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may have inspired the lark to carol so joyously as to 
call up the “vision of poor Susan.” 
St. Botolph’s, Aldersgate, has one of the largest 
churchyards in the City, but it really consists of four 
pieces of land thrown into one in 1892, by a scheme 
under the London Parochial Charities, which contri¬ 
buted part of the purchase-money of some of the 
land, and gives £150 a year for the upkeep—^100 
being paid to them by the General Post Office, which 
has the right of light over the whole space. One- 
half of the churchyard is St. Botolph’s, and the rest 
is made up of the burial-grounds of St. Leonard, 
Foster Lane, and Christ Church, Newgate Street, 
and a strip of land which might have been built 
on, but which, under the revised scheme in 1900, 
became permanently part of this open space. The 
garden is carefully laid out; there are nice plane trees 
and a little fountain, regular paths and numerous seats. 
A sheltered gallery runs along one side, and in it 
are tablets to commemorate deeds of heroism in humble 
life—Londoners who lost their lives in saving the lives 
of others. The church of St. Botolph was one which 
escaped the Fire, but had fallen into such disrepair 
that it was rebuilt, by Act of Parliament, in 1754. 
The Act specially stipulates that none of the grave¬ 
stones were to be removed, but where some of them 
are, now that it is a trim garden, it would be hard to 
say. Being not far from the General Post Office, this 
garden is so much used by its officials during the middle 
of the day, it has earned the name of the “ Postman’s 
Park.” 
Another much-frequented but much smaller church¬ 
yard is that of St. Katharine Coleman. Suddenly, in 
