The history and antiquities of the parish of Hackney in the county of Middlesex / [William Robinson].

  • William Robinson
Date:
1842-1843
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Credit: The history and antiquities of the parish of Hackney in the county of Middlesex / [William Robinson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ei Dh ee . who a are ng the Inv vt : fob Caine of Uestiresy ‘on the ‘History a ture of London, under the guidance of ‘Mr. All | Walker, visited Hackney Parish Church a ‘| Church Institute on Saturday. Mr. Walker « | that Hackney lay on the western side of the Era | Street, the road which ran from Dover through London to York, and it derived its name from Haccan, a Dane | who had a farm or cultivated island i in the middle ‘of | | the marsh there. Hackney Behe famous for its im- | vortant people in Tudor times ‘and as late as 1756 | Maitland said it excelled all other villages in the King- | & | dom for its riches and the opulence of its inhabitants. | Henry VIII. granted the manor to Percy Earl of | | Northumberland, who effected the arrest of Cardinal a Wolsey, and the Earl’s monument and funeral helmet | ' were still to be seen in the Dorel nating been removed from the old church. The tomb of Lady ‘Latimer, {| | daughter of the Duke of Somerset, was also there, | 4 bearing a quaint inscription, | regarding her daughte | Earl of Northumberland poe pacer to-wife;, 74 | The nexte the heire of. hie fy leigh chose; | Cornwallis Happ the third for ASS of difes\8 NS And Sir J John ‘Danvers: pluckt the youngest rose. | “The stocks in the churchyard, one of the only t } srminin f in London, were inspected, and the stude | then paid a visit to the house where Thomas Sutt | founder of the Charterhouse, lived, and where | died in 1611. It. is now the. Church Institute, and ‘during some repairs in 1886 a skeleton in armour was | A Saat oh a subterranean: pela hin
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