John Milton -- Bow Churchyard, City of London, UK
N 51° 30.790 W 000° 05.610
30U E 701670 N 5710899
Two plaques about the birth and baptism of famed English port John Milton at St Mary Le Bow Churchyard in the Cheapside area of London
Waymark Code: WMT2G6
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/14/2016
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There are two plaques here, all stacked one on top of the other.
The top plaque reads as follows:
"Three poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn;
The first in loftiness of thought surpassed,
The next in majesty; in both the last:
The force of nature could no farther go,
To make a third, she joined the other two. (poem by John Dryden, referring to Virgil, Dante, and Milton)
John Milton was born in Bread-Street on Friday the 9th day of December 1608 and was baptised in the parish-church of All-Hallows Bread-Street on Tuesday the 20th day of December 1608."
Underneath, is a second plaque with more history of the All Hallows Church:
"This tablet was placed on the church of All-Hallows, Bread Street early in the nineteenth century, as a memorial of the event therein recorded and was removed in the year 1876 when that church was pulled down and the parish united for ecclesiastical purposes with the parish of St. Mary-le-Bow."
Type of Historic Marker: plaque
Age/Event Date: 12/20/1608
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