Drawn & Engraved by T.Higham for the Walks through London.

The Chapels of the Charter House.

Published by W. Clarke New Bond Street Apr11817

is a large room, and the galleries are elaborately enriched, and the whole painted of a stone colour: some stained glass remains in the windows, and there is a portrait of the founder at the upper end. The old Court Room is a venerable apartment, fitted up by the Duke of Norfolk, during his residence here, in the reign of James the First. This, with the Chapel, the Governor's room, &c. are well worth seeing, on account of the paintings and other embelishments, and especially Mr. Sutton's monument, which cost between three and four hundred pounds, a large sum in those days.

Pardon Church stood between Wilderness-Row and Sutton-Street: the site is now occupied by a chapel belonging to a Welsh congregation.

Charter-House Square was anciently the churchyard of the monastery: the north-east corner contains Rutland Court, having been the residence of the Rutland family; but afterwards used as a theatre by Sir William D'Avenant, during the civil wars. Upon the whole, little if any thing remains by which we can trace the original conventual structure: perhaps pieces of the old walls may have been incorporated into the present buildings; and Mr. Malcolm suspects that some parts near the kitchen are original: the basement of the west end of the school is evidently so. Many of the windows have been modernized, and are of Henry's, Edward's, and Elizabeth's time. Part of an ancient tower remains as the basement of the chapel turret: on the outside it has undergone some convenient alterations; but on the north-west is still supported by a strong original buttress: within, it is arched in the Gothic style, about fifteen feet from the pavement; the intersections are carved to represent an angel and some unknown instruments as appendages to the hair skirts worn for penance. One of the oldest parts of the building is called The Evidence-House, and is entered by a well staircase from a door on the north

Iside of the house without: here the archives of the hospital are kept; the ceiling is beautifully ribbed; and the centre stone represents a large rose, enclosing the initials J. H. S. Jesus Hominum Salvator. Access to this depository cannot be had in the absence of the Master, the Registrar, or Receiver, nor can any one of these enter it without the others. The entrance to several cells on the south side of the present play. ground are also the remains of the conventual building.

The kitchen contains two enormous chimney-places, and the doors and windows have all pointed arches. Facing the chapel is a passage to the cloister of brick, with projecting unglazed mullioned windows and flat tops a few small pointed doors are on the back wall, but they are now closed. From a terrace on this cloister the patched ancient walls and buttresses of the Court Room may be seen.

Charter-House Square has been the residence of several eminent persons, being considered rather as a retired place, on account of the trees, &c. At present it contains The London Infirmary for the Eye, at No. 40, on the south side, founded in 1809.

Charter House Lane leads to Smithfield Bars, the northern boundary of the city liberty, whence returning to the southward, we pass Cock-Lane, the place where a female Ventriloquist was wisely taken for a ghost by a number of credulous persons, in the year 1762, some of them of no small respectability in life, and who became the subjects of Churchhill's satirical pen, in his poem called The Ghost.

A little further on, in Giltspur-Street, we meet with Ludgate, making part of a handsome stone edifice, formerly a prison for debtors who are free of the city, clergymen, proctors, and attornies. This is now appropriated to the same purpose as Giltspur-Street, which fronts the street, and is a massy and not inelegant structure for the purpose intended. At the corner of

the Old Bailey is Newgate, which, by a recent regulation, in conjunction with the aforenamed prisons, is no longer a place for debtors as well as felons, and is probably better for the few that may be committed to it, compared with the alarming numbers that used to be immured there before the large prison in WhitecrossStreet was completed for the reception of debtors only.

Nearly opposite Giltspur-Street Compter, at the corner of Cock-Lane, is a public house, known by the sign of the Fortune of War, (i. e. a wooden leg or a golden chain). This spot was once called Pye Corner, from the sign of that bird. The proverb of the Fire commencing at Pudding-Lane, and ending at Pye Corner, might occasion the inscription, with the figure of the boy, still to be seen at the door of this public house, usually called The Glutton, and he is accordingly represented as enormously fat and bloated, but quite naked.

A broad yard on the south divides Newgate from the Sessions-House, a very handsome stone and brick building, where the Sessions are held eight times in the year, for the trial of criminal offenders in London and Middlesex. A part of Sydney-House is still the most remarkable on the west side of the street of the Old Bailey, was lately a broker's shop, and is at present under a state of repair. This was the dwelling of the notorious Jonathan Wild.

An elegant structure, intended as a promenade for witnesses during the trials, was erected here some years since, on the site of Surgeons' Hall, being a colonade of two rows of Doric fluted pillars, supporting a ceiling with three iron gates and some windows: but as it was deemed too cold in winter, or too much confined in summer, the witnesses in general prefer waiting in the Old Bailey Yard, or in the adjacent public houses. Over this place are the offices of the Clerk of the Peace, &c. Turning out of the Old Bailey eastward we arrive at Ludgate-Hill, once the site of the city entrance

of that name, which was taken down about the year 1760.

Close to where this gate stood is situated the parish church of St. Martin, Ludgate, upon the site of another built about the year 1437, and rebuilt in 1684. In 1806, digging a foundation at the back of the London Coffee House, adjoining this church, by the remains of London Wall, a stone of the form of a sexagon was discovered, with a Latin inscription, to the memory of Claudia, the wife of one of the Roman generals in this country.

Ludgate-Hill is a broad street of stately houses. The Bell Savage Inn, according to Stow, received its name from one Arabella Savage. The painter of the sign gave it a diverting origin, deriving it from a Bell and a Wild Man. The Spectator gives the derivation from La Belle Sauvage, a beautiful woman described in an old French romance, as being found in a state of nature. Stow records that Arabella Savage gave this inn to the cutlers' company, whose arms are still sculptured upon the houses.

Black Friars Bridge was built by Robert Mylne, Esq. and consists of nine arches, which being eliptical, the apertures for navigation are large, whilst the bridge itself is low the length from wharf to wharf is nine hundred and ninety-five English feet, and the width of the central arch one hundred. The upper surface of the bridge is a portion of a very large circle, so that the whole forms one arch, and appears a gently swelling ground all the way. Over each pier is a recess or balcony supported below, by two Ionic pillars and two pilasters, which stand upon a semicircular projection of the pier above high-water mark; these pillars give an agreeable lightness to the appearance of the bridge on either side. At each extremity the bridge spreads open, the footways rounding off to the right and left, a quadrant of a circle, forming an access both agreeable and convenient. There are two flights of stone