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{killed in the laws, and much trufted by Edward III. and 
who was Tent by him, in 134-3, (more than a hundred and 
twenty years before Jane Shore was heard of,) to pope 
Clement VI. with remonflrate with this holinefs againfl his 
claim of prefenting with Englilh livings, and filling them 
with foreigners, who never refided on their cures, and 
drained the kingdom of its wealth. This, it may be ea- 
fily fuppofed, the pope took much amifs ; infomuch that 
fir John thought it befl to make a fpeedy retreat. It ap¬ 
pears likewife that this knight was a very valiant man, 
and ferved the king with his fword as well as his tongue. 
Long after, Shoreditch acquired much fame from an¬ 
other great man, Barlo, an inhabitant of this place, and a 
citizen ; who acquired fuch honour as an archer, by his 
fuccefs in a fhooting-match at Windfor, before Henry VIII. 
that the king named him on the fpot Duke of Shoreditch. 
For a long feries of years after this, the captain of the Lon¬ 
don archers retained the title. On the 17th of September, 
*583, the Duke (at the expenfe of the city) had a magnifi¬ 
cent trial of fkill ; he fent a fumnions to all his officers, and 
chief nobility, with all their train of archery, in and about 
London, to be ready to accompany him to Smithfield. In 
obedience, appeared the Marquis of Barlo, and the Mar¬ 
quis of Clerkenwell, with hunters who wound their horns; 
the Marquifes of Iflington, Hogfden, Pankridge, and Shac- 
klewell, wffio marched with all their train fantaltically ha¬ 
bited. Nearly a thoufand had gold chains; and all were 
gorgeoufiy attired. The fum of archers were three thou¬ 
fand ; their guards, with bills, four thoufand ; befides pages 
and henchmen. And the duke falliedouttomeet them front 
Merchant-Taylors’Hall, to exhibit fiich a fight as was ne¬ 
ver feen before, nor ever will again ; unlefs a combination 
of the modern focieties of archers ffiould treat the capital 
with the revival of this ancient and worthy pageantry. 
The church off St. Leonard, Shoreditch, is at our left, 
where the road branches off eaflward to Hackney. This 
church has an afcent by a double flight of plain fteps, 
which lead to a portico of the angular kind, fupported by 
four Doric columns, and bearing an angular pediment. 
The body of the edifice is plain, but well lighted; and the 
ffeeple light, elegant, and lofty. The tower at a proper 
height has a feries of Ionic columns; and on their enta¬ 
blature are fcrolls which fupport as many Corinthian co¬ 
lumns on pedeflals; and above is a dome, from whofe 
crown rifes a feries of columns of the Compofite order, on 
the entablature of which refts the fpire, Handing upon 
four balls, which give it an additional air of lightnefs; 
and on the top is a ball and vane. In the lowed flage of 
the tower is a dial, the view of which is fo much inter¬ 
cepted by the apex of the pediment over the portico, that 
a perfon Handing in front of the church can only diflin- 
guiffi the upper part of it; which gave occafion to the fol¬ 
lowing palquinade, which was affixed to the welt front, 
Icon after the building was completed : 
To look alkew upon a church, by fome is deem’d a crime; 
But all tnuH do’t at Shoreditch-church, all who would 
know the time; 
The figures on the dial-plate, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 
Being hid behind the pediment, if you look at it flraight. 
The brains lure of the architeft mud in confulion been. 
When he five figures of the twelve prevented being feen.” 
To the eaH of this church is Bethnal Green, which is 
particularly inhabited by filk weavers, the defcendants of 
the French refugees at the revocation of the edift of 
Nantes. It was one of the hamlets belonging to the mo¬ 
ther church of Stibunhithe, now Stepney; and was fepa- 
rated by act of parliament, in the thirteenth year of his 
late majefly. The church, w hich is dedicated to St. Mat¬ 
thew, was erefted in the year 1740. It is a neat commo¬ 
dious edifice, of red brick, coped and quoined with free- 
Hor.e. At the welt-end is a low fquare tower, built of the 
fame materials, and with a large vafe of Hone at each cor¬ 
ner. It is a reftory, in the gift of the principal and fcho- 
lars of KingVhall and Brazen-nofe-college, Oxford. 
DON. 
The old manfion, at the fouth-eaft corner of the Green, 
now called Bethnal-green Houfe, and traditionally re¬ 
ported to have been the refidence of the celebrated Blind 
Beggar, was built in the reign of queen Elizabeth, by a 
citizen of London named Kirby, and is called, in the 
writings belonging to it, Kirby Caftle. It has long been 
appropriated to the reception of infane perfons. 
The old Roman way, from London, led through the 
hamlet; and being joined, at a fiiort diflance the north- 
eaH of it, by the military way from the weH, they paffed 
on together, to the trajeftus, or ferry, of the River Lea, 
at Old Ford. 
Spitalfields w'as alfo originally a hamlet belonging to the 
pariffi of St. DunHan, Stepney; but, from the great in- 
creafe of inhabitants, it was in the year 1723 made a dif- 
tinft pariffi ; and the church is one of the fifty ordered to 
be built by aft of parliament. This building is lituated 
on the fouth fide of Church-Hreet; it was begun in 1723, 
and finiffied in 1729; and, from being dedicated to our 
Saviour, is called Chrifl-church, Middlefex. It is a 
very handfome edifice, built of Hone, with a very high 
Heeple, in which is a fine ring of bells. The body of the 
church is folid and well-proportioned : it is a hundred 
and eleven feet in length, and eighty-feven in breadth ; 
the height of the roof is forty-one feet, and that of the 
Heeple two hundred and thirty-four. It is ornamented 
with a Doric portico, to which there is a handfome afcent 
by a flight of Heps; and upon thefe the Doric order 
arifes, fupported on pedeflals. The tower, over thefe, 
rifes with arched windows and niches, and, on its dimi- 
niffiing for the Heeple, is fupported by the heads of the 
under corners, which form a kind of buttrclfes; from this 
part rifes the bafe of the fpire, with an arcade ; its corners 
are, in the fame manner, fupported with a kind of pyra¬ 
midal buttreffes, ending in a point; and the fpire, in which 
are three feries of fquare windows, crowned with pediments, 
is terminated by a vafe and vane. This church is made 
a reftory, but is not to be held in commendam ; and the pa¬ 
tronage, like that of its mother-church, is in the princi¬ 
pal and fcholars of King’s-hall and Brazen-nofe-college, 
Oxford.-—At the wefl end of the church is a neat brick, 
building, in which are two charity-fchools; the one for 
boys, the other for girls, erefted in 1782, and fupported 
by voluntary contributions. 
At a very Hiort diflance is Spitalfields market, for the 
fale of all forts of provifions, particularly vegetables ; but it 
certainly is not the cleanefl-looking market in the world. 
In Brick-lane, we find the lign of “ the Turkiffi Slave,” a 
fad momento of the following faft.—The Infpeftor, priva¬ 
teer, with a crew of 183 people, failed from the Downs iii 
Oftober 1745, on a cruife. When they had got as far as 
the Straits of Gibraltar, the ffiip fprung a leak, which their 
utmofl endeavours were infufficient to keep under; and, 
as they found that the ffiip would inevitably fink, they 
determined, for the prefervation of their lives, to run her 
aground in Tangier Bay ; and, as the emperor of Morocco 
was at that time under a treaty of peace with Great Bri¬ 
tain, they had every reafon to expeft friendly treatment 
from the Moors; but they foon found the difference; for 
they were ftripped of every rag they had about them, 
and thofe who made the leafl reliflance were inhumanly 
murdered, or driven back into the fea; thofe who were 
fortunate enough to efcape with their lives were feized as 
Haves. Ninety-fix of the ftip’s company had periffied. 
The Phoenix frigate arriving foon after from Gibraltar 
with the Britiffi conful, the furvivors were in hopes, 
through his interference, to get liberated ; but all his en¬ 
deavours proving abortive, they contrived, with him and 
the captain of the Phoenix, a plan of efcape, by feparating 
into three diflinft parties; one of which, con fi fling of twenty- 
feven men, was fo fortunate as to reach the ffiip; but the 
other two were intercepted, and forced into a diffnal dun¬ 
geon, where they remained three days without food ; and, 
after a fucceffion of cruelties and toils poflible only for 
barbarians to invent, and being marched from place to 
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