Some account of London / [Thomas Pennant].

  • Thomas Pennant
Date:
1793
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Some account of London / [Thomas Pennant]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RAVAGED BY FANATICAL FURY, leen the rings to which the overflowings of the Lollards tower were chained. After the civil wars of the laft century, when fanatical was united with political fury, it was found that every building de- voted to piety, had buffered more than they had done in all the rage of family eonteft. The fine works of art, and the facred memorials of the dead, were, except in a few cafes, facrificed to puritanical barbarifm, or to facrilegious plunder. Lambeth fell to the fhare of the mifcreant regicide Scot. He turned the chapel into a hall, and levelled, for that purpofe, the fine monument of archbifhop Parker: he pulled down the noble hall, the work of Chichely, and fold the materials for his own profit. Juxon, on the Reftoration, found the palace of his predeceiTors a heap of ruins*. His piety rebuilt a greater part than could have been expedted from the fhort time he enjoyed the primacy. He rebuilt the great- hall on the antient model, when the archbifhop with his particu- lar friends fat at the high table: the fleward with the fervants, who were gentry of the better rank, fat at the table on the right hand, fide: the almoner, the clergy, and others, occupied the table oa the left. None but nobility or privy counfellors were admitted to the table of the archbifhop. The bifhops themfelves fat* at the almoner’s 3 the other guefts at the fteward’s. All the meat which was not confumed, was regularly given to the idle poor, who waited in crowds at the gate. It is not the defect of charity in modern prelates that this cuftom is difufed; but the happy; change in the times. Every one mult now eat the bread of his* own indufhy 3 a much more certain fupport than the cafual bounty of the great; which misfortunes often prevented, and left the objedt a prey to mifery and famine. What is ftyled the luxury g£ Fanati Fury. n*
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