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Title: Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923
Subjects: Cathedrals Church architecture Abbeys Church architecture
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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t on this site, early in thesixteenth century, London was quite distinct from Westminster; and then, and fora full century after, St. Martins Lane was bordered by hedges and shaded by trees.In the vaults of St. Martins or in the graveyard many noteworthy per-sonages have been interred. Here were laid two eminent criminals—JackSheppard and Anne Tmiier, the latter executed in her yellow starched ruffs,for the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury. With these we may reckon Lord Moliun,killed in the duel which ended in the Duke of Hamiltons murder. The nameof Sii Edmund Berry (or Edmondsbury) Godfrey recalls the dark epochs of Titus 31G ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. (St. Maetins-in-the-Fields. Gates and the so-called Popish Plot. Nell Gwynne—poor Nelly—is buried here.The ringers should have a kindly thought for her, for she left some money forthem, and a severer critic than they, Bishop Tenison, preached a funeral sermonfor the frail but good-hearted woman. Winston Churchill lies here, father of the
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ST. MAKT1ns-IN-THE-PIELDS, from TRAFALGAR SQUARE. Great Duke of Marlborough ; poets and actors, painters and sculptors, also resthere—most of them of second rather than of first rank, except the great Roubiliac.For many years the body of John Hunter, the famous surgeon, lay in the vaults ofSt. Martins. After a persevering search the coffin was found by Frank Buckland,and was transferred to a more honourable resting-place in Westminster Abbey. T. G. BONNEY, SHERBORNE AND DORCHESTER. TWO FORSAKEN BISHOPRICS.

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