Identifier: londonitsenviron00adam (find matches)
Title: London and its environs : a practical guide to the metropolis and its vicinity, illustrated by maps, plans and views
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
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Publisher: Edinburgh : A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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s of Somerset, andthe Earl of Stafford, were tried and condemned. A grander 80 VrESTillNSTER HALL. occasion was that wten Charles I. faced Hs judges. At a laterperiod, the seven bishops, Dr. Sacheverel, the Earl of Derwent-water, and the rebel lords of Scotland, Kilmarnock, Balmerino,and Lovat, were tried here. The rafters have rung with thewonderful eloquence of Burke, Fox, and Sheridan, before a crowdof noble and beautiful auditors, when the deeds of WarrenHastings in India were laid before the world. The last trialthat took place was Lord Melvilles, when he was impeached bythe Commons in 1806. George IV. gave his coronation banquethere to 334 guests, when Dymock, the Kings champion, clad inarmour, rode into the haU, and throwing down his gauntlet, chal-lenged the world to gainsay the Kings title, a ceremony whicha Dymock had gone through at the coronation of Richard II.,claiming the privilege as successor of the Marmions in the owner-ship of the manor of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire.
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^i?^: CHAPTER THE SEVENTH. St. Pauls Cathedral. Westminster Abbey. ChurchesAND Chapels. The cathedral cliiircli of the Bishops of London is not onlyby far the finest building in the Italian style in London, bntthe finest in Britain. The public are admitted free by the northdoor from eleven to three daily, and during summer from theconclusion of afternoon service until dusk. No person is allowedto remain in the nave after service has commenced. Diii^ne ser--vice is celebrated daily at eight a.m. in the morning chapel; at ac^uarter before ten a.m., and at a quarter before three p.m., in thechoir. On Sundays, during the winter half year, there is anevening service at seven, under the dome, where 3000 personscan be accommodated. To see certain parts of the building, thefollowing charges are made :— To the Whispering, Stone, and Golden Galleries, 6d. ; to theLibrary, Great Bell, Geometrical Staircase, and Model Room,6d.; to the Crypt, where are the tombs of Nelson and Welling-ton, 6d.; t

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