A REDUCED FAC-SIMILE COPY OF THE BRASS PLATE,
IN THE CHURCH OF ST. PETER, UPON CORNHILL.

BEEN IT KNOWNE TO ALL MEN THAT IN THE YEARE OF OVR LORD GOD 179. *Lucivs* THE FIRST CHRISTIAN KING OF THIS LAND, THEN CALLED BRITAINE, FOVNDED Y FIRST CHVRCH IN LONDON, THAT IS TO SAY, Y CHVRCH OF S. PETER VPON CORNEHILL: AND HEE FOVNDED THERE AN ARCHBISHOP'S SEE, AND MADE THAT CHVRCH Y METROPOLITANE AND CHEIFE CHVRCH OF THIS KINGDOME, AND SO IT INDVRED Y SPACE OF 400 YEARES AND MORE, VNTO THE COMING OF S. AVSTIN THE APOSTLE OF ENGLAND, THE WHICH WAS SENT INTO THIS LAND BY S. GREGORIE, Y DOCTOR OF Y CHVRCH IN THE TIME OF KING ETHELBERT: AND THEN WAS THE ARCHBISHOP'S SEE & PALL, REMOVED FROM Y FORESAID CHVRCH OF S. PETER VPON CORNEHILL, VNTO DOROBERNIA, THAT NOW IS CALLED CANTERBVRIE, & THERE IT REMAINETH TO THIS DAY, AND MILLET A MONKE WHICH CAME INTO THIS LAND WITH S. AVSTIN, HEE WAS MADE THE FIRST BISHOP OF LONDON, AND HIS SEE WAS MADE IN PAVL'S CHVRCH, AND THIS *Lucivs* KING WAS THE FIRST FOVNDER OF S. PETERS CHVRCH VPON CORNEHILL, & HEE REIGNED KING IN THIS LAND AFTER BRVTE 1245, YEARES. AND IN THE YEARE OF OVR LORD GOD 124. *Lucivs* WAS CROWNED KING: AND THE YEARES OF HIS REIGNE WERE 77 YEARES. AND HEE WAS BVRIED (AFTER SOME CHRONICLES) AT LONDON: AND AFTER SOME CHRONICLES HEE WAS BVRIED AT GLOCESTER, IN THAT PLACE WHERE Y ORDER OF S. FRANCIS STANDETH NOW.

*This Inscription is quoted in many Works, but the publisher has never seen it correctly stated.*

London, Published 1st January 1875, by Robert Wilkinson on 125, Fenchurch Street.

A REDUCED FACSIMILE COPY OF THE BRASS PLATE,
IN THE CHURCH OF ST. PETER, UPON CORNHILL.

BEE IT KNOWNE TO ALL MEN THAT IN THE YEARE OF OVR LORD GOD 179.<u>LVCIUS</u> THE FIRST CHRISTIAN KING OF THIS LAND, THEN CALLED BRITAINE, FOVNDED Y FIRST CHVRCH IN LONDON, THAT IS TO SAY, Y CHVRCH OF S.<sup>T</sup>PETER VPON CORNEHILL: AND HEE FOVNDED THERE AN ARCHBIS HOP'S SEE, AND MADE THAT CHVRCH Y METROPOLITANE AND CHEIFE CHVRCH OF THIS KINGDOME, AND SO IT INDVRED Y SPACE OF 400 YEARES AND MORE, VNTO THE COMING OF S.<sup>T</sup> AVSTIN THE APOSTLE OF ENGLAND, THE WHICH WAS SENT INTO THIS LAND BY S.<sup>T</sup>GREGORIE, Y DOCTOR OF Y CHVRCH IN THE TIME OF KING ETHELBERT: AND THEN WAS THE ARCHBISHOP'S SEE & PALL REMOVED FROM Y FORESAID CHVRCH OF S.<sup>T</sup>PETER VPON CORNEHILL, VNTO DOROBERNIA, THAT NOW IS CALLED CANTERBVRIE, & THERE IT REMAINE TH TO THIS DAY, AND MILLET A MONKE WHICH CAME INTO THIS LAND WITH S.<sup>T</sup>AVSTIN, HEE WAS MADE THE FIRST BISHOP OF LONDON, AND HIS SEE WAS MADE IN PAVL'S CHVRCH, AND THIS <u>LVCIUS</u> KING WAS THE FIRST FOVNDER OF S.<sup>T</sup>PETERS CHVRCH VPON CORNEHILL, & HEE REIGNED KING IN THIS LAND AFTER BRVTE 1245, YEARES. AND IN THE YEARE OF OVR LORD GOD 124.<u>LVCIUS</u> WAS CROWNED KING: AND THE YEARES OF HIS REIGNE WERE 77 YEARES. AND HEE WAS BVRIED (AFTER SOME CHRONICLES) AT LONDON: AND AFTER SOME CHRONICLES HEE WAS BVRIED AT GLOCESTER, IN THAT PLACE, WHERE Y ORDER OF S.<sup>T</sup>FRANCIS STANDETH NOW.

London, Published in January 1775, by Robert Wilkinson, Fincurch Street.

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