with gardens behind them; and that Field Lane, now a long narrow passage filled with old cloaths' shops and prostitutes, was an opening from the street to the fields between Holborn and Clerkenwell. Saffron Hill stands on a path-way, which led through a long pasture, bounded by the Turnmill Brook, and the wall of Lord Hatton's Garden, from whence arose the name of the street; at the north end of which, is one of the Police Offices, similar to others which have been described in various parts of this work.

In Cross-street stands Hatton House; built by Sir Christopher Hatton, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. He was a great favourite with that imperious Queen, who, though averse to all marriage contracts, affected to be greatly struck by his superior personal accomplishments: Sir Christopher's fine person and fine dancing were quite as attractive to Elizabeth as his intellectual endowments, which were by no means superficial. He was lord keeper, and discharged his duty with great applause; his modesty, however, prompted by his good sense, never allowed him to act, on any occasion of moment, without the assistance of two able lawyers.

The site of his house was that of the orchard and garden of Ely House; and here he died in 1591. By his interest with the queen, he extorted from the Bishop, Richard Cox, the ground on which his house was built. The good bishop for a long time resisted the insolent sacrilege; but the female Head of the Church soon made him surrender, by the following letter; one of the many glorious privileges of the ever-glorious Reformation:

"Proud Prelate!

"You know what you was before I made you what you are now; if you do not immediately comply with my request, by G-d, I will unfrock you.

PART III.

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"ELIZABETH."

What

What bishop could resist a demand from so pious and so powerful a queen? On the 20th of March, 1576, the "proud prelate," granted to Sir Christopher, the fine dancer," the gatehouse of the palace, except two rooms, used as prisons for those who were arrested, or delivered in execution to the bishop's bailiff; and the lower rooms, used for the porter's lodge, the first court-yard, within the gate-house, to the long gallery, dividing it from the second; the stables there, the long gallery, with the rooms above and below it, and some others; fourteen acres of land; and the keeping the gardens and orchards for twenty. one years, paying, at Midsummer-Day, a red rose for the gatehouse and garden, and for the ground ten loads of hay, and 101. per annum; the bishop reserving to himself and his successors free access through the gate-house, walking in the garden, and to gather twenty bushels of roses yearly." Sir Christopher undertook to repair and make the gate-house a convenient dwelling.

The sequel of this nefarious transaction was calamitous to Hatton. He had incurred a large debt to the Queen, whose love of money exceeded even her love of fine legs and fine dancing; when she demanded the payment, the chancellor was unable to satisfy the demand ; Elizabeth, in her usual strains of impatience and insolence, it would seem, reproached her favourite creditor. This so affected him, that he shortly after died of a broken heart; and the avaricious Queen, as in other cases, most bitterly la mented the loss of so able a judge and councillor. Hatton House, since that time, has undergone various alterations, and has been devoted to sundry contradictory purposes. It was once a Dancing Academy, and afterwards a Printing Office. The back part of it has been formed into a Chapel, at first for a congregation of the New Jerusalem Church, or Swedenborgians; but it is at present occupied by a society of Calvinistic Methodists,

St. Andrew's Charity School, is a good building in Hatton Garden; and is, I understand, now a very well regulated Cha

rity.

• Pennant, 159,

rity. It was founded in 1696, in Brookes's Market. The present building was originally Hatton Chapel, which being disused, was leased of the Bishop of Ely for the School-House. The Rev. Mr. Cotton, and Mr. Lemaitre, well-known in what was once ridiculously called the " pop-gun plot," have exerted themselves to reform many abuses which had crept into the management of this School. The Rev. Mr. Barton, and Mr. March, of Brook Street, some years ago saved the establishment from total ruin.

In the Committee Room there is a good picture of St. Andrew's Court, by Ashby.

The

Greville-street takes its name from Sir Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke; from whence also arose the name of Brooke-street. name of Sir Fulke will ever be remembered as the patron of learning and learned men; and as the friend of Sir Philip Sidney. He died by the hand of Ralph Haywood, a gentleman who had passed the most of his days in his lordship's service. For some cause, which was never known, he had left him out of his will, and very imprudently let him know it. In September, 1628, Haywood entered his lordship's bed-chamber, and expostulated with great warmth on the usage he met with, his lordship answering with asperity, received from him a mortal wound with a sword. The assassin retired into another room, in which he instantly destroyed himself with the same instrument. His lordship died a few days afterwards.*

In Fulwood's Rents is a Court of Request for the recovery of small debts.

In the neighbourhood of Holborn, on both sides, are several inferior Inns of Court. Next to Brooke Street is Furnival's Inn, at one time the town residence of the Lords Furnival, which family became extinct, in the male line, in the sixth year of Richard II.

Thaives Inn, is on the opposite side of the street. It took is name from John Tavye, in Edward III's time. It consists of

several

Edmondson's Account of the Greville Family, 86, apud Pen.