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THE OLD GATEWAY TO LINCOLN’S INN, CHANCERY LANE
remnants of the old city wall.
advowson to St. Pauls, subject
to his own incumbency and that
of his son Hugh. It is probable
that most parish priests in the
twelfth
men, though of course Aelmund
century were married
may have been a widower who
took orders after the death of his
The dean and chapter of
St. Paul’s have still the presenta¬
tion to St. Giles’s given them by
Aelmund 700 years ago. Queen
Matilda, the wife of Henry I,
patronised the new church by
founding in it a guild dedicated
to St. Mary and St. Giles.
Every one visits St. Giles’s
church who visits anything of
the kind in London, for there is
the tomb of the immortal poet
John Milton, and in the church¬
yard is one of the most perfect
‘“ Crowder’s Well” must have