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twining round his head ; intimating, that the exadl go¬ 
vernment of this city, not only preferves herfelf, but re¬ 
torts juft punifliment on fuch as envy her happy condi¬ 
tion. In the group farther to the right, the chief figure 
r^prefents an ancient river-god, his head crowned with 
flags and rufhes, his beard long, a rudder in his right 
hand, and his left arm leaning on an urn, which pours 
forth a copious ftream; the fwan at his feet, (hows this 
to be the Thames; the (hip behind, and the anchor and 
cable below, him, very emphatically exprefs the mighty 
tribute of riches paid by the commerce of this river to the 
city to which it belongs. On the left hand there appears 
the figure of a beautiful woman, in an humble polture, 
prel'enting an ornament of pearls with one hand, and pour¬ 
ing out a mixed variety of riches from a cornucopia, or 
■ horn of plenty, with the other; fignifying the abundance 
which flows from the union of domeltic induftry and fo¬ 
reign trade. Behind her is a ftork, and two naked boys, 
playing with each other, and holding the neck of the ftork ; 
to fignify that piety, brotherly love, and mutual affeffion, 
produce and fecure that vaft ftock of wealth, of various 
kinds, which appears near them in bales, bags, and hogf- 
keads, So that every thing in this piece is not barely 
beautiful and ornamental, but, at the fame time, inftruc- 
tively expreffive of the happy condition of that great city, 
for the relidence of whole chief magiftrate this noble build¬ 
ing was eredfed. Beneath this portico are two feries of 
windows, which extend along the whole front; and above 
thel'eisan attic flory with fquare windows, crowned with 
a baluftrade.—The building is much deeper than it is 
■wide; it has an area in the middle, and at the fartheft end 
is an Egyptian hall, which is the length of the front, very 
lofty, and defigned for public entertainments. Near the 
ends at each fide is a window of extraordinary height, 
placed between coupled Corinthian pilafters, and ex¬ 
tending to the top of the attic ftory. The infide apart¬ 
ments and offices are exceedingly noble, and elegantly fur- 
nifhed. On the weft fide of the building is a commodious 
door for the admittance of private company; and on the 
oft fide is the entrance to the juftice-room, where the 
Jord-tnayor in perfon fits every day. 
The greateft inconvenience which attends this edifice 
arifes from its being i'o crowded with houfes, efpecially on 
the fides, that the rooms are dark; and even in the front 
there is r.ot a fufficient area to enlighten the building. 
Notvvithftanding this iinperfedlion, it is certainly a very 
noble ftruciure, and well calculated for the difcharge of 
that bufinefs, and the dignity of that magiftrate, for whom 
it was eredled. The whole expenfe of building the man¬ 
fion-houfe (including the fum of three thoufand nine 
hundred pounds, paid for purchaling houfes to be pulled 
down) amounted to 41,638k 18s. 8d. 
Stocks Market, on the fite of which the manfion-houfe 
was eredled, was built in the year 1282, by Henry Wallis, 
the mayor, on a void fpace to the north of St. Mary Wool- 
church, where formerly had ftood a pair of flocks for the 
punifliment of offenders; and the rents of the houfes were 
appropriated to the maintenance of London-bridge. In 
the year 1322, it was ordained that none fliould fell fifh 
or fie Cl out of this and the other markets, upon pain of 
forfeiting the articles expofed to fale for the firft offence, 
and of lofing their freedom for the fecond. In this mar¬ 
ket ftood the famous equeftrian llatue, fet up in honour 
of Charles II. by fir Robert Vyner, lord-mayor in 1675. 
Elis lordfbip, in his halte to exhibit this teftimony of his 
loyalty, found a llatue of John Sobiefki, king of Poland, 
trampling on a Turk, ready caft at a founder’s; and, dis¬ 
regarding the incongruity of tlie ccdtume, he chriftened 
the Pole by the name of Charles II. and the proftrate 
Turk by that'of Oliver Cromwell ; and thus new named 
it arofe on this fpot, in honour of his fovereign.—Encou¬ 
raged and infpired by an example fo authoritative, the 
landlord of the George and Dragon alehoule prefently 
cauled his figti to undergo a fimilar transformation ; St. 
DON. 
Geprge had his helmet altered into a w ig, and the dragoa 
beneath was metamorphofed into a proftrate Oliver Crom¬ 
well ! 
The view from the bottom of the Poultry, a little be¬ 
low Sf. Mildred’s church, is perhaps not to be matched 
by any in the world. It has a mofl elegant and even 
magnificent appearance.—You have on your right the 
lofty building of the Manfion-houfe. T owards the fouth- 
eaft, the opening into Lombard-ftreet, over which you 
catch a glimpfe at feveral towers and fpires. Then before 
you, and full eaft, you find Cornhill, displaying the front 
of the Royal Exchange and feveral other hanciiome build¬ 
ings, crowned alfo with the fight of many towers and ftee- 
ples. To your left, drawing toward the north-eaft, is a 
large opening, prefenting a fide-view of the Bank, and of 
the elegant and lofty edifices built oppofite to, and as an 
ornament for, it. In the back ground rifes the Tower of 
St. Bartholomew's church, with wliimfical arches on the 
top, which, though they do not belong properly to any 
fort of pure or correct order, have a fingular effedl when 
feen at a proper diftance. See Plate VII/. where this tower 
is feen in the diftant back ground of the lower part of the 
engraving. 
This church (lands at the fouth-weft corner of Bartho- 
lomew-lane, and is of very ancient date.—The old church 
was burnt in 1666, after which the prefent building was 
erected. It confifts of a very irregular body, with a tower 
crowned with arches, fupported by columns of the Co¬ 
rinthian order. The living, at the time of the reforma¬ 
tion, being in the gift of the abbey of St. Mary of Grace, 
it fell, with the dilfolution of that religious houfe, to the 
crown, and fo has continued to the prefent time. 
Very near this, and a little on the fouth-eaft in Threarl- 
needle-ftreef, we find the parifh-church of St. Bennet 
Fink.—It is fo called from its dedication to St. Benedidl, 
an Italian faint, and founder of the order of Benedidline 
monks; and it received the additional name of Fink, from 
one Robert Fink, who rebuilt it. It is of ancient foun¬ 
dation ; and, though at prefent only a curacy, yet was ori¬ 
ginally a redlory, John de Branketree being redtor thereof 
before the year 1323. The patronage of this church, 
which was formerly in the family of the Nevils, falling to 
the crown, Edward IV, gave it to the dean and chapter 
of Windfor; and, the impropriation being-in the faid 
dean and chapter, it is fupplied by one of the canons, 
who is licenf'ed by the bifliop of London. The old church 
being deftroyed by fire in 1666, the prefent building was 
eredled in 1673. The body is of an elliptical form, light¬ 
ed by large arched windows, which reach to the roof. 
This is encompafi'ed with a baluftrade, and crowned with 
a lantern ; a dome rifes upon the whole extent of the 
tower, and on its top is a turret. The church-yard was 
given to the pariftiioners as a free burial-place, without 
any expenfe. 
Returning along Thread needle-ftreet, we find near the 
fouth-weft corner, on the eaft of Broad-ftreet, the Walloon 
or French Proteftant church on our left. It is nearly op- 
polite to Finch-lane, which we fuppofe to have been ori¬ 
ginally Fink-lane, in.unifon and according to the church 
juft mentioned. It (lands upon the fite of a chapel an¬ 
nexed to the hofpital of St. Anthony. Divine fervice is 
performed here, in the French tongue, after the manner 
of the church of England. The old building being en¬ 
tirely deftroyed by the fire of London, the prefent church 
w-as erecled at the foie expenfe of the French proteftants. 
It is a fmall but neat place of vvorfliip, with a convenient 
veltry at the fouth-eaft corner. 
The hofpital of St. Anthony was a cell to the priory of 
St. Anthony of Vienna, and the building was originally a 
lynagogue, which was granted by Henry III. in the year 
1231, to the monks of this fraternity. About the year 
1338, they eredled a free-fehool, on a piece of garden- 
ground/that was given to them, on the north-fide of the 
hofpital, which, in a fliort time flourifhed fo much, as to 
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