London and Its Environs Described, vol. 2 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round ItAnonymous
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London and Its Environs Described, vol. 2 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
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London (England) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; London (England) -- Gazetteers -- Early works to 1800
_St._ ETHELBURGA’S Church, on the east side of Bishopsgate street, is
so denominated from the first Christian Princess in Britain, the
daughter of Ethelbert King of Kent. It escaped the fire in 1666. The
body is irregular and in the Gothic style, with very large windows;
and the steeple is a tall spire supported on a square tower.
This church is a rectory, the advowson of which was in the Prioress
and Nuns of St. Helen’s in Bishopsgate street, till the suppression
of their convent in 1536, when falling to the Crown, it was
afterwards granted to the Bishop of London, who has ever since
collated and inducted to it. The Rector receives about 60_l._ a year
in lieu of tithes.
[Illustration:
_Eton College._
_S. Wale delin._ _J. Green sc. Oxon._
]
ETON COLLEGE, justly celebrated for the many learned men it has
produced, is situated in Buckinghamshire on the banks of the Thames
opposite to Windsor, and was founded by Henry VI. for the support of
a Provost and seven Fellows, one of whom is Vice-Provost, and for
the education of seventy King’s scholars, as those are called, who
are on the foundation. These when properly qualified, are elected,
on the first Tuesday in August, to King’s College, Cambridge, but
they are not removed, till there are vacancies in the college, and
then they are called according to seniority; and after they have
been three years at Cambridge, they claim a fellowship. Besides
those on the foundation, there are seldom less than three hundred
scholars, at this time there are many more, who board at the masters
houses, or within the bounds of the college. The school is divided
into upper and lower, and each of these into three classes. To each
school there is a master and four assistants or ushers. The revenue
of the college is about 5000_l._ a year. Here is a noble library
enriched by a fine collection of books left by Dr. Waddington,
Bishop of Chester, valued at 2000_l._ and Lord Chief Justice Reeves
presented to this library the collection left him by Richard Topham,
Esq; keeper of the records in the Tower. In the great court is a
fine statue of the founder, erected at the expence of the late
Provost Dr. Godolphin, Dean of St. Paul’s. The chapel is in a good
style of Gothic architecture. The schools and other parts, which are
in the other style of building, are equally well, and seem like the
design of Inigo Jones.
EVANGELISTS _court_, Stonecutters alley, Black Friars.
EVAN’S _court_, Basinghall street.†
EVAN’S _rents_, Grub street.†
EVAN’S _row_, Old Bond street.†
EVANS _yard_, Church street, Rotherhith.†
EVENY FARM, in Middlesex, is situated between the streams of the Coln,
on the north side of Stanes, and belongs to the Dean and Chapter of
Westminster.
EUNUCH _court_, Near Goodman’s yard.‡
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