Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times: With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.Phillimore, Lucy
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Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times: With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.
Phillimore, Lucy
Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Biography; Wren family; Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723
[199] The name is often supposed to originate in the patten-makers
who are said to have lived near, but its origin is more
probably 'S. Margaret _with the Paten_.'
[200] 'Not,' says Evelyn (_Diary_, May 18, 1688), 'that they were
averse to the publisheing of it for want of due tendernesse
towards Dissenters ... but that the Declaration being founded
on such a dispensing power as might at pleasure set aside all
laws ecclesiastical, it appeared to them illegal and ... a
point of such consequence that they could not so far make
themselves parties to it as the reading of it in church during
the time of Divine Service would have done.' They were sent to
the Tower June 8, for refusing to give bail for their
appearance. They refused on the ground that to do so would
have prejudiced their peerage. The bishops were Francis Turner
of Ely, William Lloyd of S. Asaph, Thomas Ken of Bath and
Wells, John Lake of Chichester, Sir Jonathan Trelawney of
Bristol, Thomas White of Peterborough, and William Sancroft,
Archbishop of Canterbury.
[201] The mechanical part is done by the women convicts of Woking
Gaol.
[202] _New View of London_, vol. ii. p. 423.
[203] Canto i. Samuel Garth, a physician of some fame, who provided
for Dryden's funeral in Westminster Abbey. Died 1718.
[204] Newgate.
[205] See Appendix ii.
[206] R. I. B. A. Sessional Papers, 1876-7, p. 162.
[207] Horace Walpole says that Wren's descendant assured him that
Sir C. Wren had prepared a far better design for Hampton Court
which Queen Mary preferred, but it was overruled by William
III. This may only mean the cloisters, as Walpole is not
accurate.--_Anec._, vol. iii.
[208] This plan was adopted. Dr. Bathurst died in May 1704 at the
age of 86.
[209] So called from being in the street where formerly was a strong
tower where several kings, and Queen Philippa, Edward the
Third's wife, lodged, also called the Queen's Wardrobe, as the
building near S. Andrew's was the King's Wardrobe.--_New
View_, vol. ii. p. 427.
[210] 'The said Sir R. Whittington, as he was three times Lord
Mayor, was as often buried in this church; first, by his
executors under a fine monument; second, by the avaricious
parson for the riches he hoped to find; and a third time by
his friends, to interr him in lead under his monument as at
first.'--_New View_, p. 428.
[211] 'S. Vedast was Bishop of Arras, A.D. 484, a man of great
holiness and charity. Once he met with a cruel bear prowling
in the ruins of an old Christian church; at his command the
bear departed into the wilderness and never returned there
again. S. Vedast is usually pictured with a
bear.'--_Repertorium_, Newcourt, vol. i. p. 563.
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