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He conveyed the saint safely back who directed him to inform the bishop that there was no farther need of consecration. The saint descended on the Surry side, in a stormy night but, prevaling on Edric, a fisher|man, to waft him over, performed the ceremony: and, as a proof, left behind the chrism, and precious droppings of the wax candles, with which the astonished fisherman saw the church illuminated. Peter who descended in person, with a host of heavenly choristers, to save the bishop of Mellitus the trouble of consecration. The church is said to have been founded about the year 610, by Sebert king of the East-Saxons, * on the ruins of the temple of Apollo, flung down, quoth legend, by an earthquake. The aim at excess of magnificence is not a fault peculiar to the builder.ĪT a small distance to the east is that noble specimen of gothic architecture, * the conventual church of St. Notwithstanding it is deservedly censured for its load of ornaments, they are by no means destitute of beauty. It was begun in 1721, and finished in 1728. John the Evangelist, one of the fifty voted by parlement, to give this part of the town the air of the capital of a christian country. It was rebuilt in its present form by the Grovenour family.Ī LITTLE farther was the antient Horse-ferry between Westmin|ster and Lambeth: * suppressed on the building of Westminster-bridge.Ī LITTLE beyond the Horse-ferry stands the church of St. It was inhabited by his successors, and retained its name till the time of the death of that great but irregular genius Charles, earl of Peterborough, in 1735. It probably was built by the first earl of Peterborough. I find, in the plan of London by Hollar, a mansion on this spot, under the name of Peterborough-house. All the rest of his vast property about London devolved on him in right of his mother, Mary, daughter and heiress of Alexander Davies of Ebury in the county of Middlesex. Here, in myīoyish days, I often experienced the hospitality of the late Sir Robert Grovenour, its worthy owner, who enjoyed it, by the pur|chase, by one of his family, from the Mordaunts, earls of Peter|borough. Mill-bank, * the last dwelling in Westminster, is a large house, which took its name from a mill which once occupied its site. In the time of queen Elizabeth, the shore correspondent to Lambeth was a mere marshy tract.
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I NOW return to the extremity of the western part of our capi|tal on the opposite shore.