Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...(thirteenth century) Gothic architecture flourished. The scarce Saxon and Anglo-Norman relics already referred to give us a notion, ex pede Herculem, of the first church. Thus was the Norman structure of Bishop Giffard and the Norman knights quickly superseded. I may note in passing a ceremony which took place in this earliest church, by which the second Earl Warren, of Southwark, gave the church of Kirkesfield to this church of St. Mary, in Southwark, and confirmed the grant by placing a certain small knife on the altar of the church, in the first year when canons regular were admitted. The Warrens, who were the earliest Norman lords of Southwark, were liberal enough to the church--to this as to others. Words of one charter, said to have been taken out of the book of the monastery of St. Mary Overy, run thus: "I, William of Warren, and the Countess Isabel my wife, with our son, for the honour and love of God, &c., and for the souls of King William the first and second, &c., and for the souls of my father William and my mother Gundred,8 &c., have granted for ever to the church of Mary of Southwark and its canons the church of Churgesfield, Reigate, with the church of Begesurde and the church of Haleghe." Other gifts from this family are enumerated. Earl Reginald was buried at St. Mary Overy's, and was a benefactor. An effigy of a Norman knight is in the church. Strangely enough, it was removed and set upright to make way for the quack doctor Lockyer. The effigy of the old knight and benefactor was REIiUII.DINGS AND REPAIRS. 167 Carlos, MS. History, p. m. 3 Daughter or stepdaughter of the Conqueror. Manning and Bray, vol. iii. p. 564, say Ilamelin, not William; and they name the churches differently, but the facts are...
