WALK IV.

From Cornhill to the Poultry. Return to the Bank, Bartholomew-Lane, Lothbury, Coleman-Street, the London Institution, Moorfields, London-Wall, BroadStreet Buildings, and Austin Friars, back to Cornhill.

THE Poultry, properly so called, is the street extending from the Mansion House to the end of Cheapside; formerly, when this was occupied by poulterers' stalls, there was a place called Scalding-Alley, where fowls were scalded, previous to their being offered for sale; this was on the site of St. Mildred's-Court.

Happily the dreary prison, called 'the PoultryCompter, has been taken down, and the prisoners removed to a more healthful situation in WhitecrossStreet.

The unprecedented multiplication and enlargement of prisons during the recent increase of commerce and opulence, offer a striking contrast with the paucity of those in former times.

A single gaol in Alfred's golden reign
Could half the nation's criminals contain;
Fair Justice then without constraint ador'd,
Held high the steady scale, but sheath'd the sword;
No spies were paid, no special juries known:-
Blest age! but, oh! how diff'rent from our own!

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St. Mildred's Church is in the street called the Poultry, and was rebuilt after the great fire in 1676. The present edifice is of stone, with a flat quadrangular roof, supported by columns and pilasters of the Ionic order: the floor is paved with Purbeck stone, and the chancel with a mixture of the same stone and black

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