Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times: With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.Phillimore, Lucy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Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times: With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.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
Andrewes, Lancelot, Dean of Westminster, Bishop of Chichester,
of Ely, of Winchester, kindness of, to Matthew Wren, 6, 7;
his prophecy, 10, 13;
his death, 14;
funeral of, at St. Saviour's, Southwark, 15;
care of, in giving church preferment, 31;
chaplain sent to the New Forest by, 40;
appointment of Mr. Bois by, 46;
quoted by Bishop Wren, 62;
church views of, 120;
legacy of, to Pembroke College library, 134
'Annals of England,' 20, 58, 77, 122
Anne, Queen, 300, 301, 305, 317, 320, 327
'Annual Register,' the (1765), 174
Arches Court, The, origin of the name, 184
Architecture, 119, 148, 150, 171, 184, 197, 240, 268, 290, 329;
Discourse on, by Sir C. Wren. _See_ Appendix III., 340
Artillery Company, the, 185
Ashburnham, Mr., 75
Ashmole, Mr. Elias, founder of the Ashmolean Museum, 217
Atterbury, Dean of Westminster, and Bishop of Rochester, 203, 209
Aubrey, the Wiltshire Antiquary, 91
Ayliffe's 'Oxford,' 125, 141
Bancroft, Archbishop, 14
Barrow, Dr. Isaac, eulogy of, on Christopher Wren, 128, 129
Barwick, Dr., Dean of Durham, of S. Paul's, 'Life of,' 72, 76, 85,
110, 112, 115, 120, 140
Bathurst, Dr., 144, 145, 270, 271
'Beauties of England and Wales,' 16
Bedloe, witness in the Popish plot, 227
Benson, William, appointed by George I. to supersede Wren, 329, 330
Bernini, Giov., 145, 149
Billing, A., 'Restoration of the Church of S. Sepulchre,' 183
Bird, Francis, sculptor, 300, 304
'Black Book of the Garter,' the, 4, 68
Blenheim Palace, building of, by Vanbrugh, 286
Blenheim, victory of (1704), 301
'Blue Book of the Garter,' the, 68
Blunt, 'Key to the Holy Bible,' 46
Bois, Mr. John, 46
Bow Church. _See_ S. Mary-le-Bow
Boyle, Robert, 283
Brewster, Sir David, 'Life of Newton,' 330
British Association, the, report of, for 1859, 333
Brouncker, Lord, 124, 126, 143
Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, 279
Burton, Henry, 251
Busby, Dr., head-master of Westminster, 41, 300
Bushnell, John, 179
Butler, Bishop of Bristol, 65
Butler, Samuel, 130
Cambridge, 6, 15, 45, 216
Canova, Antonio, 192
Catechism, the, clergy compelled to use, 22, 50
Cave, Dr. William, 240
Cemeteries, Wren's plan for placing outside London, 307
Chardin, Sir John, 230, 231
Charles I., his journey to Spain as Prince of Wales, 7-9;
his coronation in Scotland, 16;
sets up his standard at Nottingham (1642), 60;
sends a pardon to Laud, 70;
his flight from Oxford, 75;
his death, 86;
his bust by Bernini, 149;
proposed monument to, 209, 210
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