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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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aim it, so a city has it remained down to thepresent day. Its Honour was raised into a Marcjuisate by William IV. in 1831, in favour ofthe then head of the Grosvenor family, whose pro-perty, within the limits of its several parishes, fully his death in 1865, the mitre was bestowed by his Holiness on Dr. Manning as his successor. As for the early history of the fair city of West-minster, we fear that, like that of Rome under thekings, it is a little mixed up with fable. It owedits first beginning as a place of importance, nodoubt, to its Abbey, or Minster, already mentioned.The first historical church was erected here duringthe Heptarchy, by Sebert, King of the East Saxons, or (according to Camden) of the East and Middle Saxons. Sebert, who, under his uncle Ethelbert, had been liretwald, or Lord Paramount of the Anglo-Saxons, and like his uncle, had been converted tothe Christian faith by the preaching of Melitus, one of the companions of St. Augustine, the Roman Westminster.) EARLY HISTORY
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OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Westminster. missionar), is by some writers said to have de- jstroyed a pagan temple on Thorney Island, and tohave erected on its site a church which he dedi-cated to St. Peter. As Ethelbert died in a.d. 606,and Sebert followed him to the grave soon after,we can fix the date of the foundation of the church with tolerable accuracy, as we read that both Sebert and his wife were buried in the Church of St. Peter jin the Island of Thorney. Some writers havesought to carry the antic^uity of the church to a jmuch earlier date, and with that object in view )have affirmed that St. Peter himself visited Britain, Iand erected there a small chapel or oratory. Others, Icontenting themselves with a more moderate draftupon the faith of their readers, ascribe the firstsacred building on this spot to King Lucius^ whoreigned here in the second century, and who is saidby tradition to have built here a church out of theruins of a heathen temple, which had been over-thrown by an earthq

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