course it seems, so late as 1574, ran downwards to Dowgate Hill, where there was then a conduit, between which and the river there was such a fall of water on the 4th of September in that year, that the channel rose so high that a lad of 18 years of age, endeavouring to leap over it was carried away by the flood and drowned. A house lately denominated Wallbrook house, from its lofty

Then to the Chepe I began me drawne
Where much people I saw for to stand;
One offred me velvet, sylke and lawne,

And another he taketh me by the haund.
"Here is Paris thread the finest in the laund"
I never was used to such thynges indeed,
And wanting money I might not spede.

Then I went forth by London Stone
Throughout all Canwyke Street;
Drapers much cloth offerd me anone

Then comes me one, cryd "hot sheepes feet"

One cryed mackrel, ryster greene, other gan greete

One bad me by a hood to cover my hede,

But for want of money I might not spede.

Then I hyed me into Eastchepe

One cryes ribbes of beef and many a pye;
Pewter pots they clattered on a heape,

There was harpe, pype, and minstrelsy
"Yea by Cock, Nay by Cock," some gan cry
Some sang of Jenky and Julyan for their mede
But for lack of money, I might not spede.

Then into Cornhill anon I yode;

Where was much stolen gere amonge,

I saw where hung mine own hoode
That I had lost among the thronge;

To buy my own hood

I knew it well as I de

though it wrong,

But for lack of money a sight. ' spede.

The

lofty arches of excellent workmanship in the cellar, seems to have been the remains of that belonging to the Abbot of Torkington, afterwards the residence of the family of Pollexfen, one of whom in the reign of Charles II. was retained by the City to plead their cause against the iniquitous Act of Quo Warranto. Lower down the street, was the residence of the notorious Empson and Dudley.

The ancient church of ST. STEPHEN WALLBROOK is first mentioned by Dugdale, who says that Eudo, steward of the household to Henry I. gave it to his newly founded monastery of St. John at Colchester; accordingly, the Abbot and convent presented to the living till the year 1442. Sir Robert Chichely, grocer, who had been Lord Mayor in 1421, gave to the parish a plot of ground,

The Taverner took me by the sleeve

"Sir, sayth he will you our wyne assay"
I answered "that cannot much me greve,
A penny can do no more than it may"
I drank a pynt and for it did pay,

Yet sore a hungered from thence I yede,
And wanting my money I could not spede.

Then hyed I me to Belinesgate,

And one cryd Ho! go we hence,

I prayd a bargemen for God's sake,

That he would spare me my expence :

"Thou steppst not here cryd be under too pence

I lyst not yet bestow my alms dede :"
Thus lacking money I could not spede.

Then I conveyed me into Kent,

For of the law I wold meddle no more,
Because no man to me took entent,

dyght me to do as I did before;~

Now Jesus that in Bethlem was bore

Save London, and send trew lawyers there mede,
For whoso wants money with them shall not spede.

Harl, MSS. No. CCCLXVII.

ground, containing two hundred and eighty feet and a half in length, and sixty feet in breadth, for the purpose of erecting a new church, and forming a church-yard. The first stone of this church, Sir Robert laid in 1429, but the building was not completed till 1439. The patronage purchased by Sir Robert Whittingham, passed from him to the Dake of Bedford; from him to Richard Lee, Esq. and lastly, into the Grocers' Company, with whom it continues. Levelled by the fire, in 1666, the present fabric was the work of Sir Christopher Wren, and the parish of St. Bennet Sherehog, was then united to it by act of Parliament.

The walls and tower are of stone; the roof within, over the middle aisle, arched. In the centre is a spacious cupola and a lantern; the roof over the rest of the Church is flat, covered with lead, and supported by columns and pilasters of the Corinthian order; there are three aisles and a cross aisle covered with stone. The ascent from the street is by fifteen steps. The roof and cupola are adorned with an entablature and arches, ornamented with shields, palm-branches, and roses of fret work, and pannels of crochet work. The walls are wainscotted ten feet high, having the Grocers' arms within a handsome compartment of palm-branches, &c. At the north end of the cross aisle, is a doorcase beautifully decorated with various kinds of fruit and leaves; at the north-east angle is another, and at the west end a third, very magnificent, adorned with two columns, entablature and pediment of the Corinthian order, enriched with cherubim festoons, and the arms of Chicheley of wainscot. The altar-piece is adorned with two columus, their architrave, frieze, and cornice of the same order: ou the cornice are the arms of England, and underneath are figures of Moses and Aaron, with a radiance. Above the Creed and Lord's prayer, are two shields with compartments and festoons, fruit, &c. gilt with gold; and on the northernly shield are the arms, or a chevron, between three cinquefoils, gules, for Chicheley, The communion table, which is a semicircle, finely veneered and carved, is placed on a foot pace of black and white

marble,