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lione, which, fays Mr. Lyfons, (Environs 

 of London, vol. 3, p. 244,) during the 

 tiiiic that it was vefted in the Crown, is 

 laid to have been ufcd as one of the pa- 

 laces. It was pulled down in the year 

 1791. By a drawini^ of Rookcr's, in the 

 polfeffion of John White, EIV|., of De- 

 vonfliire-place, itfeenis to iia\e retaiiied 

 fonie traces of the architecture of Queen 

 Elizabeth's time ; but the greater part 

 appears to have been rebuilt at a later 

 period, and the fouth iront was certainly 

 added or renewed not more than a cen- 

 tury ago. 



LO'DOX-BRIDGE. 



Peter de Colechurch, chaplain of St. 

 Mary Colechurch, began London-bridge 

 in 11 70, the 22d year of Henry 11, : 

 Ifembert, niafter of the fcho(jls of Xante, 

 who had lately built a bridge there, and 

 at Rochelle, was appointed by King 

 John to iinilh it, which he did in 1209. 

 In the ninth pier was a chapel dedicated 

 to St. Thomas. The lovei-s of antiquity 

 muft regret tlu; demolition of this lingu- 

 lar, perhaps unparalielcfl, monument, in 

 foiue alterations of the Bridge which took 

 place about twenty years aao. Its length 

 was fixty-fi\c by twenty feet, and its 

 height fouitcen, divided into two fturies : 

 the upper, in modern times, ferved for a 

 dvvelling-houfe, the lower for a ware- 

 houfe. 



William of Worceftre, who travelled in 

 1478, gives the following account of the 

 dimenlions as he faw them. 



" Longitude Capellue Santti Thomse 

 Martyris fuper Ponteni Londoniarum 

 circa 20 virgas cum cancella inferius in 

 »olta quani iiiperius cum choro, led lon- 

 gitude navis dictifi Capella; continet 14 

 virgas. 



" Latitude de medieta gryfcs eft una 

 >irga. 



" Longitudo pontis ex parte mcridio- 

 nali de le poltis ad ]3ort;uu priniani no\'i- 

 ter fundutam per Hcnricum Cardinalem 

 iifque ad duas polias erectas prope eccle- 

 fiani functi Magni continet 300 grcifus 

 iiieos. 



" Item font 5 magna; feneftra: in uno 

 I'.itere, qucelibet feiieltra continet \j pa- 

 iios. 



This pad'agc will be found at page 301 

 of Williams's Itinerary, Mr. Nafmith's 

 edition, though it is referred to neither 

 fi oni the Table of Contents nor the In- 

 dex. 



A view both of the Bridge and Chapel, 

 aj they flood a few years after, in the 

 time of Henry \l\., may be leen in the 

 Hiftory of ?[i;Q>y, copied f eiu rhe Illu- 



mination of an old manufcript in tli« 

 Royal Library. 



QUF.EX-irYTIlE. 



" In this thiity-fecond yerc of tlie 

 kyng, (1248.) the wharfe of London cal- 

 1yd Queue Hythe, was taken to fer.nc by 

 the comynaltye of the cytye, to pay yerely 

 therefore L pounde. The whyche v\a* 

 then coramytted to the ihn'^'c's charge, 

 and fo hatli contynuyd ever fen that 

 tyine to thys daye. 



" Whereof the profytys and tollys are 

 fo fore mynylhed, that at this daye 

 (1516, J yt is lytle worth ouer xx marke 

 or XV pounde one yere with another.—* 

 (Fabyan's Chronicle.) 



GKESUAM-COr.Lr.GE. 



Among the prints which adorn Ward's 

 Lives of the Grefliam ProfelVors, is a 

 \'iew of Greiliain-Collegc, with a giite- 

 \\ ay, entering from Broad-llreet, marked 

 25.' Within are the figures of two per- 

 fons, the one ftanding, the other kneel- . 

 ing ; thefe reprcfent Dv. Mead and Dr. 

 Woodward, the profelVor of phyfic there, 

 and allude to a traulkction of which the 

 following is the hiilory. In the exercife 

 of his profeflion. Dr. Woodward had laid 

 or done fometliing that had given ollcnce 

 to Dr. Mead. Mead, refenting it, was de- 

 termined to have fatisfaction, and nieeC- 

 ing Woodward in this place, when he 

 was returning to his lodgings in the Col- 

 lesie, drew, as did his adveifary ; but 

 ^iead having obtained the advantage of 

 liim, commanded him to beg his life ; 

 Woodward anlwered, with fome wit, 

 " No ! Doctor, that I will not, till I am 

 your patient." Hiwever, he yielded, 

 and his fubmiffion is marked by a iituai- 

 tion that reprcfents him tendering his 

 fword. Dr. ilead was the friend and 

 patron of \y&v<l, which may poliibly ac- 

 count for the above fact being fo liugu- 

 larly recorded. 



POOn-JEWrvY-LANE. 



Tlie chief places in which the Jews 

 originally dwelt before they were expel- 

 led the kingdom by Edward I., have 

 been already mentioned. On their re- 

 admiilion they iixed upon a new quarter 

 of the tow n, which occalioned the name 

 of Old Jewry to be given to the principal 

 (Ireet of their former relideiice. In 

 Cromwell's time they fettled tirft in Poor 

 Jewry-lane, nigh Aldgate, and fiili for the 

 moll part remain comincd to its vicinity. 

 . ST. cle.mf.nt's. 



Among the church-proceffions revived 



by Queen Mary, that of St. Cleniem's, in 



honour of its patron-fiiiiit, was by far tlie 



molt fplendiJ of any in London. l'h& 



11 h 2 proceiUoa 



