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1794 Sir John Crosby's Monument, in the Church of St Helen, Bishopsgate Street
1794 Sir John Crosby's Monument, in the Church of St Helen, Bishopsgate Street
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1794 Sir John Crosby's Monument, in the Church of St Helen, Bishopsgate Street - original print.
monument, with sculptures of two men lying on top, their hands clasped
in prayer; illustration to Smith's 'Antiquities of London'. 1794
Engraving
- Inscription type: inscription
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Inscription content: Lettered
below image with title, followed by "See Strypes Stow, p. 431 &
435. Maitlands London p. 800. Pennants London 3 Edit p. 473 & 476
& Goughs Camden p. 51 Vol 2". A Latin and English inscription above
image, the second being a quote from Weevers Funerall Monuments, p. 421;
"This Crosby was Sheriffe of London the yeare 1470. He was the Builder
of Crosby house. He gave five hundred Markes towards the reforming of
this Church, which was bestowed (saith Stow) with the better. As
appeareth by his Armes both in the Stone worke, roofe of timber, and
glasing. it is a fable said of him, to be named Crosby, of being found
by a Crosse".
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