OLD ST. PAUL'S
CATHEDRAL

By

WILLIAM BENHAM, D.D., F.S.A.

Rector of St. Edmund the King, Lombard Street,
and Honorary Canon of Canterbury

LONDON

SEELEY AND CO. LIMITED, GREAT RUSSELL STREET

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1902

CONTENTS
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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Plate 1. - Frontispiece OLD ST. PAUL'S AND THE THREE CRANES WHARF.
Compiled from old Drawings and Prints.

Plate 2. - P. 6 A BISHOP PLACING RELICS IN AN ALTAR.
From a Pontifical of the Fourteenth Century. British Museum, Lans. 451.

Plate 3. - P. 6 A PAPAL LEGATE.
From a MS. of the Decretals of Boniface VIII. British Museum, 23923.

Plate 8. - P.10 A FUNERAL PROCESSION.
From a MS. of the Hours of the Virgin. British Museum, 27697.

Plate 22. - P. 54 A PONTIFICAL MASS.
From a Missal of the Fifteenth Century. British Museum, 19897.

Plate 29. - P. 62 BISHOP AND CANONS IN THE CHURCH OF ST. GREGORY-BY-ST. PAUL'S.
From a MS. of Lydgate's Life of St. Edmund. British Museum, Harl. 2278.

Wenceslaus Hollar—to whose engravings of Old St. Paul's we are indebted for our exceptional knowledge of the aspect of a building that has perished—was born in Prague in 1607, and was brought to England by the Earl of Arundel, who had seen some of his work at Cologne. He soon obtained profitable employment, producing engravings both of figures and views in rapid succession, and about 1639 he was appointed drawing-master to the Prince of