London, Volume 3
Knight, Charles
1842
LXXIV.--Ely Place.
LXXIV.--Ely Place.
Pausing the other day on to mark the gallant efforts of a team of horses to draw some more than usually heavy load up the steep acclivity, and wondering if this dangerous nuisance would ever be removed, our eyes, as they turned away from the contemplation of the painful and apparently hopeless task, fell upon a printed notice, which stated that divine worship was duly performed at certain periods in Chapel. The notice was attached to the iron gates enclosing the quiet and respectable-looking locality known as Ely Place, immediately opposite St. Andrew's Church and Churchyard, where rests in death poor Chatterton. And who was St. Etheldreda? A Saxon saint? And why had a modern Chapel been dedicated to such an antique personage? Or was the Chapel of St. Etheldreda a relic of the once famous Palace of the Bishops of Ely? We may here observe that it is a peculiarity of London, that whilst few cities are richer with the there are none which, having such wealth, present to the cursory glance fewer evidences of it. The progress of street improvements, the rage for building wherever a vacant space could be pounced upon, and the little reverence felt for edifices having no claims of the strictly useful kind to put forward, have all conspired to destroy a | |
370 | interesting vestiges of the past, and to shut up the remainder in all sorts of corners and bye-ways. In passing from extremity of London to another, say from Whitechapel to , or from Common to , scarcely sees half a dozen edifices that directly remind us of events above a century or old; but, at the same time, let us suddenly stop in almost any part of our wanderings, and inquire what memories of an older time do hang about the neighbourhood, and we are almost sure to find it rife with associations of the deepest interest; and if we step into the next solitary-looking street or alley, there is a very fair chance of our lighting upon some building which, however previously unfamiliar to the material eye, has often risen upon our imagination, crowded with the actors in a memorable story. |
In looking on St. Etheldreda's Chapel which stands a little back from the houses, near the centre on the left hand, we perceive very plainly in its age and the beauty of the single but very large window which forms the front before us, that its antique name is no pretence, and that it is doubtless the episcopal and palatial building. But how altered in every other respect is the entire aspect of the neighbourhood, even from what it was only years ago! Let us imagine ourselves entering the precincts from at some such period. The original gate-house, where the Bishop's armed retainers were wont to keep watch and ward in the old style, was now gone, and we entered from at once upon a small paved court, having on the right various offices supported by a colonnade, and on the left a wall dividing the court from the garden. The garden of Ely Place! Does not that word recall to our readers the incident which, having found its way into the pages of our great poet, has made Ely Place a household word, and given to the locality a charm that will outlive all local changes, and make it still famous when not stone shall remain upon another of anything that belonged to Ely Place? We allude of course to Richard III. (then Duke of Gloucester) and the strawberries. How closely Shakspere followed the historical truth, we see in the following passage from Holinshed, where he describes the scene in the Tower which ended in the sudden execution of Hastings:-- a curious preliminary to the murderous act which the Protector was then meditating. The Bishop himself was that same morning arrested with Lord Stanley and others by the strawberry-loving Gloucester. This garden seems to have been altogether an object of care with the episcopal owners; for, at a later period, we | |
371 | shall find the Bishop, when obliged to grant it on a lease to Sir Christopher Hatton, stipulating for the right of walking in it, and of gathering bushels of roses yearly. |
Passing from the court we reached the entrance to the great hall, which extended along in front and to our left. This fine edifice, measuring about feet in height, in breadth, and in length, was originally built with stone, and the roof covered with lead. The interior, lighted by fine Gothic windows, was very interesting. It had its ornamental timber roof, its tiled and probably originally chequered floor, its oaken screen at end, and its dais at the other; and when filled with some of the brilliant and picturesque-looking crowds that have met under its roof, must have presented a magnificent spectacle. Here when driven from the Savoy by Wat Tyler and his associates, who burnt it, exercised no doubt the hospitality common to the great barons of the feudal ages, in all its prodigality: he died in the palace/in . And here have been held some of the most memorable of feasts: those formerly given by the newly-elected-serjeants of law. The of Michaelmas Term, , is only noticeable from the circumstance, that when the Lord Mayor came to the banquet, and found a certain nobleman, Grey of Ruthin, then Lord Treasurer of England, advanced to the chief seat of state, instead of himself, as according to custom he conceived ought to have been done, he marched off with all his aldermen to his own :house, where he compensated his faithful adherents by a splendid banquet. But some of the other serjeants' feasts at Ely Place were attended by features of greater interest. Thus at the which took place in , Henry VII. was present with his quoteueen. This was of the occasions on which the victor of Bosworth strove to correct a little the effect of his sordid habits, his general seclusion, and his gloomy, inscrutable nature, which altogether prevented him from obtaining the popularity which is agreeable to most monarchs, even to those the least inclined to purchase it at any considerable cost. says his great historian Bacon, The last incident of this kind that we shall mention was also of the most splendid; and the particulars preserved in connection with it afford some curious glimpses of the economy of a great dinner in those days. In new serjeants were made at once, and it was determined that the feast should be proportionably splendid. As Stow remarks, it were to set down the entire if we did: we therefore extract a few only of the items which composed this gigantic bill of fare; and which are interesting as showing how the relative value of money and provisions have altered. There were or oxen, at each, and at ; at ; at ; (or boars), at ; pigs; at ; dozen capons of Greece of poulter, d; dozen and capons of Kent, at ; innumerable pullets, at and , pigeons at d, and larks the dozen; and, lastly, there were doze swans at a price not mentioned. The entertainment lasted days; and on Monday, the principal | |
372 | day (), the King, Henry VIII., and his quoteueen, Catherine, dined with the Serjeants,
parenthetically remarks Stow. At this very time the final measures were in progress for the divorce of the unhappy quoteueen, and the marriage with Anne Boleyn. Besides these distinguished personages, the foreign ambassadors honoured the Serjeants with their presence, who had also a chamber to themselves. In the hall sat, at the chief table, Nicholas Lambard, the Lord Mayor; the question of precedency having evidently been decided in favour of the civic dignitary. With him were the Judges, Barons of , and certain Aldermen. The Master of the Rolls and the Master of the Chancery were supported at the board on the south side by numerous worshipful citizens; whilst on the north side of the hall sat more aldermen, with merchants and others. And these filled the lower part of the hall. The remainder, comprising knights, esquires, and gentlemen, were placed in the gallery, in the cloisters, which extended round a large quadrangle behind the hall, and, still more room being demanded, in the chapel. At the same time all the different crafts of London banqueted in their halls; whilst, curious enough, the parties chiefly concerned, the Serjeants of Law and their wives, kept in their own chamber. |
Animating and picturesque as must have been the hall of Ely Place at such times, there was yet other period. when it must have exhibited a scene almost without parallel. Here were arranged all the details of that famous masque, with its attendant anti-masque, which we have already briefly noticed in our account of [n.372.1] (reserving the detailed description of its principal features --the arrangement and the procession--for the present paper), and from hence it departed. Not the least interesting circumstances attending this splendid pageant are the character and position of the men who, as we shall presently perceive, had the management of the affair, and of him who has made himself its historian. This is Whitelock, the learned and estimable lawyer, who, during the period preceding, comprising, and following the Commonwealth, enjoyed the respect of all parties, and has left us of the most valuable records of the momentous events he witnessed and participated in. His heart was evidently in this masque and anti-masque, from the pains he takes to describe it, and the space he devotes to it in his great work. The year before the getting up of the masque Prynne had published his just mentioned a tremendous invective against plays and players, masques and masquers, and generally against sport and amusement of every kind. The quoteueen Henrietta. Maria, about the same time, acted a part in a play or pastoral with her maids of honour, so that Prynne's remarks told personally against the court; and to this circumstance, as well as to his being in Laud's hands, may be attributed the infamous severity of Prynne's punishment. But before that punishment took place, the members of the Inns of Court designing a masque it was whispered to them from the court So the benchers members from each house were accordingly chosen to form together a committee, among whom were Whitelock himself, Edward Hyde (afterwards Lord Clarendon), and Selden. These set to work; each member undertaking some particular portion of the important whole, Whitelock's share being the music, and very indefatigable in his vocation, as well as proud of it, he seems to have been. He thus shows us how he performed his task. I made choice, of Mr. Simon Ivy, an honest and able musician, of excellent skill in his art, and of Mr. Lawes (a name familiar to every lover of Milton), to compose the airs, lessons, and songs for the masque, and to be master of all the music under me. English, French, Italians, Germans, and other masters of music; lutes at time, beside other instruments in concert. the masquers, horsemen, musicians, dancers, and all that were actors in this business, according to order, met at Ely House in ; there the grand committee sat all day to order all affairs; and when the evening was come, all things being in full readiness, they began to set forth in this order down to . In reading the following description, we must not forget to keep in view all through it the dark background of a winter evening, and the crowds of spectators lining the whole way from the gates of Ely House to those of :-- | |
After this and the rest of the anti-masques were passed followed chariots with musicians, chariots with heathen gods and goddesses, then more chariots with musicians, and going immediately next before the grand masquer's chariot. This Its colours were silver and crimson, Similar chariots similarly occupied followed from each of the other inns of court, the only difference being in the colours. And thus the procession reached , where the king, from a window of the Banqueting House, (perhaps the very through which he passed afterwards to the scaffold,) beheld, with his queen, the whole pageant pass before him; and so delighted were the royal spectators, that a message was sent to the marshal, requesting him to conduct the procession round the Tilt Yard opposite, that they might have a view. This done they entered the palace, where the masque, to which all this was but as a preliminary, began; says Whitelock; Henrietta Maria was so charmed with everything, that she determined to have the whole repeated shortly after. The night, or rather, we presume, morning, ended with dances, in which the queen and her ladies of honour were led out by the principal masquers. The expenses of this spectacle were not less than ;
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Continuing our view of the palatial remains as they were years ago:- | |
376 | beyond the hall, and touching it at the north-west corner, were the cloisters, enclosing a quadrangle nearly square, of great size, and having in the midst a small garden, made perhaps after the grant of the principal garden to Hatton. Over the cloisters were long, antique-looking galleries, with the doors and windows of various apartments appearing at the back: in the latter traces of painted glass, the remnants of former splendour, were still visible. Lastly, at the north-west corner of the cloisters, planted with trees and surrounded with a wall, stood the chapel, now the only remain of all that we have. described, and of the still more numerous buildings that at time constituted the palace of the Bishops of Ely. From this description we perceive the changes that years have wrought; and we may here observe, as a passing illustration of the general history of the neighbourhood, that in the maps of London, of the date of , we see on this side of only a single row of houses with gardens at the back; we see , as a lane, merely opening to the fields ; whilst stands in a fair meadow, with a footpath across it, and bounded by Turnmill Brook and the wall of the garden of Ely Place. |
The subjects that have hitherto engaged our attention--the feasts and the masque--were incidental occurrences in the records of the Palace, having no connexion with any of the objects of its foundation. These we have accordingly dismissed , and may now pursue, without interruption, the more direct history. | |
The earliest notice of Ely Place refers to the concluding part of the century. John de Kirkeby, appointed Bishop of Ely in , left by will a messuage and cottages to form the foundation of a residence for his successors, suitable to their rank. The next bishop, De Luda, who died in , still further carried out the views of his predecessor, and most probably erected the chapel; as we find that a bequest, contained in his will, was accompanied with the condition that his immediate successor should give for the support of chaplains: De Luda himself left houses for them, The cha. pel was dedicated to St. Etheldreda, the patron saint of the cathedral church of Ely, and a noticeable personage. She was the daughter of Anna, King of the West Angles, and was born about in Suffolk. She had husbands, her being Tonbert, an East Anglian nobleman, her Egfrid, King of Northumberland; but she persevered, Having obtained Egfrid's consent to her retirement from court, she took the veil; and, when her husband again brought her to his home, she fled to the Isle of Ely, part of her dower with her husband, Tonbert. Here she began the erection of the cathedral, assisted by her brother Adulphus, King of the East Angles. [n.377.1] She died, as good a saint as she had lived, of a contagious disorder, which she had foretold would carry away herself and a certain number of her household; and was buried, by her express orders, in a wooden coffin, in the common cemetery of the nuns. | |
Bishop Hotham was the next benefactor to the episcopal residence, and by him the whole appears to have been brought into a state of completeness. Camden speaks of Ely Place as Among the other and subsequent prelates who have contributed largely to its extension or improvement is the well-known Arundel, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, who expended great sums here in repairing and adorning the whole, and who erected a handsome and large front towards , in the stone-work of which his arms remained in Stow's time. And thus by various individuals, and at different times, was Ely Place at last made of the most splendid of metropolitan mansions. And now, following the usual course of most history, which, as soon as it has described the rise and complete prosperity of its subject, whether empires, institutions, or, as in the present case, an individual edifice, has immediately to trace the successive steps of the decline and fall, we pass on to narrate the proceedings which form the most interesting portions of the history of Ely Place. | |
At the commencement of the reign of Elizabeth an act was passed, empowering the quoteueen, on any episcopal or archiepiscopal vacancy, to take any lands belonging to the see, paying the value in tenths and impropriate rectories. This bill was opposed by various ecclesiastics, and among them who was destined to be a victim to the exercise of the power. This was Dr. Cox, afterwards Bishop of Ely. Whilst this prelate held the see, there came day to court, in a masque, a gentleman who attracted Elizabeth's particular attention, it is said for his elegant person and graceful dancing, but also, probably, for the vivacity and entertainment of his conversation. This was a young Templar, who had already distinguished himself among his companions, as of the authors of the tragedy of performed by the society to which he belonged before the quoteueen in . Elizabeth now made him of her Pensioners, next a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, then Captain of the Guard, Vice- Chancellor, and Privy Counsel; and, lastly, to the astonishment of every body, Sir Christopher Hatton appeared as Lord Chancellor. The lawyers were unable to stifle their indignation. They thought, with Fuller, and yet he was raised to the highest honours of the profession! Some of the serjeants at law refused to plead before him. But Hatton, though neither a deeply read nor an eminently practical lawyer, had sagacity and firmness enough to hold at | |
378 | once his. place, and prove himself in effect qualified for it. In all doubtful cases he was
accustomed to have the advice of or legal
friends who possessed what he was deficient of; and the result was, after all, that Lord
Chancellor Hatton's decisions held by no-means a low reputation in the courts of law. It was
whilst Sir Christopher was in the high road to prosperity, but some years before he attained
the Chancellorship, that he took a fancy to a portion of Ely Place as a residence, and induced
the quoteueen to be his negotiator. Bishop Cox was unwilling, but who can say to a quoteueen, unless, indeed, in the last extremity? So, on the , Sir Christopher's heart was gladdened with a, grant of Sir Christopher immediately entered upon possession, bought some little tenements near it, and laid out nearly in the improvement of the estate. This done, Sir Christopher thought he should very much like to have the property in perpeuity, instead of by the tenure of a few years' lease, so he once more goes to the quoteueen, and desires her good offices. The mode in which set to work is very striking: she simply wrote to the bishop, modestly desiring him to demise the premises to her, till he or his successors should pay to Sir Christopher (the sum he ha, expended), as well as whatever he might afterwards expend on the property. The bishop's answer was straightforward, and befitting the dignity of his position. He said [n.378.1] He was, however, obliged to submit to a conveyance of the property to the quoteueen, who was to re-convey it to Hatton, but on the condition that the whole should be redeemable on the payment of the sum laid out by Hatton. And this was all the bishop would do: no amount of persecution (and he was subjected to so |
379 | much that he more than once besought leave to resign)
could bend him into a final alienation of the property. Sir Christopher, however, had succeeded
to a certain extent. in obtaining his wishes, and during the remainder of his life continued,
when convenient, to reside here. Gray's picture of Hatton in his manorhouse at Stoke Pogis
would, no doubt, be equally applicable to many a scene in Ely House before the royal favour
began to change.
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But Elizabeth, among a few other unamiable qualities, possessed more than a touch of avarice; and the Lord Chancellor being injudicious enough to put her love for him in the scale, and a debt of some in the other, was at once cured of any conceit that her numerous favours might have generated. There is a touch of homely pathos in the passage in, which Fuller alludes to the close of the Chancellor's fortunes and life, which makes forget, the apparently inherent weakness of character then exhibited. The quaint but excellent biographer of the says,-- His death took place in Ely House in . | |
The quoteueen had had much trouble in inducing Cox to consent to the arrangement we have mentioned, and his successor in the see, Dr. Martin Heton, seemed: equally disinclined to fulfil it when it was made; so in a fit of fury the Virgin quoteueen, sat down and penned of the most characteristic of epistles. It was short, but it is difficult to see how more could have been expressed in the longest epistle. | |
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The exact nature of the request here referred to, or of the answer, does not seem to be recorded; but we find, during the term of the good Bishop Andrews, who was translated from Ely to Winchester, some attempt was made to pay off the mortgage; and finally Bishop Wren, the uncle of the illustrious architect, tendered the money and obtained a sentence in the Court of Requests against the | |
380 | then possessor of the property, Lady Elizabeth
Hatton, the widow of the Chancellor's nephew, who had inherited his estates and title. But this
was in the time of the Long Parliament, before which Wren was impeached; and this arrangement
(for Lady Hatton agreed to deliver up the property on payment of the sums laid out), coming to
its knowledge, was stopped, and a resolution passed that Wren was imprisoned for nearly years, during which time almost the whole of the palatial buildings, with the exception of those described in the early part of this paper as standing in the lest century, were pulled down, and the famous garden built into the present . In the same period certain parts of the edifice had been used by the parliament both as a prison and a hospital; so that when Bishop Wren, at the Restoration, was freed from prison and returned to his home here, we may imagine the desolate appearance of everything. He had begun his residence at Ely Place with the hope of restoring entire to the see the half-alienated Hatton property; he ended it with the conviction that it was not only for ever lost, but that the remainder of the property was so injured as to be really unfit any longer for its purposes. He commenced a lawsuit, which, after dragging its slow length along through the remainder of his life and the term of the next bishops, was only settled in that of the bishop, Patrick, by the latter consenting to accept a fee farm rent of the value of a-year. |
We have incidentally referred to Lady Elizabeth Hatton, but that lady must not be dismissed so summarily. Ely Place, or rather the portion of it which she occupied, and which was called Hatton House, possesses some memorable recollections in connexion with her history. At the death of her husband, Sir William Newport, who on the death of his uncle took the name of Hatton, she was young, very beautiful, of eccentric manner, and a most vixenish temper. She was rich withal, and wooers were numerous. Among them came remarkable men, already rivals in their profession, and now to be rivals in a tenderer pursuit: these were Coke and Bacon. And some noticeable scenes must have no doubt taken place in Hatton House during the progress of this remarkable courtship. How Lady Hatton's distinguished lovers hated each other we know, before this new fuel was added to the flame. Both were powerfully supported. Coke had been already appointed Attorney-General by the quoteueen, in spite of the most powerful efforts of the ill-fated Earl of Essex to obtain the appointment for Bacon, so that he was already on the high road to fortune; on the other hand, Bacon's ever-faithful friend-alas! that it should have to be remembered how ungratefully he was rewarded!--Essex, pleaded personally his cause with the beautiful widow and with her mother. To the latter he says in of his letters, and again in another, Essex, in these last words, had hit the right mark; it was the most probably, that at last decided Lady Hatton to accept Coke, and, like many other clever people, lived no doubt to repent of a choice formed on | |
381 | such considerations, when she found she
had rejected a Chancellor. And what a marriage it was! After many years of continued quarrel
and recrimination, a circumstance occurred which made them at once bitter enemies. In
Coke, by his unbending judicial integrity, lost the favour of James, and with it
the Chief Justiceship which he then held: his mode of obtaining a restoration of the , and an equivalent for the , stands in
strange contrast. This was the marriage of his daughter to Sir John Villiers, afterwards
Viscount Purbeck, brother to the haughty favourite, then supreme at Court. It is to Lady
Hatton's credit that she determinedly refused, as long as she could with any prospect of
utility, to consent to this bargain and sale of her child, then only in her year, and who had a great aversion to the match. At the mother and daughter ran away, and secreted themselves at Oatlands, where Coke,
having discovered their retreat, came armed with a warrant, and broke open door after door till
he found the fugitives. The Privy Council were now inundated with appeals and counter-appeals,
and disturbed with brawls when the parties were before them. Mr. Chamberlain, writing to
Carleton (), says, We have also a glimpse of the domestic history of Hatton House at this period, in of her appeals to the Council, where she speaks of her husband entering upon all her goods, breaking into Hatton House, seizing her coach and coach-horses, nay, her apparel, which he detained; thrusting her servants out of the doors without wages or any consideration, &c. However, she at last consented to the match, which was the principal cause of these unseemly proceedings, although she continued to live at Hatton House, separated from her husband; and, this unpleasant business settled, she returned, with as great a zest as ever, to the amusements she chiefly delighted in. Some years before she had played a conspicuous figure in the performance of Ben Jonson's when of the choicest Court beauties had been selected as actors for the solace of royalty; and now again, in , we find her at the same vocation, in the representation of the at Burley-on-the-Hill-James again being the chief spectator. In this piece the gipsy is made thus to address her:--
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As a specimen of the vixenish temper of this lady, we may observe that Lady Hatton, for a considerable period, had Gondomar,[n.382.1] the Spanish ambassador, for her next-door neighbour-he occupying, we presume, the palatial portion of the building. Howel, in a letter to Sir James Crofts, , says,
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We need not pursue her career any farther, as we have already noticed that she was still flourishing at the period of the sitting of the Long Parliament, when Hatton House was decided to be her own. Her daughter's marriage turned out as might have been expected: Viscount Purbeck went abroad only years after, and she led a life of profligacy that had once narrowly brought her to the chapel of the Savoy to do penance in a white sheet. | |
The condition of the episcopal portion of Ely Place, after the final loss of that originally granted to Hatton, became more and more deplorable. In the Harleian MSS.[n.382.2] is the record of a statement which appears to have been made by of the bishops about the period to which we allude. It declares that now, instead of the which originally belonged to them, and the bishops are Under these circumstances any attempts at reparation seem to have been thought useless, and the buildings gradually fell into decay. In , during the time of Dr. Edmund Keene, Bishop of Ely, an act of parliament was obtained, enabling the see to transfer the property to the crown for , which, with due for dilapidations from the family of the preceding bishop, was to be expended in providing a new town residence. And thus was founded the present episcopal mansion in . An annuity of was also settled by the crown on the Bishops of Ely as a part of the arrangement. The property was resold by the crown, when the hall, cloisters, &c. were pulled down, and the present Ely Place built. The chapel alone was reserved, the lease of which, after passing through various hands, was purchased in the present century, and presented to the National Society, by Mr. Joshua Watson, its treasurer, for the use of the children of its central school in | |
383 | . This arrangement being given up, the chapel was for some time closed, but of late years it has again been re-opened, and is now regularly used. In spite of patching and modernisings, St. Etheldreda's Chapel retains much of its original aspect. On looking at the exterior (as shown in the engraving on our page), if we shut our eyes to the lower portion, where a part of the window has been cut away and an entrance made where evidently none was ever intended to exist, we perceive the true stamp of the days when men built the cathedrals; works which no modern art has rivalled, and--which yet seemed so easy to them, that the names of the architects have failed to be preserved. And in the interior the effect of the windows, alike in general appearance, yet differing in every respect in detail, is magnificent, although the storied panes which we may be sure once filled them are gone. The bold arch of the ceiling, plain and whitewashed though now be its surface, retains so much of the old effect, that,,though we miss the fine oak carvings, we do not forget them. The noble row of windows on each side are in a somewhat similar condition; all their exquisite tracery has disappeared, but their number, height, and size tell us what they must have been in the palmy days of Ely Place; and, if we are still at a loss, there is fortunately ample evidence remaining in the ornaments which surround the upper portions of the windows in the interior, and divide them from each other. We scarcely remember anything more exquisite in architecture than the fairylike workmanship of the delicate pinnacle-like ornaments which rise between and overtop these windows. Of the original entrances into the chapel only remains, which is quite unused, and is situated at the south-west corner of the edifice. Stepping through the doorway into a small court that encloses it, we perceive that it has been a very beautiful, deeply-receding, pointed arch, but now so greatly decayed that even the character of its ornaments is but partially discoverable. Here too is a piece of the wall of of the original buildings of the palace--a stupendous piece of brickwork and masonry; and, on looking up, of the octagonal buttresses, with its conical top, which ornamented the angles of the building, is seen. Descending a flight of steps, we find a low window looking into the crypt, the place which was so desecrated, according to the bishop's complaint. It is now filled with casks; and we can but just catch a glimpse of the enormous chestnut posts and girders with which the floor of the chapel is supported. |
The chapel, like all the other parts of Ely Place, has its memories, though none of those recorded are of a very extraordinary character.--Evelyn has notices worthy of extraction on the subject. The runs thus:-- The other notice refers to a more personal matter, and | |
384 | is interesting for that very reason, as
connected with an estimable man:-- Lastly,. we may notice an amusing circumstance that occurred at the time of the defeat of the young Pretender by the Duke of Cumberland, in , and which Cowper thought worthy of notice in his
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Footnotes: [n.372.1] Vol. 1. p. 354. [n.377.1] Monasticon vol. i. p. 467. [n.378.1] Maitland, vol. ii. p. 978. [n.382.1] Prynne, in his famous work, notices Gondomar's residence at Ely House; and his witnessing, with thousands of other persons, the performance of Christ's Passion in the hall, probably the last of the dramatic mysteries exhibited in England. [n.382.2] No. 3789 |
