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24 ORIGIN OF THE CITY hgure of St. Lucius with more interest than I should have bestowed upon personages who, hierarchically, are, I daresay, his superiors.” It will be remembered that 65 Cornhill, which was at that time the office of the Cornhill Magazine, in the first number of which this paper of Thackeray’s was written to appear, is exactly opposite the church of St. Peter. Not very long ago the ecclesiastical authorities celebrated in this church the 1700th anniversary of the foundation. The exact place of Lucius in the story is disputed. According to some the church was founded in 179 A.D., after the death of Lucius, who, as Thackeray tells us, was stoned at Chur “on account of theological differences.” Theanus, or Theonus, was the first archbishop of London, aided by Cyran, who had been chief butler to Lucius. Theanus was succeeded by a long line of archbishops before the coming of the heathen Saxons. It seems hardly worth while to refute such a tale as this. According to Harry, King Lles sent for Christian teachers to Pope Elutherius or Eleutherus. I am not going to stray into ecclesiastical history, and it will be sufficient here to have given the legend, and to have pointed out that Lles or Lucius is among the mythical predecessors of King Cole. In dealing with these stories we may remember a few facts. There may have been a British ofpidum on the hill above the Wallbrook before Aulus Plautius, in the autumn of the year 43 A.D., founded a Roman fort somewhere in the neighbourhood. The whole ~~, 4 — a ale 4 vet új NOVEMBER MOURNING!
