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Title: The church of St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield. Its foundation, present condition, and funeral monuments
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Moore, Norman,1847-1922
Subjects: Rahere, d. 1144 St. Bartholomew the Great (London, England)
Publisher: (West Smithfield) W. H. & L. Collingridge
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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to give its printerthe title of Typographus Regius Unguis oriental-ibus. He also printed, in 1655, a very usefullittle volume of instructions for reading the nineOriental languages of the Polyglot. In 1675,Thomas Roycrot was elected master of theStationers Company, and died two years later. Hie juxta situs estM. S.Thomas Eoycroft ArmigerLinguis orientalibus Typographus EegiusPlacidissimis moribus et antiqua Probitate ac FideMemorandusQuorum gratia optimi civis fama jure merito adeptus estMilitse Civicse vice tribunisNee minus apud exteros NotusOb Libros elegantissimis suis Typis EditosInter quos sanctissimum illudBibliorum PolyglottorumOpus quam maxime eminetObiit died 10 Augusti ann reparatse sal mdclxxviiPostquam lvi setatis suse annum implevisset Parenti Optime merito Samuel EoycroftPilius unicus, hoc monumentum pie posuit. Samuel Roycroft, in 1712, left some lotterytickets, the produce of which is still distributedevery year in alms by the rector and church-wardens of this parish.
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,r)2 THE CHURCH OF Just beyond this tablet the plain round archedvaulting of the ambulatory ceases, and twoloftier pointed arches, standing east and west,probably built early in the fifteenth century,mark the passage leading into the Lady Chapel.These arches were uncovered when the fringefactory was removed on the rebuilding of theapse in 1886. The brick wall east of and between thesearches is temporary, and has been built toprotect the church from lire. A door inthis wall at the top of a small flight of woodensteps leads into the Lady Chapel. Here arearranged several interesting fragments ofNorman work, some showing the originalcolour, a piece of a rafter of the roof of theLady Chapel, also showing painting, and agreat part of the Perpendicular tracery of theeast windows of the church. In the north wall of the Lady Chapel part ofits windows remain, and on the south, outside,the original buttresses are standing. Part ofthe unaltered crypt wall, with deeply splayedunglazed lights, and

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