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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. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... quaintly sculptured marble monuments that line the outer walls, and the general air of respectable antiquity that pervades the church, all combine to impress him with its likeness to old English church structures. Kings Chapel was the pioneer Episcopal church in Boston. The first building was set up in 1088. The Episcopalians had previously held services, first in the Town House, and then in the Old South, under the protection of Gov. Andros, who gave peremptory orders to have the Old South granted for these services. They met with little favor from the first settlers; and the act of Andros in taking possession of the Old South for their use was pronounced by Greenwood, the first historian of Kings Chapel, to be "one of the most arbitrary acts ever perpetrated in this country while it remained under the English government." The Episcopalians occupied the Old South during the forenoons, and the Congregationalists in the afternoons; and Judge Bewail writes in his diary, of one occasion when the Episcopal service lasted until after two oclock: "It was a sad sight to see how full the street was of people, gazing and moving to and fro, because they had not entrance into the church." The first Kings Chapel was on the site of the present chapel, a part of the territory set aside for the old burying-ground being taken for it by Andros, some writers have maintained, arbitrarily. Shurtleff, for instance, intimates that his only authority was that "made use of by the tyrannical usurper... that might makes right." But Rev. Henry W. Foote, in his " Annals of Kings Chapel," holds that "the question of the rightful tenure of this spot by the church seems to be fairly answered by two facts: first, only...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153357166 |
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| ISBN-10 | 115335716X |
| Weight | 1.92 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.33 In |
| List Price | $42.50 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 600 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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