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told, a friend of Rahere. hát “ : =>... A ad szin ~ a — = ef E éa 4 Ld VA Fal § ee. 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 presentation 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 churchyard is one of the most perfect ‘“ Crowder’s Well” must have
