Identifier: cathedralsabbeys01bonn (find matches)
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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nners Sutton, of Canterbury; James Henry Monk, of Gloucester; Thomas Turton, of Ely ; John James Stewart Perowne, of Worcester. James Duport, professor of Greek at Cambridge, and Thomas Nevill, master of Trinity, were also deans here. John Williams, the famous Bishop of Lincoln; John Pocklington, the author, of Sunday no Sabbath, persecuted by the Parliament and deprived of his referments; John Bridgeman, Bishop of Chester, are among the prebendaries. On the west wall of the cathedral hangs a very quaint portrait, with someverses painted on the wall beneath. This is a copy of a picture of Richard Scarlett, sexton, who died in 1594, at the age of ninety-eight. 180 CA 1II ED R AI J CHURCHES. (PBTERnOUOCOU. In the verses we read:— ** He had interd two queenes within this place, And this townes householders in his lives space Twice over. The two queens were Catharine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII, and Mary of Scots, his sisters grand-daughter. The former was interred in the north
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VIEW FROM THE SOUTH-EAST. choir aisle in 1536; the latter in the corresponding position in the south choir aisle in 1587. At one time handsome hearses were over both these tombs. An account has been preserved of a so-called miracle wrought at the hearse of Queen Catharine; and, curiously enough, the Westminster tomb of Mary of Scots has been made the scene of miracles. For the divorced wife of Henry VIII. a simple table monument was erected. Some persons who defaced it were imprisoned until the damage was made good. There is no need to reject the familiar story that the minster itself is her noblest monument, being spared, when others were sacrificed, because it had become her burial-place. The actual monument was repaired at his own cost by one of the prebendaries, John Taylor, who held a stall from 1685 to 1726. It is said that he cut the inscription with his own hand. All has now been wholly removed, and there is left a plainbody stone in the floor, with a small broken brass plate, a few inc

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