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the spot where the Crimean monument now stands. 

 Beyond the abbot's house, just west of the cloister, was 

 the abbot's little garden. The northern part of Dean's 

 Yard was from very early times known as " The Elms," 

 from the grove of fine trees, some of which remain. It 

 is said that when Elizabeth ascended the throne and 

 summoned Abbot Feckenham, who had been reinstated 

 by Mary, he was planting some, perhaps these identical, 

 elm trees. Among them formerly stood a huge oak, 

 which was blown down in 1791- The horse pool was 

 on the west of the Elms, and beyond both to the south 

 lay the numerous adjuncts of the monastery, the brew- 

 house, bakehouse, and granaries. Skirting this enclosure 

 was the " Long Ditch," which flowed by the line of the 

 present Delahay Street and Prince's Streets, and passed 

 along outside of the wall of the Infirmary Garden, in what 

 is now Great College Street, and fell into the Thames. 

 This stream turned the mill from which " Millbank " 

 took its name. In it, to the south of the granary, was 

 a small island osier bed. The sale of the osiers on it 

 used to bring in los. annually in the fourteenth century. 

 Beyond the stream were more gardens. The " Hostry 

 Garden " was a large one on the site of the church 

 of St. John, and next to it the " Bowling Alley," where 

 Bowling Street ran in later times, and to the west of that 

 was a kitchen-garden. Somewhere also on the west of 

 the " Long Ditch," before it turned towards the Thames 

 near the osier island, must have been the "Precentor's 

 Mede," or, as it was sometimes called, the " Chaunter's- 

 hull," and also the "Almoner's Mede" or " Almery 

 Garden." On the other side of the " Hostry Garden," 

 southwards on the site of " Vine Street " and " Market 

 Street," was situated the vineyard, without which no 



