. Walks in London . s probablythe cause of its being one of the first to be VHI. gave it to Thomas Dudley, afterwards LordChancellor. His daughter married Thomas Howard, Dukeof Norfolk, who, after Audleys death, lived here in greatstate at * Dukes Place. His son, the Earl of Suffolk, soldthe property to the City of London for a large sum, whichhe expended ih the building of Audley End. We now reach, on the right (at the entrance of theancient street called St. Mary Axe, where the famoussurgeon Sir Astley Cooper commenced practice), the Church0/ St, Andrew Under shaft^ so called,
. Walks in London . s probablythe cause of its being one of the first to be VHI. gave it to Thomas Dudley, afterwards LordChancellor. His daughter married Thomas Howard, Dukeof Norfolk, who, after Audleys death, lived here in greatstate at * Dukes Place. His son, the Earl of Suffolk, soldthe property to the City of London for a large sum, whichhe expended ih the building of Audley End. We now reach, on the right (at the entrance of theancient street called St. Mary Axe, where the famoussurgeon Sir Astley Cooper commenced practice), the Church0/ St, Andrew Under shaft^ so called, says Stow, because ST. ANDREW UNDERSHAFT. 357 that of old time every year (on May-day in the morning),it was used that a high or long shaft or May-pole was setup there before the south door. The shaft of the May-pole was higher than the steeple. It was pulled downon Evil May Day in the reign of Henry VIII., butcontinued hanging on hooks in Shaft Alley till the thirdyear of Edward VI., when it was sawn in pieces and. St. Andrew Undershaft. burnt by the people after a sermon at Pauls Cross, inwhich the preacher told them that it had been madean idol of, inasmuch as they had named their parishchurch under the shaft. The church, which has apicturesque many-turreted tower, is a good specimenof Perpendicular (1520—1532). In the east windoware portraits of Edward VI., Elizabeth, James I., 358 WALICS IN LONDON. Charles T., and Charles II. On the north wall is a monu-ment to Sir Hugh Hammersley, 1637, with effigies of himand his wife kneeling under a tent, and two standingfigures at the sides, attributed to one Thomas by, a curious little specimen of a painted monument,is that of Alice Bynge, who had three husbands, all
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