LON 
The tower Is divided into three Rages; in the loweft of 
which is a very elegant door with coupled columns of the 
Corinthian order; in the fecond is a large window, over 
which is another of a circular form not opened; in the 
third ftory is a window larger than the former; and the 
cornice-above this fupports a range of open-work in the 
place of battlements, on a baluftrade. Above this is the 
turret, which is compofed of four ftages, and decorated 
with columns, fcrolls, and ornaments. From the body of 
the church projects a very handfome dial; on the top of 
which is a llntue of St. James, to whom the church is de¬ 
dicated. 
A little to the eaft, on the fouth fide of Thames-flreet, 
is Vintners’ Hall. The gate is decorated with an iron 
railing, and two pofts of (tone furmounted with a Itone 
group of three tuns, and on the upper one the jolly god 
of Wineand mirth. The building is of brick bound with 
ffone; and the quadrangle has a good appearance. The 
front facing the (treet exhibits the talle of the time it was 
built. The hall is exceedingly handfome; and behind it 
is a fpacious garden confidering the fpot where it lies, and 
a narrow paft'age to the bank of the Thames. In the hall 
is a curious old fun-dial in painted glafs, with this appro¬ 
priate motto, Daw JpeClas fugio ; “ Whilllyou look, I flee.” 
The meaning is obvious; and points out the neceflity of 
making the belt ufe we can of Time, and not to trifle 
with his fleeting daughters, the Hours, but to turn them 
to advantage. Here is alfo a good picture of'St. Martin, 
on a white horfe, dividing his cloak with our Saviour, who 
appeared to him, in the year 337, in the charader of a 
beggar: 
Hie Chriflo chiamydem Martinus dimidiavit; 
lit faciamus idem nobis exemplifleavit. 
There is, befides, a ftatue of that faint in the fame room ; 
and another pidture of hint above flairs. “ Why this 
faint was feledled as patron of the company (fays Mr. 
Pennant) I know not, except it was imagined that, ac¬ 
tuated by good wine, he had been infpired with good 
thoughts; which, according to the argument of James 
Howel, producing good works, brought a man to heaven. 
And, to (how the moral in a contrary effed, here is a pic¬ 
ture of Lot and his inceftuous daughters, exemplifying 
the danger of the abufe of the belt things.” 
Here Mr. Pennant indulges his jocofe fancy; but the 
fad is, (though this well-read and intelligent author was 
not acquainted with it,) that the wine in France is ne¬ 
ver fit to be farted, fold, or drunk, till about Martinmas, 
the eleventh of November. At that period all the wine¬ 
makers from Champagne and Burgundy bring their goods 
to market; and St. Martin’s fair is held in molt of the de¬ 
partments of France as regularly as fairs for liorfes and 
cattle are held in England. All lands, the produce of 
which is wine, pay their rent on that day—and it is a 
day of rejoicing and mirth in all places contiguous to the 
vignobles. St. Martin’s day, and quaffing freely of the new 
wine, were fynonymous : and no wonder if the vintners 
of this country, whofe trade began from that day, chofe 
St. Martin for the tutelary patron of the company, and 
let up his image in their hall. The vineyards in France, 
however, as we are informed, are placed under the holy 
proteftion of St. Vincent, a deacon who fuffered martyr¬ 
dom under the emperor Decius; but we apprehend that 
this was for no other reafon than the alliteration of the 
firft fyllable of his name with the Latin word vinum, or 
the French vin, 
Whilft we were reading the diftich above quoted, we 
could not help calling to mind a curious legendary flory, 
which ends alfo with a Latin couplet. It is faid that 
Martin, after having given up the profefiion of a foldier, 
and been eleded bifhop of Tours, at that time when bi- 
fbops kept neither carriages, horfes, or fervants, he had oc- 
cafion to go on foot to Rome, in order to confult the pope 
upon fomc molt important ecclelialtical matter. As he 
talked gently along the road, he met—the Deyil, who 
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mod politely accorted him, and ventured to tempt his 
pride, by obferving bow fatiguing and indecorous it was 
for the mitred traveller to perform lb long a journey on 
foot. The faint knew the devil’s drift, and commanded 
him to become a heart of burthen, a jumentum-, which he 
did inllantly. The faint knew well how to manage a 
horfe, and jumped upon the devil’s (boulders, who at firft: 
trotted cheerfully along ; but it feems that the devil, any 
more than man, is not long of the fame mind ; for Satan 
foon flackened his pace. The bifliop had neither whip nor 
fpur ; but he had a better and more powerful ftimulus at 
hand : he made the fign of the crofs ; and then the devil 
galloped away ; but foon again the father of fin returned 
to idlenefs and obflinacy, and again Martin hurried him 
along with repeated lignsof the crofs—till at laft the tired 
reprobate, flung by thofe erodings fo hateful to him, ut¬ 
tered the following diftich: 
Signa te, figna ; temere me tangis et angis; 
Roma tibi fubito motibus ibit amor. 
The Angularity of which confifts in each line reading 
backwards as well as in the common way—for angis, the 
laft word of the firft line, being read backwards, makes 
figna, the firft word, and fo on.—Of thefe curious literary 
trifles we intend to produce feveral inftances under the 
word Paundromus. 
From Vintners’ Hall we afeend Queen-ftreet; and, re¬ 
turning to our eaftward walk, we find at the corner of 
Cloak-lane, St. Thomas’s church-yard, Hill planted with 
elm-trees, but offering no memento of the dead : two (treets 
under the name of this apoftle of the Gentiles are juft by ; 
and here we mult oblerve, that, on the fame fide, and not 
far from the Swedifh Lutheran chapel, Hands th tfrf Ro¬ 
man-catholic chapel that ever was permitted in the city 
after the reformation. It was opened a few years ago at 
the expenle of feveral worthy families ; and is a large room, 
plainly but decently fitted for the purpofe: it was once a 
diflenters’ meeting, then an auction-room, and now a con- 
fecrated place for the performance of the Roman-catholic 
liturgy. Two priefts are attached to the fervice of the 
chapel; and it is generally crowded. Thus, by degrees, 
the blefling of toleration fpreads itftlf around, and drops 
every-where the feeds of “ peace and good-will towards 
men, for the glory of God in the higheft.” 
Farther eaftward is the ftreet called Tower Royal, from 
an ancient building of the fame name.—“This tower,” 
fays Stow, “and great place, was fo called of pertaining 
to the kings of this realme ; hut by whom the fame firft 
was builded, or of what antiquity continued, I have not 
read, more than that in the reign of king Edward I. fe¬ 
cond, fourth, and feventh, yeeres, it was the tenement of 
Simon Beawmes ; alfo that in the 36th of Edward III. 
the fame was called the Royall in the parifli of St. Mi¬ 
chael de Pater-nolter ; and that, in the three-and-fortieth 
of his reigne, he gave it, by the name of his Inne called the 
Royall, in the citie of London, in value twenty pounds by 
yeere, unto his Colledge of St. Stephen at Weftminfter. 
Notwithftanding, in the reign of Richard II. it w'as called 
the Queen’s Wardrobe,as apprareth by this that followeth : 
King Richard, having in Sniithfeld overcome and elijperfed the 
rebels, bee, his lords, and all his company, entered the city of 
London with great joy, and went to the lady princef'e his mo¬ 
ther, who was then lodged in the Tower 'Royall, called the 
(Tueene's Wardrobe, where fie had remained three claycs and two 
nights, right fore abafied : but, when fie Jaw the king her fonne , 
fie was greatly rejoiced, and Jaid ; Hal Jonne, what great for- 
row have I fuffered for you this day l The king anj'wercd and 
Jaid ; Certainly, madam, 1 know it well ; but now rejoice and 
than/te God, for 1 have this day recovered mine heritage and the 
realme of England, which I had neere-hand lof." 
And here the fame Richard II. lodged in 1386, when 
his royal gueft Leon III. king of Armenia, or, as Holin- 
fiied calls him, Lyon king of Antony, who had been ex¬ 
pelled his kingdom by the Turks, took reiuge in Eng¬ 
land. Richard treated this unfortunate prince with the 
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