The original Picture of London (1826) (14591360757)

Identifier: originalpictureo00felt (find matches)
Title: The original Picture of London
Year: 1826 (1820s)
Authors: (Feltham, John) (from old catalog) Britton, John, 1771-1857
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Publisher: London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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on,by honourable posts under government, or by the suc-cess of his enterprises against the Spaniards. In a privateer,he took a Spanish prize worth twenty thousand pounds.He also commanded the bark called the Sutton, as avolunteer against the Spanish Armada. In years ofscarcity, he bought corn in large quantities, and caused itto be retailed at low prices to his poor neighbours. Hedied in December, 1611, aged 79. His body was em-balmed, and kept in his own house till the following May,when it was deposited with great pomp in Christ-Churcy,whence it was again removed, on the shoulders of thepoor, to the chapel in his own hospital, when finished.His effigy, in a gown, is placed in a recumbent attitudeupon his tomb : on each side is a man in armour, erect,and above, a preacher, represented as in the act of ad-dressing his audience. Westminster School, Deans Yard, was founded in 1560,by Queen Elizabeth, for forty boys, called the QueensScholars, who receive an education to prepare them for
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