LON 
This edifice confifts of a plain body, built of (lone, 
veil lighted by a fingle range of windows. It is (ixty- 
three feet long, and forty-three feet broad ; thirty-fix feet 
high to the roof, and one hundred and thirty-five to the 
top of the fpire. The tower is plain, but (lengthened 
with ruftic at the corners ; and the fpire, which is the 
frultum of a pyramid, and covered with lead, has a gal¬ 
lery, and many openings. This wasthefirft church built 
and completed after the fire. The advowfon of this rec¬ 
tory was anciently in the dean and chapter of St. Martin’s 
le Grand ; but, upon the grant of that collegiate church 
to the abbot and canons of Wedminder, the patronage 
devolved to that convent, in whom it continued till the 
diffolution of their monallery ; when, coming to the 
crown, it remained therein till queen Elizabeth, in the year 
1560, granted the patronage thereof to Thomas Reeve and 
George Evelyn, and their heirs, in foccage ; who convey¬ 
ing it to others, it came at lad to the family of the Hackers, 
one whereof was colonel Francis Hacker, commander of 
the guard that conducted king Charles I. to and from his 
trial, and, at lad, to the fcaffold ; for which, after the 
refloration, he was executed as a traitor; when the ad- 
vowfon reverted to the crown, in whom it ftill continues. 
On the fide of Lambeth-hill was a handfome building 
called Blackfmiths’ Hall ; but this has lately been pulled 
down, and the bufmefs of the company is tranfa6led at 
Cutlers’ Hall. 
Purfuing our deambulations from the main point through 
Old Fifli-llreet, wefoonmeet Bread-ftreet and Bread-dreet 
Hill. It appears, that in the reign of Edward I. an order 
was ifl'ued, by which the bakers were obliged to come to 
certain open markets to fell their bread, and not expofe it 
in (hops as they do now; and this place was one of them. 
The intention of this regulation was, that, by a natural 
competition, (natural we fay, becaufe it is in the nature 
of man to outdo his neighbours if he can, which in more 
elegant words is called the vis cemulativa, or emulation,) it 
might be expefled that this fird of the necefi'aries of life 
iliould be yielded to the public at the lowed rate pofiible. 
The fame expectation has left the meat-market open to 
this day in the fame manner; but has been difappointed, 
like many other well-meant and benevolent intentions of 
our ancedors. 
Bread-dreet is a well-built open dreet, on the ead fide 
of which, at the corner of Watling-dreet, is the parfth- 
church of Allhallows, Bread-dreet. This church re¬ 
ceived its name from being dedicated to all the faints, and 
its fituation. It is a reiStory of very ancient foundation ; 
the patronage of which was originally in the prior and 
canons of Chrid-churcb in Canterbury, who remained 
patrons of it till the year 1365, when it was conveyed to 
the archbilhop of Canterbury and his fuccelfors, in whom 
it ftill continues, and is one of the peculiars belonging to 
that fee in the city of London. To this we may add a 
curious anecdote mentioned byStow :—“In the three-and- 
twentieth yeere of Henry VIII. two prieils of this church 
fell at variance, and the one drew blood of the other; 
wherefore the fame church was fufpended (interdittum), 
and no fervice fung or faid therein for the fpace of one 
moneth after. The prieds were committed to piifon ; 
and, the fifteenth of Oftober, being enjoined penance, 
went before a generall proceffion, bare-beaded, bare-footed, 
and bare-legged, before the children with beads and bookes 
in their hands, from Paul’s, through Cheap, Cornhill, &c.” 
Stow does not carry-the ceremony to the end ; but we may 
very naturally fuppofe that the procefiion returned to All¬ 
hallows, where our two prieds were egregioully flogged, 
whilfl the choir were fi.nging, as ufual on like occalions, 
the long—long pfalm Mi/erere mei, beating time quick or 
flow, according to the heinoufnefs of the crime.—The 
lleeple of this church was (truck by lightning on the 5th 
of September, 1559. Being afterwards totally deflroved 
by the fire of London in 1666, the prefent edifice was 
elected in 1684, at the expenfe of the public ; and ferves 
mot only for the accommodation of the inhabitants of its 
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own parifh, but likewife for thofe of St. John the Evange- 
lid, which is annexed to it by a< 5 t of parliament. This 
church con flits of a plain body, of the Tufcan order, fe- 
venty-two feet in length, thirty-five in breadth, and thirty 
in height to the roof ; with a fquare tower eighty-fix feet 
high, divided into four dages with arches near the top. 
The inllde is handfomely wainfeoted and pewed, the pui- 
pit finely carved, the founding-board veneered, a neat 
gallery at the wed end, and a fpacious altar-piece well 
adorned and beautified.—Jud by this church was Salters’ 
Hall, with fix alms-houfes “ for poore decayed brethren 
of that company.” The hall was burnt in 1539 ; rebuilt, 
burnt again in 1666 ; and then rebuilt ir. Swithin’s lane. 
The parifli-church of St. John the Evangelid Hood at 
the north-ead corner of Friday-dreet, in Watling-dreet; 
but, being burnt in the fire of London, was not rebuilt. 
It isareftory, founded about the fame time as Allhallows, 
and was alfo in the gift of the priory of Chrill-church, 
Canterbury, till it was conveyed with that church to the 
archbifliops of Canterbury, who dill retain it. The fite 
of the old church is now a burial-place for the pa- 
rifhioners ; and, though the parifh confids of no more 
than twenty-three houles, it has a feparate veftry, and two 
churchwardens. 
On the fame fide of Bread-dreet, fouth of Bafing lane, 
dands the parifli-church of St. Mildred, Bread-ftreet; fo 
called from its fituation, and its dedication to St. Mildred, 
niece to Penda king of the Mercians, who, having de¬ 
voted herfelf to a religious life, retired to a convent in 
France, from whence (lie ieturned, accompanied by fe- 
venty virgins, and founded a monadery in the Ille of 
Thanet, of which (he died abbefs, in the year 676.—Tiiis 
legendary dory feems to have been borrowed from the 
embarking of St. Urfula with 11,000 virgins in her train 
—a' failt, we fuppofe, not unlikely in tliofe virgin ages ; 
but which in our corrupted times would excite as much 
curiolity as aftonirtnnent. We wonder that no Englifh 
bidorical painter has ever, in imitation of Claude Lor¬ 
raine, exercifed his (kill in reprefenting the embarkation 
of St. Mildred with her numerous followers, with angels, 
in dead of nereids, fmoothing the waves, and laying the 
dorm, to foften their paflage to the lnfula Sanftorum, or 
Ifland of Saints, as this was anciently, and perhaps not 
undefervedly, called. 
It is a reitory, founded about the year 1300, by lord 
Trenchant, of St. Alban’s ; but it had neither veitry-room 
nor church-yard till 1428, when fir John Chadworth, or 
Shadworth, by his will, gave a veitry-room and church¬ 
yard to the parifhioners, and a parfonage-houfe to the 
rector. The old church was burnt down in 1666; and 
the prefent building was eredted in 1683. It confdts of a 
fpacious body, lighted by one large window on each of 
the four fides, with a circular roof. The length of the 
church is fixty-two feet, its breadth thirty-fix, the height 
of the fide-walls forty, and'to the centre of the roof fifty- 
two. At the fouth-xad corner is a light tower, divided 
into four Itages ; whence rifes a fpire, the altitude of 
which is a hundred and forty feet. The front of it is 
built of free-done, but the other parts of brick: the roof 
is covered with lead, and the floor paved with Purbeck- 
(lone. Within is a neat wainfeot gallery, and the pulpit 
is enriched ; the altar-piece is handfomely adorned, and 
the communion-table (lands upon a foot-piece of black 
and white marble. The advowfon of this church was 
anciently in the prior and convent of St. Mary Overy’s, 
in Southwark, by whom it.was granted, in the year 1533, 
to John Oliver, and others, for a term of yedrs; at tjie ex¬ 
piration of which it came to fir Nicholas Crifp, in whole 
family, or alfigns, it (tiil continues. 
When the prefent edifice was built, it was made parochial 
for tiiis parilband that of St. Margaret Moles; the church 
of which flood at the fouth-weft corner of Little Friday- 
dreet, oppoiite to Didaft-lane ; and was thus named from, 
being dedicated to St. Margaret, and from one Mofes, or 
Moyfes, who had formerly .rebuilt it; but, differing by 
