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Places of interest in TW8
Syon House, the London residence of the Duke of Northumberland.
Following Henry VIII's decision in 1534 to throw off the papal yoke, many of the inmates of Syon expressed themselves favourable to Henry' s supremacy over the English Church, and even converted recalcitrant monks from other monasteries to do likewise. [19] Many however refused to acknowledge the King's new title. Due to the actions of one Syon monk named Richard Reynolds, an eminent doctor in divinity later canonised, the King made Syon an object of special vengeance. Reynolds had facilitated a meeting at Syon between Sir Thomas More, the King's chief opponent in his assumption of Supreme Governorship, and Elizabeth Barton, the mystic Holy Maid of Kent at which More was fuelled with supposed divine revelations further supporting his opposition. Thomas Cromwell, the King's minister in effecting the Dissolution, had visited Syon in person to obtain expressions of acceptance of supremacy from the inmates, but seems to have met an antagonistic reception from one of the monks at the front-door grate. He left 2 of his agents, Thomas Bedyll and Master Leightone, to obtain the required acceptances from the nuns and monks of the King's new status. Bedyll reported that the bretherne stand stif in thaire obstinacy as you left thaim. Two were sent to the Bishop of London, within whose diocese Syon lay, apparently for a course of conversion, whilst 2 Church of England clerics were brought in to convert another two Syon monks who were particularly obstinate, Whitford and Little. On the following day the King himself sent 4 different Church of England clerics to Syon for the same purpose, again without success. The agent Bedyll then took the recalcitrant Whitford for a walk in the monastery garden to further persuade him both with faire wordes and with foule to convert. He then resorted to what appears a classic use of blackmail, accusing Whitford of having used bawdy wordes to diverse ladys at the tymes of thaire confession, which would bring him to the greate shame of the world. Still he did not convert, having a brasyn forehead which shameth at no thing. Whitford and Little were also reported, whilst hearing confessions through a hole in the wall of persons external to the monastery, to have denounced the King's new title as Supreme Governor, and his divorce and remarriage, for which reason it was proposed to Cromwell that the confessional grille be bricked-up. The nuns were more easily won over however, and were sat down together in the chapter house of Syon in the presence of the Bishop of London and their own male confessor. All who accepted the King's new title ware asked to remain seated, whilst those opposed were asked to leave the chamber. All remained seated, signifying their acceptance, no doubt reluctantly. The nuns thereupon in resignation to their new status sent a special request to Cromwell that he should be a good maister unto thaim and to thaire house, as thaire special trust is in you. It seems they were then confident in the continuation of their monastery. One nun however named Agnes Smythe a sturdy dame and a wylful made a show of some resistance in persuading her sister nuns not to hand over the convent seal, which had been required by Cromwell's agents to seal a declaration of conversion to be signed by the abbess and nuns.[20]
The ground has hosted three international friendlies in recent times, the most recent of these being a game between Nigeria and Ghana.
The low number of passengers using the station meant that the extension of the platform tunnels could not be justified on financial grounds, and the station remained closed when the line was reopened in 1924. The platforms were removed and the lift shaft was converted for use as a ventilation shaft. City Road was the only twin tunnel station of the C&SLR not to be reconstructed. During World War II, the station was converted for use as an air-raid shelter.[1]
She was responsible for starting the careers of some of the most sought-after and controversial artists in the world.[8] Victoria Miro discovered Chris Ofili, whose work The Holy Virgin Mary displayed in 1999 in the Brooklyn Museum of Art angered the mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani,[8] who said, "There?s nothing in the First Amendment that supports horrible and disgusting projects!"[9] Another discovery, in 1992, was German photographer, Andreas Gursky, one of whose photographs, eight years later, made $250,000 at auction; a major retrospective was held in 2001 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.[8] A work by Cecily Brown, another artist represented by Miro, also sold for a surprisingly high price at auction in 2000.[8]
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