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fZondmiana. 



[Dec. J, 



which had been paid to artifts, adds (p. 

 9,) "■ I have alfo heard what a round 

 fumme was otlcred by ftrangers for the 

 altar-clflth of St. Magnus in London." 



DEAN STREET, SOIIO. 



When Theodore, the unfortunate King 

 of Coifica, was fo reduced as to lodge 

 in a garret in Dean-ftrcct, a number of 

 gentlemen made a collection for his re- 

 lief, riie chairman of the committee 

 informed him by letter, that on the fol- 

 lowing day, at twelve o'clock, two gen- 

 tlemen would wait upon him with the 

 money. To give his attic apartment an 

 appearance of royalty, the poor monarch 

 l)iaccd an arm-chair on his halt-teftercd 

 ced, and feating liimfelf under the fcanty 

 canopy, gave what he thought might 

 ferve as the rcpreftntation of a throne. 

 When his two vilitors entered the room, 

 lie gracioully held out his right hand, 

 ^hat they might have the honour of kilf- 

 ing it. (Ireland's Hogarth, vol. i. p. 12.) 



ACBATIAL KKSIDENHIES IN THE 

 METROPOLIS. 



Previous to the diflfoiution of rchgious 

 houfcs under Henry the VHIth., tjic 

 fuperior of every great monaftery had a 

 relidence in town. The following occur 

 in the hiftories and other works relating 

 to the Antiquities of London. 



The abb<n of St. Anflin's, Canterbury, 

 Jiad a houfo in the jjarifli of St. Olavc's, 

 South warl;. 



Tiie abbot of Evelliam, near Billetrr- 

 lanc, in the pariih of St. Catherine 

 Crce. 



The abbot of Reading, near Baynard's 

 Cafllc, in St. Andrew's \Vardrobe pariih. 



The abbot of St. Mary's, York, at St. 

 Peter's Place, nigh Paul's Wharf. 



The abbots of Ijcireder and Glafton- 

 bury, in the pariflj of St. Sepulchre's, 

 Smithfield. 



The abbot of Hyde, at St. Mary Hill 



The abbot of Ramfey, in Whitecrofs- 

 fireet. 



The abbot of Bury, near Aldgate, in 

 tlie parifli of St. Mary in thcPapey (now 

 Bevis Marks). 



The abbot of Peterborough, at Peter- 

 borough Place, near St, Paul's. 



Tiie abbot (f Salop, in Smithfield. 



The prior of Tortington, in Switliin'si 

 lane. 



The prior of Sempringham, in Cow- 

 lane, Smithfield. 



The prior of Okeburne, in Caflle- 

 lane. 



The prior of Lewes and the abbot of 

 Battle, in Southwark. 



The abbot of Vale Royal, in Fleeti 

 ftrcet : and 



The abbot of Waltham, at BillingC 

 gate. 



Tiiefe, added to the refidenccs of tht^ 

 nobility, the city halls, and the monaft 

 teries, muft have rendered London a 

 more fplendid, if not a more interellin^, 

 fcene than even at the prefent day. 



CLERKENWr.LL. 



In the church of DingJey, in North-k 

 aniptonfliirc, is a brafs plate with this 

 infcription : 



" Hore rcfteth tlie bodye of Anne 

 Borocghe, feconde daughter of Nicholas 

 Boroe|4iic, of Stanmer in the countye of 

 Middlcfexe, TSquKT, Jumet.i/me ■prof'cjjcd 

 of C/crkcuucIl ncre London, who died 

 the 9tli of Aprill, in tiie yere of ouie 

 Lord God lo77, after flie had lyved 75 

 yearcs ; to the great lofle of the poor* 

 who divers ways were by her relieved." 



A VOWESS. 



A vowefs, tJic widow of Robert Large, 

 a former mayor of London, had lakeu 

 the mantle and ring, and the vow to live 

 chaftc to God for the term of her life: 

 but in 1444 rcmarning to John Gedney, 

 drajier, and twice lord mayor, they were 

 both troubled by the chuiih, and forced 

 to do f'tiiancc for it. (See Strype's edi- 

 tion of Stowe's Survey, vol. i. lib. ii. p. 

 123.) The hiilory of tlie vowels may, 

 perhaps, be bell illuftrated by a reference 

 to SaintTFojx's Hiitorical Elfays upon 

 Paris. In Trance, thofe were railed 

 voweiVes or reclufes, whether maids or 

 widows, wiio built theinfclvcs a littlsf 

 chamber joining to tlie wall of fome 

 church. The ceremony of their reclu- 

 ftoii was performed with great pomp, the 

 church was hung with tapedry, the biihop 

 celebrated mafs pontificfJly, preached, 

 and afterwards went himfelf to fcal the 

 door of the little, chamber, alter haviiijj 

 copioully fpriiikled it witli holy water. 

 Tlicrc remained nothing but a little win- 

 dow, through which the pious folitary 

 heard the offices of the church, and re- 

 cei\'cd the neoelfaries of life, 

 pai'l's gate. 



Paul's Gate, which was one of the 

 principal gates of the Cathedral-Clofe, 

 occurs in a chartiilarv of St. Giles's hol- 

 pital, as early as 1187. It flood at the 

 entrance into Chc^pfide, a few yards 

 from the top of Patcrnofter-row. 



Stowc fays, that at the reception of 

 Margaret, wife ' of Henry \'I., in Lon-. 

 ^lon," ill the year ld45, leveral pageants 



