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Show L 3* 3 PP/IMUM HUJUS ECCLESIE LAPIDLM POSUIT, MARTII 199, A N N O DOM. 1721. ANNOQUE REGNI SUI OCTAVO, In Englifh thus, SACRED TO G O D. HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY KING GEORGE, BY HIS PROXY, THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN CHRIST, RICHARD LORD BISHOP OF SALISBURY, HIS MAJESTY'S CHIEF ALMONER, ASSISTED (AT HIS MAJESTY'S COMMAND) BY SIR THOMAS HEWET, KNIGHT, O F HIS MAJESTY'S ROYAL BUILDINGS PRINCIPAL SURVEYOR, THE FIRST STONF OF THIS CHURCH LAID, THIS 19th O F MARCH, A N N O DOMINI, 1721, AND THE EIGHTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN. nthly, The new Church in the Strand, built great Expence, and, in the Opinion of good Judges, one! of the prertieit Churches in Chriftendom. izthly, T h e new Church in Weftminfter, exceeding™ cnrich'd with fine Work, having two magnificent Portico's, and four Towers, very beautiful. izthly, T h e ftately new Church at Greenwich, a find one at Deltford, with a great JNumber of others in and about London^ which may vye with rnoft of the Kin^ abroad. izthly, It were endlefs to recount and defcribethfi many curious Roman Buildings in Great Britain alone, creciej |