like a Florentine bride-chest, within a circular arch, on the back of which the THE ROLLS CHAPEL. 8l half figure of the Saviour rises in low relief between twocherubim. In the panel of the pedestal beneath is the in-scription and the date mdxvi. The whole is the work of theimn\ortal Torregiano, who was the sculptor of Henry , and words would fail to give an idea of the infiniterepose which he has here given to the venerable features ofthe dead. Another stately monument on the same sideof the chapel commemorates Lord Bruce of Kinloss (1610),who was sent to open a secret correspondence with Cecil,under the pr
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