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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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od\ from the leftshoulder to the outer side of the right foot was an 558 OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Westminster Hall. elaborately-carved wooden crozier. The remainswere afterwards placed in an elm coffin and re-interred near the place where they were discovered.A correspondent of the Globe newspaper, at thetime of the discovery, suggested that the body wasthat of Wilham Lyndwoode, Bishop of St. Davidsand Keeper of the Privy Seal, who founded achantry in the Chapel of St. Stephen by deed, anddied in 1446 ; as on reference to the patent-roll of32 Henry IIL, M. 4, there will be found an entry said bishop whose body lies buried in the saidUnder-Chapel, &c. Close by Westminster Hall was a noted coffee-house, known to ears polite and not polite alikeby the name of Hell —very much (it has beenwittily remarked) as the Devil Tavern adjoinedthe Temple. It is comically recorded in the Somerset HouseGazette:— First day of Term opens with a furioushurricane ; . . a dozen country attorneys break-
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ST. Stephens cloisters. cf a licence, dated 19th of July, from the Kingto Robert Pyke, clerk, and Adrian (Irenebough,executors of William Lyndwoode, lately Bishop ofSt. Davids and Keeper of the Privy Seal, for thefoundation of a perpetual chantry in the Under-Chapel of St. Stephen, within the Kings Palaceof Westminster, for two perpetual chaplains, or atleast for one perpetual chaplain, to celebrate divineservice daily in the aforesaid Chapel, or one ofthem in the Under-Chapel (St. Marys), and theother at the Chapel of St. Mary de la Pewe, situatednear the Kings said Chapel of St. Stephen, forthe healthful estate of the King and his consortMargaret, Queen of England, and their souls whenthey shall die; and also for the soul of the afore- fast in Hell. There was apparently anothercoffee-liouse hard by, called the Bell, much fre-quented by those who attended the Law Courts ;for in the same work we read: juries swallowtheir claret in the afternoon at the Bell at ^\est-minster, as they sw

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