and white marble inlaid as a large star. From the whispering gallery the ascent is made to the stone gallery, round the exterior dome, above the colonnade, whence in a clear day the view is most extensive and diversified. In the crown of the dome is an opening whence rise the cone lantern and cross nearly a hundred feet higher. Around the exterior but of the cone is a railed gallery called the Golden Gallery, from which is a vast prospect, full of immense and rich variety. To this the ascent is by 524 steps, and to the whispering gallery 280 steps from the floor of the cathedral. Above this gallery is the Bull's Eye Chamber, whence Mr. Thomas Horner, the artist, passed the summer of 1821, in taking views for a panorama of London.

In the south-west tower is the Clock, and the great bell on which it strikes the hour, and two smaller for the chimes of the quarters. The weight of the greater is 84 cwt., its diameter ten feet, and its sound may be heard for a great distance. It is never tolled but on the death and funeral of any of the blood royal, the bishop, or the lord mayor. The length of the minute hand of the clock is eight feet, of the hour hand five feet five inches. The diameter of the face of the dial is eighteen feet ten inches, and the length of the horary figures two feet two inches and a half.

In the area at the west front of the cathedral is a statue of queen Anne, by Bird, on a pedestal ensculptured with figures of Britannia, Hibernia, America, and France. The figures, which had become greatly injured, have been lately repaired.

A List of the Archbishops and Bishops of London.

"Thus much says Stowe," out of Joceline of Furnes concerning the Archbishops of London, the credit whereof I leave to the judgment of the learned."

1199 William de Sancta Maria; dean of 1405 Roger de Waldron, who had been

1304 Ralph de Baldock, dean of St. 1489 Richard Hill, dean of the king's

1317 Richard de Newport, dean of St. 1501 William Warham, keeper of the

1340 Ralph de Stratford, cannon of St. 1530 John Stokesley, prebendary of St.

1539 Edmund Bonner, translated from 1633 William Juxon, translated from

1604 Richard Vaughan, translated from 1748 Thomas Sherlock, granslated from

Cheap Ward,

DERIVES its name from the Saxon word chepe, signifying a market, which was anciently held in the principal street of this ward, now called Cheapside, and formerly West-chepe, to distinguish it from the other market in Candlewick Ward, called East-chepe, the most ancient market of the metropolis. Belonging to the Westchepe market was the poultry market, which still retains the former name, and the milk market in Milk-street. The bread market was in the ward of that name in West-chepe.

It is bounded on the north by Bassishaw and Coleman-street Wards; on the east by Broad-street and Walbrook Wards; on the south by Cordwainers-street Ward; and on the west by Queenhithe and Cripplegate Wards. It extends from the entrance of St. Mildred's-court, (formerly called Scaldingalley, in the north-east, to nearly the east corner of Milk-street; and from the corner of Walbrook, on the south-east to within thirty-three feet west of Bow-lane, on the south-west: in which extent are included the Poultry, the east end of Cheapside, (to the limits above given), Bucklersbury, part of Pancras-lane, Queenstreet, and Bow-lane on the south side; Grocer's-alley, part of the Old Jewry, Iroumonger-lane, King-street, Lawrence-lane, Honey-lane market, and the principal part of Cateaton-street in the north.

These are divided into nine precincts, - St. Mary-le-bow; Allhallows, Honey-lane; St. Lawrence, Cateaton-street ; St. Martin, Ironmonger-lane; St. Mary, Colechurch; St. Mildred, Poultry ; St. Pancras, Soper-lane; St. Stephen; and St. Bennett.

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