The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-27
THE cHURoH OF ST. Mary lie Row
Its Aasocintions and WHY the Archbishop
OF Canterbury Was Confirmed There.

Its Aaaocintions and why the Archbisho on
or Canterbury WINS Confirmed There.
There came over the cable on Tuesday news
from London to the effect that the "conhrma-
tion of the Right Honorable and Most Rev
erend Frederick Temple as Archbishop of Can
terbury and Primate OF all England =" in the
Church of st. Mary lie Bow, London, was inter-
ruptedb y a protest against the proceedings on
the part Of the Rev. Edward Brownjohn. Tho
cable brought further the comforting news that
after the protest had been rejected the Rev.
Mr.. Brownjohn departed "amid the groans of
the audience"
A good many persons wondered what really
had happened. or rather what was happening,
when Mr.. Brownjohn protested. They knew
that the cathedral church OF the Archbishop of
Canterbury is in Canterbury: and they know,
further. that an Archbishop is enthroned. Some
persons wondered If DR.. Temple had in some
way escaped being confirmed. though they
knew that confirmation by a Bishop follows an
English lad about as surely as measles: that IL
he hasn't been confirmed and had the measles,
there is no hope on earth or in heaven for him.
But the interrupted eremony was described
correctly. though incomplete!y.
The Church of st. Mary 10 Bow. in which the
Archbishop Of Canterbury; 4 peculiar" in
dignitary. without the Jurisdiction OF the autho-
rites of the diocese within which it stands.
lndt Is, L aCCautulS NO use another eCCleSlaSt1-
cal term put 1t in one diocese. while 1t really
and truly belongs to another. So IL was In his
rights oyer ST; Mary lie Bow that the newly
confirmed on Tuesday when Mr.. Brownjohn in.
terrupLed the proceedings temporarily.
The famous Church OF st. Mary lie Bow, called
officially the Church OF ST. Mary de Arcubus,
and colloquially Bow Church; stands in Cheap:
st, Paul's. the cathedral church OF the Bishop
Of rom hop ba,nr the he S srs, i sSu nSms su 81 h in o Arcn6 Mi,h
afnnn arches III was huilt In tha TINA ~
William the Conqueror. and the arches which
gave 1t the name are still standing, down in the
crypt. The present church was built by Wren.
after the Great Fire. and its steeple is described
as being the, most splendid of all his steeple
The beautiful steeple of st. Mnry's contains
what is probably the most famous chime, OF
W VSii bn N TO become eeals h I"rd 'S Msy oa.'e OF
London; Bow Bells 1t was to be born within
sound OF which made n man u trne oocknev;
Bow Bells. the apprentices friends. Dick Whit
London. sat down on the first milestone TO rest,
with his cat in his arms, and as he sat there he
tinEton. Lord Mayor of London; Turn again.
he did and became Lord Mayor four times. and
member OF Parliament, and finally died full OF
Then as to the Cockneys: "Cocaigne. the land
OF good living" was once n we!l-earned name of
London. and only those born within sound OF
Bow Bells could be cockneys with right.
Then to the apprentices OF Cheapside. Bow
BELLS were friends; for when they rang out at o
O O'CLOCK cACn evening the apprentices OF cheap
side were released from their duties. This
bell. !" says old Stow, being usually rung some
what late. as seemed to the young men, prem
tices. md others in Cheap. they made and set
up a rhy me against the clerk as followeth:
Clerke Of the Bow Bell. with the yellow lockes,
For thy late ringing thy head shall have knockes-
Whereunto the clerk replying. wrote:
Children OF Cheape. hold you all stilI;
For you shall have the Bow Bell rung at your will"
After that there was peace in Cheap.
To the children. too. how Bells or. rather.
the Great Bell OF Eow-are well known. In the
game of London Bells the Great Bell of Bow
comes In ike n reluctant witness before a cross
examining lawyer. The game brings In the
names OF many OF the old London churches.
"Oranges and Unions"
Say the bells OF 81. Clements.
You owe mo fve farthings."
Say the bells OF 81, Martins.
Say the bells of old Bailey.
"When | grow rich."
shy the bells of Shoreditch-
when viii that be ~
Say the bells of Stepney.
II do not know
Says the Great Bell OF Bow.
st. Mary le Bow, under its proper name. De
the chief court OF the ecclesiastical Province of
Canterbury. The court used to sit in the church.
but II has moved now to the chivalrously named
knightrlder street. The Judge of the court is
called officially the official principal of the
Arches Court. but is known usually as the Dean
OF the Arches. Then there Is II Court OF Pecu-
liars. which takes Its name from the ~iurisdic-
ton formerly exercised by the Archbishop over
some fifteen churches in the diocese OF London;
this court now exists only In NAME. as an appan-
Punch years ago had n picture OF the Court of
Peculiars. or u Peculiar Court: the subject and
the way It was treated can DO imagined. even by
an American.