92 A. D. 1544. 



great deceit of the king's fubjeds, &c. (mod of which reprefentatiou 

 appears to have been an impofition on the parhament.) It was now 

 therefore enaded, that no perfon whatever, within or nigh to the coun- 

 ty of York, fhall make any coverlets for fale, but inhabitants alone, 

 dwelling within the city of York and its fiiburbs, upon forfeiture, &c. 

 V\/^hat could be a greater monopoly than this ? Or what a greater injuf- 

 tice to the poor manufacturers in other parts of the county ? 



As the gradual increafe of the fuburbs of London does in a great 

 meafure keep pace with the gradual increafe of the general commerce 

 of England, and as it is, moreover, a piece of curious and entertaining 

 hiftory to mark the gradual advances of both, we therefore have no 

 need of an apology for exhibiting whatever falls in our way of that 

 kind. By a ftatute [34, 35 Hen. VIII, c. 12.] the ftreets and lanes call- 

 ed Whitecrofs-ftreet, Chiiwell-ftreet, Golding-lane, Grub-ftreet in the 

 pariHi of St. Ciilcs's without Cripplegate, Gofwell-flreet, Long-lane in 

 the parifli of St. Botolph, and St. Sepulchre's without Newgate ; St. 

 John's-ftreet, leading from the bars of Smithfield up to the pound, at 

 the corner of the wall extending along the highway leading to Ifling- 

 ton ; and alio the flreet from the faid bars to Cow-crofs ; Water-lane in 

 Fleet-ftreet, leading down to the Thames ; the way leading without 

 Temple-bar wedward, by and unto Clement's Inn gates and New Inn 

 gates, to Drewry-place in the county»of Middlefex ; (this fhows that this 

 way was not then built on) and alfo one little lane ftretching from the 

 f\id way to the fign of the bell at Drewry-lane end ; and the common 

 way leading through a certain place called Petit-France, from the bars 

 of the weft end of Tothill-ftreet at Weftminfler, to the uttermofl part 

 of the v\^eft end of the laid place called Petit-France ,; the flreet or high- 

 way leading from Bidiopsgate to and above Shoreditch church ; and the 

 bridge called Strond-bridge, and the way leading from the fanie bridge 

 towards Temple-bar ; and the lane called Foikue-lane, from the garden 

 and tenement of the bifliop of Litchfield, and the gardens and tenement 

 called the Bell and Prodors, down to Strond-bridge (thefe names now 

 unknown), be very foul, and full of pits and floughs, very perilous and 

 noyous, and very neceflary to be kept clean, for the avoidmg of cor- 

 rupt lavours, and an occafion of peftilence ; for the amendment and 

 reformation whereof, all who had any lands or tenements adjoining to 

 the aforefaid ftreets, lanes, and ways, were ordered to pave the fame 

 with paving flones before their tenements to the middle of the flreet or 

 lane, in like manner c\nd form as the ftreets of the city of London be 

 paved, with caufeys or channels in the midft of the fame ftreets ; and 

 alfo to maintain the fune. 



In this year. King Henry VIII being at war with Scotland, the Eng- 

 lifti army took and pillaged the town and port of Leilh, (which is pro- 

 perly the port of Edinburgh.)' And Lord Herbert hereupon remarks, 



