280 NORTHERN MEMOIRS, 



stone, and mount the elevations of a large and 

 spacious street, called the High Pavement : but 

 Stony-Street and Pepper- Street, are all the 

 streets in Nottingham. The rest are either 

 lanes or gates: as Mary-Gate, Pilcher-Gate, 

 Fletcher-Gate, Well-Gate, Boyard-Lane, Swine- 

 Green, Saint-Jones's, and Hockly in the Hole, 

 &c. But the Week-day Shambles we leave on 

 our right hand; and on our left, those sandy 

 foundations that face the south : whose skirts 

 are moistned with the generous Leen, and there 

 live the tanners, tawyers, fell-mongers, parch- 

 ment and vellum-dressers, besides the glutiners, 

 that dwell in houses contiguous with the rocks ; 

 but the buildings are not underground, though 

 stooping so low as to level some part of the very 

 surface, refresh'd with fragrant aromas, sent from 

 the florid meadows of Trent. But this Terra 

 Nova, or Terra Incognita, they generally call it 

 the Narrow- Marsh. 



Theoph. Whereabouts are we now ? 



Am. Now we descend to the lower Paver 

 ment, by dividing the Town-Hall from the 

 Leaden Well, near unto which the Week-day 

 Cross is frequently crowded with country curi- 

 osities : but advancing forward in a direct line, 

 we encounter the fronteers of Castle-gate, and 

 leave the broad marsh, and Gray frier-gate on 

 our left hand. Towards the upper end of which 



