Engre drag from a Drawing by FWStochdale for the Walks through London Fishmongers Hall Bublished by W Zarke New Bond Street Feb'1817 ing is the chapel, and the library, well furnished. Three hundred boys receive a classical education, one third of them gratis, and the rest for a very small stipend. It is esteemed an excellent seminary, and sends several scholars annually to St. John's, Oxford, in which there are forty-six fellowships, belonging to it. Opposite to this lane, on the Thames side, is Cold Harbour, so called at first from its bleak situation. Here a magnificent mansion was standing in the reign of Edward the Second, which, passing through several hands, was occupied by Tonstal, Bishop of Durham, as a compensation for Durham Place, in the Strand; being deprived of his see, the premises were bestowed on the Earl of Shrewsbury, by Edward the Sixth. The church of All Hallows, Thames-Street, stands near the end of Cold Harbour Lane, was built in 1683, and contains a beautiful specimen of wrought work, in a fine screen made at Hamburgh, a present from the merchants trading to the Hans Towns, who were the original occupants of the still, or steel yard, on this spot, which is now the great repository of most of the iron imported for the use of the metropolis. Dowgate, a little further on, was anciently one of the Roman gates, and a ferry for crossing the Thames it also gave a name to the ward in which it stands. Plumbers'-Hall, is on the east side of Dowgate-Hill, in Checquer-Yard, so called from the checquers usually attached to public-houses, and places of entertain ment.. Skinners' and Tallow Chandlers-Halls, on the west side of Dowgate-Hill, are both handsome structures. The interior buildings of the latter, which include a small court, have an arcade of the Tuscan order, and a fountain in the centre. i In Turnwheel-Lane, winding from Cannon-Street, stood a vast house, or palace, called the Erber. Edward the Third granted it to the Scroops, and it after wards fell to the Nevills. Richard, the great earl of Warwick, possessed it, and lodged here his father, the Earl of Salisbury, with five hundred men, in the famous congress of barons, in the year 1458, in which Henry the Sixth may be said to have been virtually deposed. It often changed masters. Richard the Third repaired it, in whose time it was called the King's Palace. It was rebuilt by Sir Thomas Pullison, Mayor, in 1584; and afterwards dignified by being the residence of Sir Francis Drake. The church of St. Swithin, London-Stone, is situated at the south-west corner of Swithin's-Lane in CannonStreet. The present edifice was built by Sir Christopher Wren. Before this church, on the north side of Cannon-Street, is London-Stone, the origin and the use of which are equally lost in conjecture. This stone has been, and still continues to be, preserved with great care. It is now cased with another stone, cut hollow; so that the ancient one may be open to inspection, without being exposed to injury, and is supposed to have been a Roman milliary, and probably the standard whence all the roads in this country commenced. Salter's-Hall, at the back of this church, stands on the former premises of the Earls of Oxford, and near the residence of the infamous Empson and Dudley, who were joint panders to the insatiate avarice of Henry the Seventh. The present hall is a plain brick building, and contains several pictures, and a curious bill of fare, framed and glazed, in the court room, for fifty people of the company of Salters, in the year 1506; some of the most singular items in this bill are, thirty-six chickens charged four and fivepence, and one swan and four geese, seven shillings. The whole expence of the bill of fare was 17. 13s. 2 d. Westward from St. Swithin's church, on the same side of the way, is Walbrook, a good street, so named from an ancient brook, or rivulet. This stream, now |