The dimensions of this church are, length seventy-five feet, breadth fifty-six, altitude of the middle roof, thirtyfour feet; of the cupola and lantern, fifty-eight feet; and of the tower (in which are three bells) to the top of the rail and banister, about seventy feet. MONUMENTS. In the old church, John Dunstable, master of astronomy and music, died 1453. Sir Richard Lee, lord mayor, 1460. The modern monuments of note are the following: To the memory of Nathaniel Hodges, M. D. a writer on the Plague. Robert Marriott, S. T. P. many years rector, who died 1689, aged eighty-one. The late Dr. Thomas Wilson, rector of this church, and son of the venerable bishop of Sodor and Man, was addicted in the decline of life, to countenance party opinions; and to shew his respect for Mrs. Macauley, who had written an intemperate History of the House of Stuart, he caused a whole length statue of her to be erected in her life time in this church. This adulatory idol, after having been noticed and censured, was removed by Mr. Townley, his successor. Among the rectors of eminence, are to be mentioned: HENRY CHICHELEY, brother of Sir ROBERT CHICHELEY, who was born at Higham Ferrars, in Northamptonshire; educated at Winchester, and appointed fellow of New College, Oxford, by its founder, William of Wyckham, bishop of Winchester. Having applied himself to the study of the Civil and Canon Law, he took the degree of LL.D. and was preferred to this rectory March 30, 1396. noble arched windows. The appearance has a very striking effect at entering, every part at once attracting the eye, except the bases of the columns, which are injudiciously eclipsed by the carving on the top of the pews. This, however, was not the design of the architect. * See his character among the mayors, p. 24. Next year Robert Medeford, bishop of Salisbury, took him into his family, and preferred him to the archdeaconry of that diocese. In 1405 he was appointed chancellor of Salisbury; and Henry IV. observing his wonderful capacity, employed him in various negociations; and in an extraordinary embassy to Pope Gregory XII. Dr. Chicheley acquitted himself with such honour, that Pope, in 1407, nominated him bishop of St. David's, and consecrated him with his own hands. By the same power he was appointed archbishop of Canterbury in 1414, and sat in the archiepiscopal throne twenty-nine years. He died April 12, 1443, and was buried in his own cathedral, where his monument and statue are still to be seen. The inscription on the monument declares his munificence in founding a college and hospital at Higham Ferrars, two colleges in Oxford, one called Bernard's College, suppressed by Henry VIII. and re-founded by Sir Thomas White, under the name of St. John's College; the other was All Soul's College. His benefactions to the univerfity of Oxford, the cathedral of Canterbury, to the parish church of Croydon, and to Rochester bridge, testify that he was certainly a prelate of munificence; his firmness in his duty is exemplified in the account of St. Dunstan in the East. JOHN KITE, archbishop of THEBES, and bishop of CarLISLE, 1520, a Londoner; he was ambassador from king Henry VIII. to the king of Spain, who constituted him archbishop. This prelate died in 1537, and was buried in the church of St. Dunstan, Stepney. HENRY PENDLETON, D.D. This man is noticed by Fox, for the protestation he made to Lawrence Sanders, the martyr. In the reign of Edward VI. Pendleton was the Vicar of Bray, of that time. Sanders, on account of his diffidence, had doubted whether he had strength to endure persecution, was answered by Pendleton, "That he would see every drop of his fat, and the last morsel of his flesh consumed to ushes, ere he would swerve from the faith as then established." The rector of Walbrook, however, again changed changed with the times, and saved his grease and flesh; whilst the mild, fearful Sanders, suffered at the stake in Smithfield. AARON WILSON, D. D. archdeacon of Exeter. THOMAS HOWELL, D. D. bishop of Bristol, and brother of James Howell, the historiographer. This prelate was born at Caermarthen, and admitted into Jesus College, Oxon. in 1604, at the age of sixteen; and having passed the various degrees of arts, he took orders, and was an eminent preacher. He was afterwards appointed chaplain to Charles I. rector of West Horsley, and of this church; and having proceeded D. D. was nominated a canon of Windsor, in 1636, and rector of Fulham, in 1642. The grand rebellion drove him from the livings of West Horsley, and St. Stephens, upon which the king caused him to be concrated bishop of Bristol, at Oxford; which dignity he enjoyed only two years, when he died, and was buried in his own cathedral, where a plain stone was placed over his grave, on which was cut "EXPERGISCAR;" "He shall arise." Bishop Howell, remarkable for his meekness, was an excellent divine. THOMAS WILSON, D. D. prebendary of Westminster. Mr. TowNLEY, high master of Merchant Taylors' school, MANSION HOUSE. Mention has already been made in the historical portion of this work, concerning the laying of the first stone of this grand prætorium; it is therefore unnecessary to say more here than may be to introductory to its general description. When the construction of a building for this purpose was voted, several situations presented themselves as appropriate for a residence of the chief magistrate of the city of London, and the following were proposed; the end of Paternoster Row; Cheapside; Moorfields; and Stocks Market; the latter was chosen on account of being in the centre of business, at a small distance from the Royal Exchange, and *See Vol. I. p, 382, in |