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them irrefiftibly from all parts of Weftminfter, and even 
ten miles further back in various direftions. This great 
ofcillation, like that of the tide_, takes place twice a-day, 
morning and evening ; and it is curious to fee the fame 
faces at°nine and at four, at eight and at (even, hurrying 
along, and pacing every day at the fame time, the north¬ 
ern and fouthern pavement of the church-yard. The fla¬ 
tionary Ihopman on Ludgate-hill or Fleet-ftreet, while 
dangling at his (hop-door in expedlation of a cuftomer, 
not unlike the immoveable rocks in the fea, witneffes the 
palfing currents and heaving furges of the multitude ; and 
perhaps fighs for a walk, wh'dll fome of the paffengers 
are longing for a lhare of his fedentary life.—There are 
alfo two other fets of beings ofcillating in the fame man¬ 
ner through the church-yard ; the beggars and the Cy¬ 
prians. Adluated by the fame motive as the others we 
have mentioned, namely, interdt, they however keep a 
(lower pace, confcious that they (hall get more by loiter¬ 
ing along than by balling away. 
Befides thefe moving l'cenes, on both fides of the yard, 
we have alfo l'ome fixed ones. The old blind Ifraelite 
felling fpedacles and Ihoe-llrings, the young one offering 
his red and blue dippers, and the ftreet-warblers generally 
well attended at dulk, when pickpockets and (harpers look 
out of their hiding-holes to feek for prey. As for the 
full whom we have mentioned, the blind old man, who 
lias fat every day ever fince the year 1764, that is for the 
(pace of half a century, near the Heps of the Chapter- 
lioufe, with his fnug Wellh wig, his well-fet box of trin¬ 
kets on his knee, and attended by his faithful wife, we 
miffed him for fome time during the late froff : and, as 
he was one of the fixtures of that part of the church-yard, 
it occafioned the writer of this, anticipating his final de¬ 
parture, to make him the fubjeift of a parody, in a London 
church-yard, of Gray’s admired Elegy ina Country church¬ 
yard. 
Haply fome wonted paffenger will fay : 
“ Oft have we feen him fitting on his ftool; 
Brulhing, with hady hand, the dull away 
From (hoe-ftrings black and many a ivory tool. 
There near the (hade of yonder nodding tree. 
That (hoots its old fantaftic boughs fo high ; 
His well-cramm’d box he would fct on his knee, 
And gently call on thofe that hobbled nigh ; 
Hard by yon fteps, which high-bred clnirch-men tread, 
Mutt’ring his wayward fancies to his guide ; 
Now fcratching bare his Welfti wig to a thread 5 
Or groping for his old (tick at his fide. 
One morn we mifs’d him at the ’cuftom’d fpot. 
Along the yard and near his fav’rite railing ; 
Another came—and there we found him not 
Nor at the fteps, nor walking up the paling. 
The next we alk’d where was the blind man gone 
Who (old neat trinkets and fair ribbons by ? 
Ah ! no one knew where was poor blind man—none. 
But who would give his anfwer with a figh. 
We ought here to notice the improvement lately made 
at the north-eaft of the church-yard, where the patent me¬ 
dicine drop has gently retired, on being rebuilt, a few feet, 
and now rifes with much elegance to (ace Cheapiide at the 
fouth entrance of Paternofter-row, as a very fmart toyfhop 
does at the north entrance. 
At the fouth-weft corner of St. Paul’s church-yard, and 
to the left of Dean’s Court, is St. Paul’s College, curioudy 
(ituatcd between a wine-merchant’s of moft extenfive bu- 
. dnefs, and anale-houfe well-known by the name of Tobit’s 
Dog; one of the houfes of that defcription which keeps 
open late in the night, and where hackney coachmen w ho 
ply oppofite, and the Paphian damfels who pace up and 
down the adjoining hill, generally repair for, as they call 
it, a JiniJk, confiding of the rear-glafs, to conclude the 
tippling of the.evening.—The college, which one would 
expect to be fome large building, is nothing but a fmall 
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court, containing two 6r three houfes, appropriated to 
the minor canons of the cathedral, who, in the 18th of 
Richard II. obtained letters patent, conftituting them a 
body politic, by the name of the College of the Twelve 
Petty Canons of St. Paul’s Church. 
Facing this college, on the fpot of ground trow called 
London-houfe-yard, formerly ftood the bifnop of London’s 
palace, a very large and magnificent houfe, which was 
deftroyed by the fire of London. In this palace king 
Edward V. was lodged, when brought to London to take 
poffeffion of the crown. 
London-houfe-yard has a narrow entrance into Pater¬ 
nofter-row, nearly oppofite Newgate-market, and a paf- 
(age which runs behind the houfes extending to the pub¬ 
lic houfe called the Goofe and Gridiron. Seep. m. 
A Hand for the ftages to Fulham, Hammerfmith, Turn- 
ham-green, See. is oppofite: and the mufic-ffiop at the 
corner reminds us of a celebrated fatirical effufion of 
Peter Pindar concerning Mr. Thomfon, who fo long in¬ 
habited the houfe. The range of houfes on the north 
makes an elegant (how ; among and them we remark feve- 
ral trunk makers, befides the one at the eaft corner, never 
forgotten at fea in the jolly (ailor’s toaft. To thefe we 
may add two or three refpedtable bookfellers, and Carring¬ 
ton Bowles’s famous print-fhop, never in want of outlide 
cuftomers.—The fouth lide, the only thoroughfare for 
carriages, exhibits alfo a rich appearance, by two or three 
glafs and china (hops, and feveral uphollterers ; and never 
appears to more advantage than on lord-mayor’s day, when 
the pageantry, though much inferior to the pageants of 
old, which we have had occafion to mention in the courfc 
of this article, fills up the whole of the fpace in its war 
to Guildhall. 
Ere we begin our perambulations from the centre of the 
city to the fartheft verge of this extenfive metropolis, wc 
(hall indulge in a lounge about the (treets furrounding 
St. Paul’s; and take the firft opening on the fouth fide, 
called Paul’s Chain, which leads down to the Thames. 
The firft fubjeft upon which we reft is the Chambers of 
Diana, which, as Stowe deferibes it, was a vaulted ftruc- 
ture. “Upon Paul’s Warfe Hill,” fays he, “within a 
great gate, and belonging to that gate next to Dodtors’ 
Commons, are many faire tenements, which, in their 
leafes from the dean and chapter, goe by the name and 
title of Camera Diana, fo denominated from a fpacious 
building that in the time of Henry II. ftood where they 
now are (landing. In this Camera (Chamber) or arch’d 
and vaulted ftrudture (full of intricate wayes and wind¬ 
ings), this Henry II. (as fome time he did at Woodftoke) 
did keepe, or was fuppofed to have kept, that jewell of 
his heart, fair Rofamond ; (he whom there he called Rofa- 
mundi, and here by the name of Diana; and from thence 
had this houfe that title. To this day are remaines and 
fome evident teftifications of tedious turnings and wind¬ 
ings ; and alfo of a paffage under ground from this houfe 
to Caftle Baynard, which was no doubt the king’s way 
from thence to his Camera Diana, or the chamber^of his 
brightell Diana.”—We do not apprehend that any vifible 
remains of this paffage do exill now ; it was moft probably- 
filled up at the re-conftrudtion of the houfes upon St. Ben- 
net’s Hill after the great fire. 
Juft by this was, and remains dill, as far as the name 
goes, Paul’s Baker’s Court, anciently Paul’s Bake-houfe, 
where the bread for the church of St. Paul’s was baked. 
It is now a fmall but neat quadrangle, the principal build¬ 
ing of which is ufed for the regiltry of the admiralty_. 
Oppofite was Paul’s Brew-hopfe, which foon gave way to 
the Powle’s Head Tavern. A memento of this we find in 
the name of the tavern at the entrance of Dean’s Court 5 
the Paul’s Head, and now the Queen’s Head, tavern and 
coffee-houfe ; a place frequented by gentlemen of o-reat 
refpedlability, from the church, from the commons,°and 
all the neighbourhood of St. Paul’s. 
Coming down the hill, which, though not long, has 
obtained three names —Paul's Chain, from a chain placed 
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