2 Antiquity and Early 



He says, '' the followers of the several trades, the 

 vendors of the various commodities, and the 

 labourers of every kind, are daily to be found in 

 their proper and distinct places according to their 

 respective trades."^ This statement is, moreover, 

 supported by the existing nomenclature of many 

 modern City streets and thoroughfares, the names 

 of which recall the trades and occupations 

 anciently plied in the several localities, such as 

 the Poultry,^ Cordwainer Street,^ etc. Similarly 

 the Saddlers of London were anciently to be 

 found at the west end of Cheapside, or, as it was 

 called, Westchepe, their locality bearing the 

 distinctive name of the " Saddlery." Among the 

 ancient wills enrolled in the Court of Husting, at 

 Guildhall, there is a will of one Isabella Bokrel, 



" The Saddierie ^^^^^ 1280, in which mention is 

 of Westchepe." niade of a tenement in the Saddlery 

 of Westchepe. 



Over against " the Saddlery " stood the famous 

 conventual and collegiate church of St. Martin's- 

 le-Grand, founded by Wythred, or Withu, 

 King of Kent, in the eighth century, and 



^ Dr. Pegge's edition : " Singulorum officiorum exercitatores 

 singularum venditores, singularum operarum suamm locatores 

 cotidiano mane per se sunt locis distincti omnes ut officiis." 

 i^De dispositione iirbis.) 



^ Described by Stow as the special locale of the London 

 Poulterers. 



^ Shoemakers, so-called from their using the famous leather 

 of Cordova. 



