Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times: With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.Phillimore, Lucy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Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times: With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.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
[5] Bishop Andrewes was so well pleased that he 'sent the moderator
(Dr. Meade), the answerer (Mr. M. Wren), the varier, and one of
the repliers that were all of his house (i.e. Pembroke), twenty
angels apiece.' _Life of Bishop Andrewes_, Lib. Anglo-Catholic
Theology, p. xxi.
[6] _Life of Bishop Andrewes_, Lib. Anglo-Catholic Theology, p.
xvii.
[7] _Cypr. Ang._, p. 100. Heylin.
[8] Edmund Waller, born March 3, 1605. He was connected by his
marriage with Cromwell, and wrote one of his best poems as a
panegyric on the Protector, but was supposed to be a Cavalier at
heart and rejoiced at the Restoration; died 1687.
[9] 'A transcript of a certain narrative written by the late Bishop
of Ely (Dr. Matthew Wren) with his own hand, of that remarkable
conference, which after his return from Spain with Prince
Charles, 1636, he had with Dr. Neile, then Bishop of Durham, Dr.
Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, and Dr. Laud, Bishop of S.
David's, touching the said Prince, whereat something prophetical
was then said by that Reverend Bishop of Winchester.' Printed
from a MS. in the Ashmolean Museum. _Life of Bishop Andrewes_,
Lib. Anglo-Catholic Theology, p. lvii.
[10] _Life of Bishop Andrewes_, Lib. Anglo-Catholic Theology, p. x.
[11] _Cypr. Ang._, p. 59. Heylin.
[12] Evelyn, who visited Cambridge in 1655, says of Peterhouse, 'a
pretty neate college having a delicate chappell.'
The chapel, especially the west front, of S. Peter's College, is
one of the best specimens of the Renaissance Art at
Cambridge.--_Hist. of Modern Architecture_, p. 275. Fergusson.
[13] _Beauties of England and Wales_ (Cambridgeshire).
[14] _Life of Archbishop Juxon_, p. 27. Rev. W. H. Marah.
[15] _Annals of England_, p. 407.
[16] _Eccles. Hist._, vol. ix. p. 388, ed. 1841, Collier, where the
office may be found entire.
[17] _Cypr. Ang._, introduction, p. 9. Heylin.
[18] 'On August 29, 1636 (the plague then raging in London), King
Charles, the Queen, and the Court arrived at Oxford. The
Chancellor (Archbishop Laud), the Vice-Chancellor, and numerous
doctors and masters went out to meet the royal retinue. The
Chancellor, accompanied by the Lord Treasurer (Bishop Juxon),
the Bishop of Winchester (Dr. Curle), the Bishop of Norwich (Dr.
M. Wren), and the Bishop of Oxford (Dr. Bancroft), rode in a
coach.' The Court was entertained with very brilliant
festivities, and a series of masks and interludes arranged by
Inigo Jones.--_Oxfordshire Annals_, p. 25, by J. M. Davenport.
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