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Londiniana. 



[Oct. 1, 



TCKVEE OF LONDON'. 



The Bcaucliainp TT)wcr is noted for 

 the illiidnoub |)cri'oniiges coiit'mcd wilhin 

 its vvalls. ^\inong them is the ill-fated 

 Amia Biilleiii. It was from hence flie 

 vroic ht;r celebrated Letter to her piti- 

 Ic-la ty/anl, dated tVom her doleful piifon 

 ill the Tower. It is a conij-.ofition tluit 

 gi\es place to none in the true pathetic. 

 From hence (lie was led to the block, 

 })lciced on the green nigh the Tower 

 Ch:!|)el, and received the fatal ftroke 

 ■with patience and relignation, on the 

 19th of May, 1536. 



An innocent nfurprefs fiicceeded to 

 ber iipartinents in loj.'J. Here the ami- 

 Jihie, the learned, the ^ood Jane Gray, 

 was comniitted for the faults of aii ambi- 

 tious father-in-law, and reinained a pri- 

 foiier live nioutlis. She fceiued to have 

 been pitied even by Mary ; and proba- 

 bly would not have futVered, but for the 

 iinprndent infiirrection of the Duke of 

 Sutlulk. She fell at the aiie of fi'venteen, 

 on tlie fame ipot as Anna Bullcin, on Ja- 

 nuary the 12tli, 15o3-4, and with moft 

 invincible fortitude. As llie was coii- 

 ducied to the block, /lie met the headlcfs 

 body of her hiill;aiid, beheaded jufl be- 

 fore on Tower-hJll. 



IJere alfo, in ]5o7, was imprifoned 

 Philip Earl of Arundei, fon of the Duke 

 of Norfolk, for afpiring to the bed of 

 Mary Queen of Scots; 



And here may be added, that the 

 Beauehanip Tower was foinetiincs a j)ri- 

 fon for pcrfons of Icl's note, as ajwears 

 by the numerous inl'criptions cut on the 

 walls or on the vvainfcot : thofe however 

 of Dudley Duke of Northumberland, 

 l.'iS.j, Lady Jane Grav, and the Earl of 

 Arundel, are av.ionj: tliein. — (.See .['en- 

 ■Hanr, and the Arcbajologia.) 



FKNCmniCII-STREF.T. 



Fcnchurch-ftreet, fays Maitland, took 

 its name from the Laii'^bourn, a rivulet 

 or bourn, that arofc ne;u- the place which 

 is i)n\i- Ma<:pye-all(.y, and fpreadint; near 

 the ipriui^-head, reiuicred tlic coniiguous 

 lireet i'o moorilli or fenny, efpecially 

 about the church, which flood in the 

 broad-way between Mincing-lane and 

 Rood-lane, that it from thence obtained 

 the name of Feiichurch-ltrect. 

 T.oni)-MAvou;>. 



The flrlt lord-mayor that v.-ent by wa- 

 ter to Wcflmiiilier was John Norman, 

 1 4o3. There is a drawing of the (how 

 •Ml the 1 iver in the Pepyiian Library. Sir 

 Gilbert llcatlicote was the kill that rode 

 on l.i'rfehack, in Queen Anne's time. 

 Sir John Shaw was the firft in ];>01.— 



(See Lambardc's Dictionary, p.l73.) But 

 Grafton fays they rode before. Sir 

 Humphrey Edwyn, who, in 1697, rode 

 to a conventicle in his formalities, with 

 the infignia of his otlice, is immortalized 

 in Swift's Tale of a Tub, — ffee the Sup- 

 plement to the Dean's Works, 1776, 

 p. 591,) — aud piol)ably (jccalioned the 

 provifo in the ilatute 5 G. L, c. 4, which 

 declares that any mayor, bailitf, or other 

 magiftrate, being prcfent at any place of 

 public v.orlhip, other than the Church of 

 Englaml, in the peculiar habit of his of- 

 fice, or attended with the enligns thereof, 

 fliall, on conviction, be adjudged inca- 

 pable to hi ar any public othce or em- 

 ployment whatfoever. — (See the Britilh 

 Topography, vol. 1, pp. 675, 779, and 

 Strutt's Manners of the Englilh, ike.) 



KEW CRAVEJL-LANE, SliADWKI.L, 



Was iiamcfl from the carts loaded with 

 gravel which palTed through it to the 

 'Ihames, w here the gravel vvas employed 

 in ballaftiiij; fliips, before ballaliiiig was 

 taken outoftlie river. It obtained the 

 epithet of "Sew, to difringnilb it from the 

 Old Gravcl-Iaiie, vliich was ufed for the 

 fame purpofe long before. — (See London 

 and its Environs.) 



BUCKLERSBCRY. 



To " fmell like Biicklerlbury in Jimp/c 

 time," is a plirafe of Shakefpcare's in the 

 Merry Wives of Windfor. It was then 

 chielly inhabited by drnggifls, who fold 

 all kinds of herbs, green as well as dry. 

 Their lu.-ufes wvrc obferved, in the time 

 of the plague, to be kept free from vifita- 

 tion. 



Decker, in the Weftward Hoe, a co- 

 medy, IGOr, fays, " Go into Bucklcrlhu- 

 IT and fetch ine two ounces of prefirved 

 nitJoimes ; hiok there be no tobacco 

 taken in the (hop when he weighs it.'' — 

 And again, " Run into Bucklerfliury for 

 two ounces of dragon-water, fome fjjer- 

 maceti and treacle." 



The tower called Cernes-tower, hero, 

 was amortized by Edward HI., in the 

 . thirty-fecond year of his reign, to the 

 Dean of St. Stephen's Chapel, Welbnin- 

 fter.— (Pat. 32 Edw. III., p. 1, m. 9.) 



CR.\NBOURX-AI.I.EV. 



In this court the celebrated Hogarth 

 was apprenticed to Mr. Iv. Gamble, a 

 iiiverrmith, with whom l;is chief employ- 

 ment was to engrave cy fibers and armo- 

 rial lynibols. He remained here about 

 fix years, till 1718. — (See Ireland's IIo- 

 ganh, vol. 1, ]>. 17.) 



Dl: VONSH I RE-MF,WS. 



Devonlliire-Mews are built on the fite 

 of the aiitient Manor-floufe of Mnry- 



boiJOj 



