Volume 2

A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent ... being an improvement of Mr. Stow's, and other surveys, by adding whatever alterations have happened in the said cities, &c., to the present year ... / By Robert Seymour, Esq.; [i.e. John Mottley] The whole being an improvement of Mr. Stow's, and other surveys.

  • John Stow
Date:
1734-1735
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent ... being an improvement of Mr. Stow's, and other surveys, by adding whatever alterations have happened in the said cities, &c., to the present year ... / By Robert Seymour, Esq.; [i.e. John Mottley] The whole being an improvement of Mr. Stow's, and other surveys. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Of the Government 0/ LONDON, Ecclefaftical, Civil and Military. > f Vf.v. CHAP. I. Tie ■ Ecclejiajtical Government of LONDON. A VIN G now gone through the Defcription of the City of L O N D O N, as well in its Original Foundaticai, as in its Increafe of Buildings and Ornaments, fdmething remains to be faid of its Po¬ licy and Go^nernraent. Firji, To begin with the Ecclefiaftical Jurifdi<5tion ; the Chriftian Faith is faid to have been firft preached in this Ifland by J-ofeph of Armathea, and his Brethren, Dif- ciples of Chriji, in the Time of Ar^iragns, then Governor of Britain^ under the Roman Empe¬ ror. After which Time, LuciUSy King of tlm Britons y fent his Ambafladors, Ehamts and Medtivinusy two Men learned in the ScriptureSj with Letters to F.lenthcriuSy Bifhop of Romcy defiring him to fend feme devout and learned No I. VoL. IL Men, by whofe Inftrufifion, he and his People might be taught the Faith and Religion of Chrift. Eleuthcrius baptized thofe Meflengers^ making Elvatius a Bilhop, and Modavinus a Teacher, and fent two other famous Clerks, Eagnnus and Demvianns y over into Britain with them, by whofe Jf 'iW^cviCc Lumas and'his People were inllrufled in the Chriltian Religion, and baptized ; die Temples of their Idols were converted into Cathedral Churches, and Bifliops were placed, where Flames had been before^ At LON DO N, JTorky and Carhoii upon Uskcy were placed Archbilhops. The Epidle, faid'to be fent by Eleutherius to King Luciusy for eftablifiiing the Faith, may be found in StesfLs Annals : In fome other Authors it has been curtailed and corrupted, and then fathered upon venerable Bede^ who fays nothing more than wnat follows: • B !!
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