A book About London Its Memorable Places Its Men And Women And Its Historica
A book About London Its Memorable Places Its Men And Women And Its Historica
W H Davenport William Henry Davenport Adams
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131 The Savoy was afterwards used as a naval and military hospital, and subsequently as a garrison. All that now remains of it is the chapel, which contains some monuments of interest as, for instance, that of Sir Robert Douglas and his wife ; a tablet to the African explorer, Richard Lander ; and one to Mistress Anne Killigrew, daughter of a former Master of the Savoy, whom Dryden has celebrated in one of his finest odes. Gawain Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, translator of Virgil, and a poet of n...o mean powers, is buried here. He died of the plague in 1521, while residing in the Savoy. BEFORE the Great Fire, St. Paul's Churchyard was in- habited chiefly by stationers and booksellers, who, as was then the custom, distinguished their places of business by more or less inappropriate signs. " At the sign of the White Greyhound, " says Cunningham, " the first editions of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and Rape of Lucrece were published by John Harrison ; at the Flower de Luce and the Crown appeared the first edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor; at the Green Dragon, the first edition of The Merchant of Venice ; at the Fox, the first edition of Richard II.
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