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Title: The history and antiquities of the parish of Lambeth, and the archiepiscopal palace ..
Year: 1827 (1820s)
Authors: Allen, Thomas, 1803-1833
Subjects: Lambeth Palace (London, England)
Publisher: London, J. Allen
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Duke University Libraries

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t This, Professor Ward, observed was the firstinstance he had mot with it. It is not likely they were usedfor the same purpose before the reformation. d In the churchwardensaccounts of this parish are two entriesrespecting the Hour-glass; the first is in 1579, twenty yearsbefore that at St. Helens, when Is. Ad. was payd toYorke for the frame in which the hower standeth; and thesecond in 1615, when 6s. 8d. was ff payd for a.u iron for theHour-glass. Mr. Fosbroke says * Preaching by the Hour-glass was pwttin end to by the Puritans.* It however appears that theywere made use of in the Puritanical times of Cromwell, whenthe preacher on his first appearance in the pulpit, and namingthe text turned up the glass, and if the sermon did not last tillthe glass was out, it was said by the congregation that he was f Churc.wardem, Accounts. I* .i, p. 2G8. c Binghams Anliq. Christ. Oh. b. iv. c. 4. § 2i.* Archaaologia, vol. i. pp. 16, 22. c Enc. of Autiq.,vol. i. p.2T5v TOR THE HISTORY OF LAMBETH.
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CURIOUS HOUR GLASS STAND, In the Church of St. Albans, Wood-street, London. This Plate is obligingly presented to the Work by H. C. Bowles, Esq. F.S.A. PARISH CHURCH. 67 lazy; and if on the other hand, he continued much longer,they would yawn and stretch till the discourse was finished.Butler, alludes to them as heing used by the Puritans. b I thinkit may be said that their use was not put an end to by them,but on the contrary was greatly increased. It is most probablethat they were discontinued immediately after the Puritans, inthe time of Charles II. when the minds of the people were morerelax. Hogarth in his Sleeping Congregation, has introducedan hour-glass on the left side of the preacher, and Mr. Ire-land observes in his description of this plate, that they are stillplaced on some of the pulpits in the provinces. Lecturerspulpits had an hour-glass on one side and a bottle on the other.eAt Waltham, co„ Leicester, by the pulpit was an hour-glassin an iron frame mounted on three

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