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move the House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill, to amend and enforce the Provisions of the Act of the 14th George the Third, c. 49, intituled, "An Act for regulating Mad-houses."

As a preservation against fire, here are four large reservoirs on the top of this building, supplied by an engine, and a pump for each distinct gallery.

Hence to the Obelisk, and to the Kent road, a little beyond the Bricklayer's Arms, concludes this walk. Here we notice The Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, a handsome brick building, very accurately represented in the annexed engraving. Near this spot is

also the Institution for the Cure of Cancers, &c.

Thus having commenced our perambulation of the metropolis at the emporium of commerce, we have closed this part of our undertaking among the mansions of charity.

Environs of London.

WALK I.

From the Surrey side of Westminster-Bridge to StangateStreet and Lambeth, Vauxhall, Vauxhall-Bridge, South Lambeth, Kennington, Stockwell, Walcot-Place, Newington Butts, Walworth, Camberwell, Dulwich, New Cross, Rotherhithe, Sydenham, Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich, Shooter's Hill, Erith, The Crays, Dartford, Eltham, and Greenhithe.

LAMBETH has been, for many ages, the residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury, as it had been long before that of the Bishops of Rochester. The palace was originally built in 1189, by Baldwin, metropolitan in the time of Richard the First; in 1292, it was, in a great measure, if not wholly, re-built by Boniface. That part which is called the Lollard's Tower, was built in the reign of Henry the Fifth, by Henry Chicheley, Archbishop of Canterbury. He was a persecutor of the followers of Wickliff; and the tower derived its name from a room which it contained, appro priated to the imprisonment of the followers of that reformer, who were called Lollards. This is a small room, twelve feet by nine, planked with elm; in which still remain eight rings and staples, to which these unfortunate people were chained. During the short time that Cardinal Pole was Archbishop of Canterbury, he built the fine gate of the palace, with a gallery and several rooms adjoining at the east end. The library

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