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nisters, who is supposed to have been poisoned by Dudley, Earl of Leicester, on that account, after eating a sallad.

St. Catherine's Cree on the other side is a Gothic building about 90 feet in length, and in breadth 51, and was last repaired and beautified in 1805.-The superstitious consecration of this church by bishop, (afterwards archbishop) Laud, on January 16, 1630-31, so excited the rage of the discontented sectaries at that period, that it was one of the means which brought the imprudent, though well-meaning prelate to the block. The church is handsome in the inside, and has a fine organ. Among the monuments is that of Sir Nicholas Throgmorton; Hans Holbein was also buried here.

Billiter-Lane, Pennant tells us, was, in the reign of Henry the Eighth, inhabited by a set of such impudent beggars, that it was found necessary to stop up the thoroughfare. Here is now the Private Trade Warehouse of the East India Company, for housing goods brought from the Indies by individuals, till they are sold at the India-House.

St. Mary Axe was so called from its situation near the Axe Inn. Since Queen Elizabeth's time, it has been united to the parish of St. Andrew.

The street called St. Mary Axe is now much the resort of Jew-Crimps, &c. whose principal depredations are committed upon the sailors when attending the India-House.

Leadenhall Market. The ancient fabric of Leadenhall had one side of it standing in the street a few years since it was a manor-house in the possession of many noble families, till completed as a granary by Sir Simon Eyre, in the reign of Henry the Sixth. In Stow's time, Leadenhall became a market; but it is now of more consideration than ever; as here are properly three or four markets for leather, poultry, beef, herbs, &c. That part now called the Green-Yard was a part

of the garden when the Nevilles resided here; and in Ram Alley were the remains of the ancient collegiate chapel, founded by Sir Simon Eyre in 1419, which had the following motto over the door-" Dextra Domini exaltavit me."-A part of Leadenhall Market was rebuilt in 1730, and has an opening into Lime-Street. In 1814, considerable alterations were made in the leather-market, and the whole is now rebuilding.

Under the house of Messrs. Tipper and Fry, No. 71, the remains of the beautiful little chapel of St. Michael are still to be seen, as discovered in 1789, built by Prior Norman, in 1189: the arches are very elegant, supported by ribs which converge and meet on the capi. tals of the pillars, now nearly buried in the earth, which, since its foundation, has been raised twenty-six feet. This house is built on the site of that occupied by the celebrated antiquary, Stow, and where, to the disgrace of his age, he died comparatively poor at eighty!The avenues branching from the south side of this street are Black Raven Court, Hartshorn Court, Hand and Pen Court, Sugar Loaf Court, Billiter-Lane, LimeStreet, and Gracechurch-Street: on the north side, are Smith's Buildings, Cree Church-Lane, Broker's Gardens, St. Mary Axe, Shaft's Court, and Bishopsgate-Street..

Turning from the right round the eastern angle of Leadenhall-Street into Fenchurch-Street, the eye is struck by an immense pile of building, the repository for drugs, belonging to the East India Company. On this spot formerly stood the residence of the prior of Havering Church, to which was nearly attached the town residence of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and his son, who lost their lives in the wars between the houses of York and Lancaster. The ground was afterwards converted into bowling alleys, and was also occupied by a number of small houses and gardens before the Fire of London.

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Fenchurch-Street is a good street, with one end near Mark-Lane, and the other terminating in GracechurchStreet; formerly a dirty brook ran through the ground on which this street stands. The East India warehouses here are very extensive. Northumberland Alley just by marks the site on which the Percys once dwelt. Further on, in Magpie Alley, stands the Church of St. Catherine Coleman; formerly a haw or garden, called Coleman Haw. The Church, though it escaped the Fire of London, was obliged to be taken down and rebuilt in 1734: it is a plain neat building, but has no monuments of consequence. One side of this church is distinguished by an ale-house, and the other by a synagogue.

St. Bennet, Gracechurch, stands at the corner of Fenchurch-Street and Gracechurch-Street. The original ancient edifice was consumed in 1666, and rebuilt in 1685 four or five arched windows, and as many circular ones, enlighten the nave: balustrades adorn the body, and the square tower terminates with a cupola at the summit of which there is another short tower formed of quadrangular projectments, and over them a conical spire, with a ball and vane. The altar-piece and the font are curiously ornamented.

Returning to the eastward, nearly opposite the India warehouses, we find in Lime-Street the parish church of St. Dionis' Back Church, so called on account of its situation: it it a strong stone and brick building. Ingram Court derives its name from Sir Thomas Ingram, a celebrated merchant, whose house was here.

Ironmongers' Hall.-Proceeding along FenchurchStreet, on the north side, we find this stately modern edifice, raised, in 1748, upon the site of three or four halls, that had preceded it. The front is of Portland stone, and the architecture is elegant; the interior buildings are chiefly of brick. The basement story is in rustic, and has in the centre a large arched door-way,

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