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walking in the filent folituJeof the garden which he cul¬ 
tivated, and to which he looked down as his fupport, 
could not help admiring the beautiful works of nature, 
luxuriating under his eyes in the conformation of vege¬ 
tables, and applied them to the decoration of an art which 
had becolne the objeft of his ferious attention and inte- 
relling ftudy; whilft the /lately trees, lheltering the gar¬ 
den from the northern blaft and fcorching fouth, had al¬ 
ready furnidied him with the plan of the whole conftruc- 
tion. Indeed, if we conlider attentively the fiiape, con¬ 
formation, attitude, and habits, of feveral fubjefls of the 
vegetable kingdom ; the apium or par/ley, the different 
forts of beet, the curling peafe, the enwrapping leaves of 
the poppy, the indented lettuces, and others; we cannot 
deny that the nearer the ornaments of Gothic architecture 
approach the fantaftical drift of the growth of tliefe plants, 
the fharpnefs of their edges, and the meandrous eccentri¬ 
cities of their combinations, the nearer the art approaches 
the purity of its original perfection. 
At the eaft end of the church-yard, was the clochier, or 
bell-tower, containing four very great bells, called “ Jefus 
Xiells,” as they belonged to Jefus-chapel, fituated under 
the church, as mentioned above. On the top of the wooden 
fpire erefted above the belfrey was the image of St. Paul, 
nil Handing, till fir Miles Partridge, knight, temp. Hen. 
VIII. having won them from the king at one call of the 
dice, forone hundred pounds, pulled them down ; which fir 
Miles, afterwards (temp. Ed.VI.) fuffered death onTower- 
hill for matters relating to the duke of Somerfet. 
St. Paul’s was encompaffed with a wall, about the year 
1109, which extended from the north-eaft corner of Ave- 
Maria-lane, eaftward along Paternofter-row, to the north 
end of the Old Change, in Cheapfide; whence it ran 
iouthward to Carter-lane, and, palling on the north-fide 
of it to Creed-lane, turned up to Ludgate-llreet. To this 
wall there were fix gates, the principal of which was fitu¬ 
ated near the end of Creed-lane in Ludgate-ftreet. The 
fiecond was at St. Paul’s-alley, in Paternofler-row; the 
third at Canon-alley; the fourth, called the Little Gate, 
was fituated at the entrance into Cheapfide; the fifth, 
called St. Auftin’s, led to Watling-ltreet; and the fixth 
fronted the fouth gate of the church, near Paul’s Chain. 
Godrick, abbot of Peterborough, had fet the example 
of erecting erodes in church-yards, to put paffengers in 
mind of praying for the fouls of all the faithful interred 
there ; and this cultom, if not anterior to his time, 87-0, 
has been conllantly followed in all Roman-catholic coun¬ 
tries to this day.—In St. Paul’s church-yard, a pulpit- 
croi's was erefted long before the reign of Richard II. 
by whole order it was repaired. From thence fermons 
were preached to the people; and under it the citizens of 
London ufea to converfe, and hold the afiembly called the 
folkmote. The laft fermion preached at this place was be¬ 
fore J:iities I. who came in great Hate on horfeback from 
Whitehall, on Midlent Sunday, 1620; he was received at 
Temple Bar by the lord-mayor and aldermen, who pre- 
fen'ted him with a piirfe of gold. At St. Paul’s he was re¬ 
ceived by the ,clergy,in*their richeft veftments. Divine fer- 
vice was .performed, attended with organs, cornets, and 
fackbuts ; after which his majefty went to a prepared place, 
and Mat'd a fermon at t’neCrofs, preached by John King, 
hilltop of London. The objeft of the Lrmon was the re¬ 
paration of the cathedral. The king and the principal 
perlons retired from the Crofs to the bilhop’s palace, to 
confult on the matter; and, after a-magnificent banquet, 
the court returned to Whitehall. 
From all parts of the church-yard and adjacent places 
the beautiful dial was feen. It was adorned with the figure 
“ of an angel pointing to the hour, both night and day.” 
From this exprefiion we are led to.fuppofe that the whole 
of the circumference upon which the hours were painted 
was in circular motion, in lieu of the hand as we have it 
,now ; for it is not eafy to underftand how the angel could 
be put in motion, and go round from one hour to the 
«ther. fort of contrivance is now common, and 
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particularly in French time-pieces, where the hour-plate 
is in motion, and brings the hour to the index of a figure 
pointing at it. 
Dugdale tells us, that there was “a chapel (landing on 
the north fide of the church-yard, in that very place vvhere 
a ftationer’s houfe and (hop, viz. the fign of the Rofe,” 
was fituated in his time; and under it a vault wherein 
the bones taken out of ancient graves were decently piled 
together.—Thetnofi ancient grant upon record, in favour 
of this chapel of the dead, was in the beginning of the 
reign of Edward I. by the lady Dionyfia de Montehenfie, 
“ who in her pure widowhood gave one quarter of good 
wheat to be paid yearly out of the manour of Aneftle in 
Surry, for the fupport thereof, as alfo of the priefts there ce¬ 
lebrating divine fcrvice.” If there be no miftake in the ma- 
nufeript out of which this has been extracted by Dug¬ 
dale, finely the priefts of that sera mull have lived much 
more fcantily than they have done finee, or the price of 
wheat mult have been much higher in comparifon with 
all other neceffaries of life; but, if in reality the'pittance 
granted was fmall, the example was great, and was foon 
followed by leveral rich inhabitants of the metropolis. 
In 1276, Henry de Edelmeton, a citizen of London, be¬ 
queathed fix marks yearly to a chaplain, and twenty (hil¬ 
lings annually for the maintenance of a lamp ; the feremis 
Jlamma of which ufed to increase rather than difpel the 
gloom of the funeral chapel. This, and all it contained, 
could not efcape the rapacity of the duke of Somerfet, 
who dilapidated fo many ancient buildings to get mate¬ 
rials for his palace, (ince called Somerfet Houjc, in the 
Strand.—.The bones, being deprived of their peaceful re¬ 
treat in the vault underneath the chapel, were conveyed 
into Finfbury fields. They amounted to more than a 
thoufand cart-loads, and were again depofited in the earth. 
From this great quantity of bones, and the foil thrown 
over them, rofe a hill high and large enough to ferve as a 
bafis to three windmills, which had (Ince been built there, 
and were in conftant motion, over the bones of the dead, 
to l'upply food for the living. The deftruftion of the 
chapel happened in 1549. 
Near the north door of the cathedral was another chapel, 
founded by Walter Sheryngton, clerk, chancellorof the du¬ 
chy of Lancaller under Henry VI. He was one of the canons 
relident at the church ; and, by an inventory of his wealth, 
it appears that he had in ready money at his death no lefs 
than the fum of 3233!. 18s. 4ft. which was kept in ail 
iron chell in the vcltry of the cathedral. He had alfo two 
(landing cups of gold, with covers ; the one weighing 33 
ounqes and one ferlyng, the other nearly the fame, of troy 
weight. He knew, however, how to make a good ufe of 
his money ; for, on the weft quadrature of tiie cloifter fur¬ 
rounding Pardon-church-haugh, he began, and his fuc- 
cefl'ors perf£6led, a very curious library, containing marly 
excellent books, all, of courfe, manul'cripts, and feveral 
upon vellum molt curioully- illuminated ; the catalogue 
of which exifted in 1688, and was feen in the Hattonian 
library by Dugdale. 
The Pardon-ckurck-haugh, or yard, contiguous to the bi- 
/hop’s palace, and eaftward of it, on the north fide of Sr. 
Paul’s, was a cemetery of great antiquity; for there Hood 
a chapel founded by'Gilbert Becket, portreeve of Lon¬ 
don in king Stephen’s time, and father to the famous 
archbifliop of Canterbury of that name, where he lay bu¬ 
ried. This chapel was rebuilt in the reign of Henry V. 
by Thomas Moore, dean of St. Paul’s, who alfo encorn- 
paffc-d it with a cloifter, on the walls of which was painted 
the Dance of Death; a common lubjefl on the walls of 
cloilters, or religious places. This piece reprefented a 
long train of different orders of men, dancing into eter¬ 
nity, each having Death for his partner. A painting of 
the fame kind, in the cloiller of the Holy Innocents at 
Paris, gave birth to a poem, confining of the fpeeches of 
the different perfonages, and the anfwers of Death, which 
was originally written in the German language by Ma- 
chabcr, whence the painting itl'elf acquired the appella- 
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