sized figure in armour kneeling beneath a canopy, inscribed to Peter Capponius, and dated 1582. -- There is also part of a sculptured figure in armour affixed to the wall at the east end of the church, representing Sir John Radcliffe, who died in the year of our Lord 1568. In Stow's "Survey" this figure is described as recumbent on an altar-tomb, and having a female figure representing the knight's wife kneeling by the side of it; but there is no distinct record of the time when the tomb was removed. A portion of a female figure affixed to the wall on the south side of the altar having under it these words; Here lieth buried, Dame Anne, the wife of Sir John Radclif, knight, who died the tenth daie of December, A. D. 1585.' may have formed the other part of the monument, although there is nothing in the appearance of the statue to strengthen the supposition. A brass plate, at the east end of the north aile, commemorates Mr. Thomas Morley, Clerk of the Queen's Household, at Deptford, who died in 1516; and in the south gallery there is a somewhat elaborate monument displaying various figures, but without date or inscription. It is apparently, however, of the seventeenth century. Under the organ gallery, at the west end of the church, is a sculptured marble figure of Sir Andrew Riccard beneath a gothic canopy. At the foot of the statue, which formerly stood in one of the ailes, is the following inscription. "Sacred be the statue here raised by gratitude and respect to eternize the memory of Sir Andrew Riccard, knight, citizen and opulent merchant of London; whose active piety, inflexible integrity, and extensive abilities, alike distinguished and exalted him in the opinion of the wise and good. Adverse to his wish he was frequently chosen chairman of the Honourable East India Company, and filled with equal credit for eighteen successive years the same eminent station in the Turkey Company. Among many instances of his love to God, and liberal spirit towards man, one, as it demands peculiar praise, deserves to be distinctly recorded. He nobly left the perpetual advowson of this parish in trust to five of its senior inhabitants. He died 6th. September, in the year of our Lord, 1672; of his age, 68. Manet post funera virtus.” The body of the knight lies at the east end of the nave, in front of the chancel, and the spot is marked by a stone inlaid with a large brass plate. There are vaults beneath the church, and we were informed by the present intelligent clerk of the parish, Mr. Samuel Smith, that the foundation walls are of rubble work, consisting of pieces of unhewn stone and chalk cemented together with mortar. The principal entrance to the building is by a doorway at the west end of the north side of the church i. e. in Hart Street, which was at one time disfigured by a modern porch, as may be seen in the old print before mentioned; and there is a second doorway on the south side of the church, which still retains an appendage of that description. The accompanying engraving of the exterior of the church represents it as seen looking towards the northwest, with a curious modern gateway of entrance to the churchyard, adorned with skulls, and other emblems of mortality. The upper part of the tower, seen at the southwest corner of the church is of brick, recently executed: and the whole is covered with Roman cement in a style. which ill accords with the body of the church. The Rector of this parish is the Rev. H. B. Owen, and the Rev. J. Letts is the curate. The churchyard contains the relics of a vast number of those who were killed by the dreadful plague which depopulated the city in 1665, in which year nearly a hundred thousand persons died in London of this disorder alone. Defoe, the celebrated author of "Robinson Crusoe," has drawn a heart-rending picture of this melancholy period, and has made the circumstances which attended it so well known as to render comment almost unnecessary. Grass grew in the streets; most of the shops were shut; and the dreaded red cross and pious supplication for mercy from the Most High, marked upon the greater number of the doors, shewed how numerous were the houses in which the fatal pestilence had established its dominion. Love and Friendship fell early victims to the disorder; and the state of society was entirely rent and broken up. Even mothers forsook their children when they saw the ominous "plague-spots," and friends passed each other, (if forced by circumstances to leave their homes) with averted eyes and closed nostrils,-fearing contagion. No carts nor coaches moved in the streets; even the tolling of the church bells, which at the commencement of the disorder had been constantly heard for the dead, was now prohibited; so that nothing occurred to break the ominous silence that every where prevailed, but the funeral cart as it nightly perambulated the city, and the melancholy voice of its attendant, crying, bring out your dead!" In the Register books of St. Olave's, which are perfect from the year 1563 to the present time, and in an excellent state of preservation, appears a long list of burials with the letter P. affixed to each of the names distinguishing them as victims of this sad visitation. The first entry is dated July 24, 1665. and is of "Mary, daughter of William Ramsay, one of the Drapers' Almsmen ;" and we may perhaps mention that there is a tradition in the parish to the effect, that the disorder first made its appearance on this occasion in the Drapers' Alms-houses, which were founded by Sir John Milborn in the year 1535, and are situated in Cooper's Row. 1 In a court in Hart-Street, four houses from Mark-Lane, there was formerly a curious building, termed in the old leases, Whittington's Palace, and believed, by a writer who described it in the Gentleman's Magazine, to have been the residence of the renowned lord mayor of that name; 1 although, judging from the engraving which he annexed, the date of it was much later than that assigned to it. The court remains no longer, and the site of the "palace" is now occupied by a modern house; the original building having been pulled down a few years ago, by the corporation of the city of London, in order to effect certain improvements in the neighbourhood. It is perhaps worthy of mention, that when the workmen were removing the basement walls of the old structure, a small brick chamber was discovered, (having an opening into it only from the top,) which contained many human bones, and even hair, mixed with lime; and so disposed, as to induce a belief amongst those who saw the spot, that it had been the scene of some foul play; a belief which was strengthened by the fact that the blade of a dagger, of which the point had been broken, was found amongst them. The dagger is about 12 inches long, fluted on both sides, and is now in the possession of Mr. Bucknall, the owner of the premises. 1 Vol. LXVI. p. 545. ST. ANTHOLIN'S, WATLING STREET. THIS church appears to be the only one in the city of London, which was dedicated to St. Anthony, the patriarch of monks, as he has been termed. In tracing the early history of the Christian religion, no person can fail to regard with surprise the lives of those men, -and they were numerous—who, impressed with a feeling of their own weakness, or want of power to resist temptation, fled from the haunts of their fellow-creatures, and, by a rigorous and mortifying course of discipline, endeavoured to render themselves worthy in the eyes of God. At the present time, when the glorious promises which Christianity holds out to its disciples, are more generally known; when instead of being persecuted for professing its doctrines, all are earnestly besought to embrace them, such a course would probably effect no good end, but might subject him who should adopt it, to the imputation of cowardice and desertion of the reciprocal duties of life. Formerly the case was different. Notwithstanding that |