A MIDNIGHT BELL
The cliurcn of St. Botolph, in Aldgafej London', rebuilt -by| the elder Dance in 1744, contains several interesting monuments saved from the earlier church. Amongst them is.a memorial to Richard Dow, who, in 1612, left a sum of money to the parish of St. Sepulchre, Holborn, to pay for ringing a bell at midnight outside the condemned cell at Newgate in order to call the unfortunate prisoners there to prayer and repentance. The bell, in shape like an inverted flower-pot, is still preserved in the vestry of St. Sepulcher’s Church nearby. In St. Botolph’s is kept the severed head of the Duke of Suffolk, father of Lady Jane Grey, executed on Tower Hill in 1554.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 10 February 1933, Page 5
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118A MIDNIGHT BELL Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 10 February 1933, Page 5
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