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Article ST. SAVIOUR'S AND ITS MONUMENTS. ← Page 9 of 9
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St. Saviour's And Its Monuments.
What a change is presented from the clays of Elizabeth , when , within a very feiv yards of this holy pile , a bear-garden was situated , as we learn from Stow . In his Survey , he says : — " Herein were kept beares , bulls , and other beasts to be bayted , as also mastives in several kenels , nourished to bayt them . These beares and other beasts are there kept in lotts of
p ground , scaffolded about for the beholders to stand safe . " These savage amusements are extinct in England , and more refined pastimes haA'e taken their place . The spot Avhere this garden stood is now covered with warehouses ancl places for merchandise , and not a trace of anything rural can be met Avith in the locality . Little indeed did the historian Tacitus
, when speaking of London as a colony of no great distinction , yet a place of commerce where numbers of merchants were wont to assemble ; little indeed could he have suspected the great extent to which it would have spread , nor as little have estimated its enormous growth of population , with the accompanying intelligence , wealth , and enterprise which have been
increasing from century to century , and whose ramifications appear almost to know no limit . Little indeed did the monks , wise in then- generation , Avhen so much was given to the maintenance and support of their Order , belieA'e or imagine that a pure faith Avould one day root and extend itself through the length and breadth of the landand that the bells of St . Saviour's
, church would summon to prayer , men whose religion Avas fettered by no superstitious restrictions , ivhose loyalty was proverbial , and whose monarch held undisputed SAvay over realms where it may be truly said the sun never sets .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
St. Saviour's And Its Monuments.
What a change is presented from the clays of Elizabeth , when , within a very feiv yards of this holy pile , a bear-garden was situated , as we learn from Stow . In his Survey , he says : — " Herein were kept beares , bulls , and other beasts to be bayted , as also mastives in several kenels , nourished to bayt them . These beares and other beasts are there kept in lotts of
p ground , scaffolded about for the beholders to stand safe . " These savage amusements are extinct in England , and more refined pastimes haA'e taken their place . The spot Avhere this garden stood is now covered with warehouses ancl places for merchandise , and not a trace of anything rural can be met Avith in the locality . Little indeed did the historian Tacitus
, when speaking of London as a colony of no great distinction , yet a place of commerce where numbers of merchants were wont to assemble ; little indeed could he have suspected the great extent to which it would have spread , nor as little have estimated its enormous growth of population , with the accompanying intelligence , wealth , and enterprise which have been
increasing from century to century , and whose ramifications appear almost to know no limit . Little indeed did the monks , wise in then- generation , Avhen so much was given to the maintenance and support of their Order , belieA'e or imagine that a pure faith Avould one day root and extend itself through the length and breadth of the landand that the bells of St . Saviour's
, church would summon to prayer , men whose religion Avas fettered by no superstitious restrictions , ivhose loyalty was proverbial , and whose monarch held undisputed SAvay over realms where it may be truly said the sun never sets .