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place under a broiling fun, without (hoes or clothing, for 
the fpace of four years, they were at length ranfomed for 
a turn of 4399b including preferits to the emperor, by the 
liberality of the king, George II. and arrived at Portf- 
mouth in May 1749, only twenty-five perfons in all, the 
reft having died, through difeafe and cruelties, in f ez. 
On their return, they had a benefit at Covent-garden the¬ 
atre, and likewife one at Sadler’s Wells. The houle in 
Brick-lane was taken by one of the lurvivors, (Peter Le- 
beau ;) but the fign is merely analogous. 
This part of the town, which is not one of the molt/w- 
Ute, may however boaft of having given birth to a man 
whofe abilities in the art of Tinging have long delighted, 
and we hope will long continue to delight, the molt polite 
claffes—Braham was born of Jewifli parents in Rofe-lane, 
or thereabouts, in Spitalfields.—Here was anciently.a Ro¬ 
man burying-place, of which many curious paiticulais 
are mentioned by Stow; and Camden gives a brief account 
of another, difcovered in Goodman’s fields. Among the 
antiquities found in Spitalfields, was a great offuary made 
of o'lafs, encompaffed with five parallel circles, and con¬ 
taining a gallon and a half; it had a handle, a very (hort 
neck, and wide mouth of a white metal. T. his was pre¬ 
ferred to fir Chriftopher Wren, who lodged it in the mu- 
feum of the Royal Society. Thefe cemeteries will in fome 
cafes determine the ancient Roman precinfts of the city ; 
it being a wife and exprefs law of the XII Tables, that 
no one fhould be buried within the walls. 
In the neighbourhood of Kingfland-road and Hoxton, 
are many alms-houfes, erefted at different periods, ftanding 
proofs of the humane and liberal inclinations of our an- 
ceftors.—A defcription, in architectural and correft ftyle, 
of an aneient manfion at Hoxton, will give an idea of the 
manner of erecting gentlemen’s houfes in the beginning 
of the feventeenth century, and may be applied to others 
which we (hall have occafion to mention—it was the refi- 
dence of fir George Whitmore, mayor of London, 1631; 
and was furveyed in May 1814. The northern portions 
of the building appear to have been erected in the ftyle of 
Elizabeth’s reign; by fome internal embellifhments, a fit¬ 
ting-up was gone through in Charles I’s reign ; in thefouth 
front the features take the mode above hinted; as an ex¬ 
ample of alterations undertaken foon after 1683, a time 
in which Hoxton itfelf began to increafe in buildings. 
South front, (general plan of the manfion upon a fquare,) 
or principal entrance: five divifions, made by double do- 
ric pilafters: three ftories, in bafement, parlour, and chief 
floor. The pilafters ftand on plain pedeftals; detached 
pieces of architrave rife on each capital, fupporting plain 
double fcroll blocks, breaking into the general line of cor¬ 
nice. In the centre divifion, flight of fteps to the door 
of entrance, (door modernifed,) windows for each ftory. 
On the general cornice, an amazing high dripping eaves- 
roof, with two ftories of dormer-windows, ftanding regu¬ 
larly over the windows below : clufters of chimneys in 
breaks. The walls are brick, plinths and capitals ltone, 
cornice wood. The hall has been of late partitioned into a 
paflage, centrical and adjoining rooms ; the grand ftaircafe 
remains in part, which in the divifions of its fence has a 
fucceflion of guideron-work, with feftoons of fruit and 
flowers; windows and doors with the plain architrave de¬ 
void of mouldings; but the chimney-pieces are modern¬ 
ized. One of the cielings elaborate flucco, of compart¬ 
ments, in fquare, oblong, and octangular,'forms ; the di¬ 
viding bands full of minute and delicate foliages. The 
fouth front appears copied from the wings of the grand 
front of the Chateau de Rincy, in France. 
South of Shored itch-church is the fmall liberty, or ma¬ 
nor, of Norton Falgate, which belonged to the cathedral 
of St. Paul as early as the conqueft. This diftrift being 
extra-parochial, the inhabitants maintain their own poor, 
and marry and bury where they pleafe; but they gene¬ 
rally make ufe of a chapel, built by fir George Wheeler, 
prebendary of Durham, for his tenants in Spitalfields. In 
this liberty there are alfo a fmall workhoufe, a girl’s fchool, 
and a free fchool for boys. 
In Holy well-lane, in the parifii of St. Leonard, anci¬ 
ently Hood the priory of St. John Baptift, of Benediftine 
nuns, founded by Robert, the foq of Gelranni, preben¬ 
dary of Haliwell, and confirmed by a charter of Richard 
I. in the year 1189. This priory, after many reparations, 
was re-edified by fir Thomas Lovel, in the reign of Henry 
VII. who, after having given confiderable benefactions to 
the fame, was interred here, in a chapel erected at his own. 
expenfe ; and, in commemoration of fo great a benefaCtor, 
the following lines were painted on molt of the windows: 
All the nunnes in Holy-well, 
Pray for the foul of fir Thomas Lovel. 
At the general fuppreflion of religious houfes, this mo- 
naftery was furrendered to Henry VIII. in the year j 539 ; 
at which time its revenues amounted to 347I. is. 3d. per 
annum. The ruins of this priory, which are ftill to he 
feen in King-Jobn’s-court, have been conceived by fome 
to be the remains of king John’s palace; though it does 
not appear that a royal manfion was ever fituated in this 
neighbourhood. 
The prebend of Haliwell, and Finfbury, took its firlt 
name from a fpring, or well, which was fo famed for mi¬ 
raculous virtues as to be dignified with the epithet of holy. 
After the reformation, thefe qualities vaniftied ; and the 
holy-well, being negleCIed, waschoaked up with rubbifh, 
and,in the calamitous year i665,thefpotbecameacemetery 
for the victims to the plague; whofe bodies being heaped 
together, and covered with earth, gave rife to a mount, 
called Holywell Mount, which was levelled about the year 
1777, and the fite covered with ltreets; in one of which 
is a diflenting meeting-houfe, and a burial-ground. 
We muft not quit this parifh without noticing, that the 
brewing of porter commenced in it, according to the fol¬ 
lowing lines of Gutteridge, a native of Shoreditch : 
Harwood, my townfman, he invented firft. 
Porter, to rival wine, and quench the thirft : 
Porter, which fpreads its fame half the world o’er, 
Whofe reputation rifes more and more. 
As long as porter (hall preferve its fame, 
Let all with gratitude our parifh name. 
We fhould not conclude from this, that beer was not 
drunk before that time in London ; the meaning obvi- 
oufly is, that Gutteridge added ftrength to the common 
liquors made out of hops and malt; the name of Porter 
feems to originate from its being a favourite drink with 
porters and men of hard labour, who find in it an inex- 
hauftible fupply of vigour and comfort; fome coal-heavers 
are known to drink daily more than ten quarts of that 
heavy potation. 
On the weft of Shoreditch, we find, in our return to¬ 
wards the city, the parifh of St. Luke, Middlefex, the 
church of which owes its rife to the increafe of buildings 
in the parifh of St. Giles, Cripplegate; for, notwithftand- 
ing there being a chapel of eafe, and feveral meeting-houfes, 
the parifh-church could not contain half the inhabitants 
who were defirous of aflembling there to attend divine 
worfhip. The commiflioners for erecting the fifty new 
churches, taking this into confideration, purchafed a piece 
of ground in this parifh, and erefted one of thofe churches 
upon it; after which, the inhabitants, applying to parlia¬ 
ment, had the Middlefex-liberty of St. Giles’s appointed 
for the parifh ; and, by the fame aft, 3500I. was granted 
to be laid out in fee-fimple for the fupport of a reftor; 
befides the profits of w'hich, the church-wardens were to 
pay him annually 12.0I. to be raifed by burial-fees. The 
church was finifhed in 1731, and was confecrated the next 
year on St. Luke’s day, when the name of that faint was 
given as its patron. Though the building is convenient 
and well lighted with two rows of windows, it is a very 
Angular ftrufture. In the centre of the weft front i§ the 
entrance, adorned with coupled Doric pilafters; and to 
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