Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times: With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.Phillimore, Lucy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Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times: With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.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
Charles II., escape of, after the battle of Worcester, 91;
letter of, to Monk from Breda, 112;
entry of, into London, 117;
encouragement given by, to the founding of the Royal Society,
124, 130;
spirited behaviour of, at the Fire of London, 156;
first stone of the Royal Exchange laid by, 178;
portion of the tax on coal given to building of S. Paul's by,
198;
palace at Newmarket built for, 225;
death of, 246
Chelsea College, building of the hospital at, 239, 240, 300, 326,
327
Chichester, sack of, by the Parliamentary troops, 79, 123
-- cathedral of, spire repaired by Wren, 243
Christ Church, Newgate, repaired by Wren, 260
Christ Church, Oxford, gateway at, built by Wren, 232
'Church Quarterly Review,' the, 65, 123
Cibber, Caius, 207
City churches, the. _See_ Names of Churches.
For complete list of, see Appendix II., 338
City Church and Churchyard Protection Society, 191;
Report of, 205
City companies' halls rebuilt by Wren, 266.
For list of, see Appendix II., 339
Clarendon, Lord, 19, 20, 23, 47, 110, 121, 160
Claypole, Richard, 99
Coal, portion of tax on, granted for the rebuilding of S. Paul's,
198
Coghill, Faith, 91, 176, 177
Collier, 'Ecclesiastical History,' 20
Common Prayer. _See_ Prayer Book
Compton, Bishop of London, 220, 279, 323, 324
Convocation, meeting of, in S. Paul's (1661), 119, 120
Corbet, Bishop of Norwich, of Oxford, 22, 24, 27, 215
Cosin, Dean of Peterborough, Bishop of Durham, 153
Coverdale, Bishop Miles, 219
Cowley, Abraham, 124, 147
Cromwell, Oliver, 9, 91, 99, 102
Cromwell, Richard, 103
Custom-house, the, rebuilt by Wren, 176
Dale, Rev. T. P., rector of S. Vedast's, Foster Lane, imprisonment
of, 273
Davenport, 'Oxfordshire Annals,' 25
'Decoy Duck,' the, a pamphlet against Archbishop Williams, 59
Denham, Sir John, 127, 139
De Ros, Lord, 'The Tower of London,' 211
Dore, Abbey of, 19
Doyley, 'Life of Sancroft,' 165, 166
Dunton, John, leader of the expedition against the Sallee
pirates, 20
Duppa, Dr. Brian, Bishop of Salisbury, appointed executor of
Archbishop Laud's will, 71;
Archbishop Tenison secretly ordained by, 123
East Knoyle, living of, held by Dr. Wren, 31, 32, 33
Elmes, 'Life of Sir C. Wren,' 90, 97, 200, 230
Ely, 44, 45
Ely House, 118, 119
Ely, Bishop of. _See_ Wren; Turner
Emmanuel College, Chapel of, built by Wren, 215, 216
Evelyn, John, 'Diary' of, 15, 49, 50, 51, 89, 93, 94, 95, 99, 114,
117, 118, 127, 145, 146, 154, 155, 181, 206, 209, 215, 217,
226, 228, 229, 230, 242, 244, 260, 286, 287, 302
-- -- death of, 304
Exchange. _See_ Royal Exchange
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