Note 8 — PREFACE.
Reading edition
Formerly called Pardon Church-Yard, about which, says Weever, Ancient Funeral Monuments, 4to Edition, 1767, P. 168, “was artificially and richly painted, the Dance of Death commonly called the Dance of Paul’s; the Picture of Death leading all Estates.”
The above Jenken Carpenter was Executor to Sir Richard Whittington, and had a Licence granted him, Anno 1430, 8 Hen. VI. to establish upon the Charnel-House of St. Paul’s a Chaplain, to have eight Marks a Year.
Weever, ubi supra.