Identifier: historicaldescri00smit (find matches)
Title: A Historical description of Westminster Abbey : its monuments and curiosities
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, George Albert, 1870-1951. signer. sgn UPB
Subjects: Westminster Abbey
Publisher: (London) : Printed for the Vergers in the Abbey by Jas. Truscott & Son
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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1,aged sixty-nine years. Above and below are expressed, in Latin,the following words :— God is my port and refuge: God hath shown His wonders in the deep. Opposite, on your left, is the monument to Sir ThomasRichardson.—There is an effigy, in brass, of a Judge in hisrobes, with a collar of SS., representing Sir Thomas Bichardson,Knight, Speaker of the House of Commons in the twenty- first and twenty-second year of James I., Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; and, lastly, by Charles L, made L.C.J, of England. He died in 1634, in his sixty-sixth year. So farthe inscription. This is that Judge Bichardson who first issuedout an order against the ancient custom of wakes, and causedevery minister to read it in his church, which the Bishop of Bathand Wells opposing, complaint was made against the order inthe Council-chamber, where Bichardson was so severely repri-manded, that he came out in a rage, saying—he had been almostchoked with a pair of lawn sleeves.—Huber le Seur, sculptor.
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POETS CORNER, p. 103.

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