terval between the two former buildings, forms a square, two hundred and seventy feet wide, in the middle of which, is a statue of GEORGE the Second, sculptured by Rysbrach, out of a single block of white marble, that weighed eleven tons, and was taken from the French, by admiral Sir George Rooke: this statue was given to the Hospital by Sir Johns Jennings, who was governor from 1720 to 1744; the following inscriptious on the pedestal were drawn up by Mr. Stanyan, author of the Grecian History:

HIC AMES DICER PATER ATQ. PRINCEPS.

And underneath the royal standard:

On the south side:

IMPERIUM PELAGI.

Principi potentissimo GEORGIO IIdo. Britanniarum Regi, cujus auspiciis et patrocinic augustissimum hoc hospitium ad sublevandos militantium in classe emeritorum labores-a regiis ipsius ante cessoribus fundatum auctius indies et splendidins exurgit.

JOHANNES JENNINGS, Eques, ejusdem hospitii præfectus Iconem hanc pro debitâ suâ principem reverentiâ et patriam, charitate posuit, anno Domini MDCCXXXV.

The precincts of the Hospital are entered through iron gates, with rusticated piers, and lodges; on the western entrance are placed two large globes of stone, of an oblique position, agreeably to the latitude of Greenwich. On the terrestrial globe is marked the tract of the voyage round the world, undertaken by admiral Anson, in the Centurion, during the reign of George II.

There are two cemeteries belonging to this foundation p in one of which was buried the reverend Mr. NICHOLAS TINDAL,

TINDAL, appointed chaplain in 1738, and died in June 1774. This gentleman was the translator and continuer of Rapin's History of England: he also wrote "A Guide to Classical Learning," and other works. He was nephew to Matthew Tindal, the Deistical writer, out of whose property he was defrauded by the famous writer, Eustace Budgell *.

This transaction provoked the following lines of Mr. Pope:
Let Budgell charge low Grub Street on my quill,
And write whate'er he please-except my will.

Part of the hospital stands on the site of a Franciscan monastery, founded by Edward IV. Among this conmunity queen Catharine of Arragon, the first wife of Henry VIII. was accustomed to rise at midnight, and join in their devotions; she also appointed John Forrest, one of the monks, to be her confessor. Her partiality for the order, induced a grateful return, and they were advocates in her cause, which so provoked Henry, that he instantly suppressed the whole Franciscan order, throughout England. This convent was dissolved in 1534. Their possessions were restored by Mary I.; but her successor, Elizabeth, completed their dissolution in 1559, and attached their buildings to the palace. In this church was buried lady lady Elizabeth, wife of Thomas lord Dacre of the North, and sister of William, first lord Sandys, in the reign of Henry VIII.

A new building has been recently erected near the western entrance of the Hospital, for the purpose of transacting the concerns of the Chest at Chatham, which are now under the control of the governors of Greenwich Hospital.

In 1560, Mr. Lambard + built an hospital, called Queen Elizabeth's College, said to be the first erected by an English Protestant subject.

* See Noble's Continuation of Granger, III. p. 324. 326.

A college

+ Lambard was a bencher of the society of Lincoln's Inn, a master in chancery, keeper of the rolls and records in the Tower, and belonged

to

A college at the east end of the town, fronting the Thames, (for the maintenance of twenty decayed old housekeepers, twelve out of Greenwich, and eight who are to be alternately chosen from Snottisham and Castle-Rising in Norfolk,) is called the Duke of Norfolk's College, though Ex it was founded, in 1613, by Henry earl of Northampton,lates brother of Thomas, fourth duke of Norfolk, and son of the illustrious warrior and poet, Henry earl of Surrey. To this college belongs a chapel, in which the earl's body is laid, which, as well as his monument, was removed here a few years ago from the chapel of Dover Castle. The pensioners, besides meat, drink, and lodging, are allowed Is. 6d. a week, with a gown once a year, linen once in two years, and hats once in four years.

Having described what is really worthy of notice in Greenwich Hospital and its precincts, we return to the town, which may be deemed one of the most genteel and pleasant in the British dominions: the inhabitants are mostly persons of respectability and fashion; and those, who having served their country in warfare, spend the remainder of their valuable lives in the pleasing reflection, that after the faithful discharge of their respective duties in a faithful and honourable manner, they retire into ease and delight, and contemplate their former dangers only as they were conducive to that grand object-the good of their country!

to the alienation office under queen Elizabeth. To the memory and name of her majesty, he founded and endowed the above college for the poor at Greenwich; but is more generally known for being the author of many learned works; and he deserves particular notice here, because by him was written the first description, or, as he himself terms it, "Perambulation of the County of Kent." He died at Westcombe, August 10, 1601, and was buried in Greenwich, where a handsome mural monument of white marble was erected to his memory, and that of his son Sir Multon Lambard. Upon taking down the old church, this monument was placed in Sevenoaks church, at the charge of the late Thomas Lambard, Esq. the next in descent, with an additional inscription mentioning the reason of its being removed.

In

In the High Street, stands the parish church of

ST. ALPHAGE..

THE antient church having become very ruinous, the roof fell in, on the twenty-eighth of November, 1710. In consequence of this accident the inhabitants petitioned the House of Commons for assistance towards rebuilding it; and it was expressly provided, by the act soon afterwards passed, for erecting fifty new churches in and near London, that one of them should be the parish of Greenwich.

The new church is a handsome stone fabric, completed and consecrated in 1718: the architect was John James. The west end is a square tower, in which are ten good bells, with a cupola above, supported on Corinthian pillars, terminated by a small spire: the interior is constructed in the Grecian order, and pewed with oak. A painting on board, representing a monumental effigies of queen Elizabeth, is hanged against the north wall. On the south wall, is a picture of Charles I. at his devotions; and on the east wall, are portraits of queen Anne, and George I. The interior of the church is without monuments; but on the outside, and in the churchyard, among other monuments, are those of Sir WILLIAM HENRY SANDERSON, bart. of East Combe, the last heir male of his family, who died at the age of fifteen, in 1760; Sir ROBERT ROBINSON, knt. who died in April, 1714, aged eighty-four; Sir JAMES CREED, knt. who died in February, 1762, aged sixtyseven; Sir JOHN LETHIEULLIER, knt. who died in 1708; of whom we have spoken under Lewisham; and lieutenantgeneral WILLIAM SKINNER, who was twenty-one years chief engineer of Great Britain, and died in 1780. In a large cemetery adjoining the church-yard, among many others, is the tomb of Dr. FREDERICK SLANE, fellow of the College of Physicians, and F. R. S. He died in 1727*.

Within

In the old church was a portrait, on glass, of Humphrey, duke of Glocester, engraved as a head-piece in the Catalogue of English MSS. and various monuments and memorials, Among them were several Brasses

Within this church was a chantry, dedicated to the Holy Cross, belonging to a fraternity under that name in Greenwich.

Two burgesses were returned to parliament for this town in the year, 1657, by the inhabitants; but it does not appear, that they afterwards exercised that privilege, though the assizes for Kent were held here in the first, fourth, and fifth year of the reign of queen Elizabeth. There is at present a market for provisions granted to the governors of Brasses in memory of Richard Bower, gentleman of the chapel, and master of the children to Henry the Eighth; Edward the Sixth; queen Mary; and queen Elizabeth, ob, 1561. Another for John Whythe, gent. one of queen Elizabeth's footmen, who died in 1579, and was represented in the dress of the tunes, a gold chain over his right shoulder, and a mace and crown, with the queen's supporters, on his breast: a third" was for Henry Traifford, Esq. clerk of the green cloth under the same sovereign, oh. 1585; and a fourth for Thomas Tallys, who was esteemed the father of the collegiate style of music, and was musician in the chapel, in the reigns of Henry the Eighth, and his three immediate sucHe died in 1581. His Epitaph is inserted in Strype's edition of Stow's Survey, and is as follows:

cessors.

Enterred here doth ly a worthy wyght

Who for long ty me in musick bore the bell,
His name to shew was Thomas Tally's hyght,
In honest vertuous life he did excell.

He served long tyme in Chappall with grete prayse,
Fower Sovereynes reygnes, a thing not often seen,
I mean Kyng Henry and Prynce Edward's dayes,
Quene Mary, and Elizabeth our Quene.
He maryed was, though children. he had none,
And lyved in love full thre and thirty yeres
With loyal spouse, whose name yclypt was Jone,
Who here entombd him company now bears.

As he did lyve, so also did he dy,

In myld and quyet sort, O! happy man!

To God full oft for mercy did he cry,

Wherefore he lyves, let Death do what he can.

Here was also a monument to commemorate the learned Lambard, who was buried in the old church, August 1601; as was his son, Sir Multon Lambard, in 1634: the monument has since been removed to Sevenoaks.