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lane is a new building called the AuElion Mart, The front 
is hand fomc; and the infide adorned with a curious dou¬ 
ble ftaircafe, leading to the apartments above the hall, but 
fo very (lender and tteep, that ladies have often expreffed 
their dread of falling, when they were really actuated by the 
snodeft fear of (bowing their garters. The apartments on 
the different floors are let to brokers, underwriters, auc¬ 
tioneers, and other falamanders living in the heat of fpe- 
culation and trade. A coffee-houfe annexed to it, and 
elegantly built, adds confiderable comfort to the mart j 
ynd to the frequenters of the tales. 
Returning by Cateaton-ftreet, we find Bafinghall-ftreet, 
in the ward of Bafliftiaw.—This ftreet derives its name 
from the manfion-houfe of the family of the Bafings, fe- 
veral of whom ferved the chief offices in the city in the 
33th and 14-th centuries. It was originally called Bafing’s 
haw, or hall; but, defending to Mr. Thomas Bakewell, 
it changed its name to Bakewell’s hall. It afterwards fell 
to the crown, and, in the year 1397, was fold by Richard 
II. with its gardens and appurtenances, to the mayor and 
commonalty of London, for fifty pounds; fince which, it 
lias been corruptedly called Blackwell-hall, and ufed as a 
weekly market for woollen cloths. The old hall had be¬ 
come fo ruinous, that in 1658 it was pulled down, and 
rebuilt, at an expenfe of two thoufand five hundred pounds; 
the principal part of which was defrayed by Richard May, 
of the Merchant-Tailors’ company. This building be¬ 
ing deftroyed by the fire in 1666, the prefent flrudture was 
ere (fled in 1672. It is a fquare building, with two courts 
in the middle, furrounded with warehoufes; and has two 
fpacious entrances for carriages; one from Bafinghall-flxeet, 
and the other from Guildhall-yard, where is the principal 
front, and a door-cafe, adorned with two columns of the 
Doric order, with their entablature, and a pediment, in 
which are the king’s arms, and a little lower the city arms, 
enriched with cupids, See. There is alfo an entrance to it 
from Cateaton-flreet. Within thefe buildings are different 
■apartments, or warehoufes,called the Devonfhire, the Glou- 
cefterftiire, the Worcefterfliire, the Kentilh, the Medley, the 
Spanilh, and the Blanket, halls; in which each piece of cloth 
pays a penny for pitching, and a halfpenny per week for 
jelting. The profits are applied towards the fupport of 
Chrilt's Hofpital; the governors of which have the foie 
management of the warehoufes. This market may belaid 
to be the greateff woollen-cloth market in the world ; and 
therefore it has always been the particular care of the city 
of London to keep it under the belt regulations; for, lo 
early as the aid of Richard II. it was ordained, that no 
mannerof perfon fliould fell any woollen cloths, except they 
■were firft brought,harboured,and difcharged,at the common 
market of Blackwell-hall, upon pain of forfeiture thereof. 
And that ordinance was confirmed by an aft of common- 
council, held on the iff of Auguft, 8 Henry VIII. with 
this addition, that no manner of perfon, being a freeman 
of this city, fuller any manner of perfon whatfoever, be 
he free or foreign, to buy or fell any manner of woollen 
cloths, harboured or lodged, contrary to the faid ordinance, 
within his fliop, chamber, or other piace within his ltoufe; 
unlefs the faid cloths were firft brought to Blackwell-hall, 
and there bought and fold, under the penalty of fix (hil¬ 
lings and eightpence for every broad cloth, three (hillings 
and fourpence for every kerfey, and twenty pence for 
every Bridgewater and other pieces of cloth: double for 
a fecond offence, and disfranchifement for a third. 
On the weft fide of Bafinghall-ftreet is Coopers’ Hall ; 
a (lately well-built edifice of brick. The hall is a hand- 
J'orne room, wainfeoted to the height of fourteen feet, and 
paved with marble. Of late years this hall has been ufed 
for the drawing of the lottery, which, for many years 
preceding had been drawn at Guildhall. 
This (mall ward contains only one church, called St. 
Michael Baflifnaw. It is a reftory, and was originally 
founded about the year 114.0*; at which time it was in 
the gift of the prior and canons of St. Bartholomew, Smith- 
field. In die 15th century it fell to the dean and chap- 
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ter of St. Paul’s, who, from that time, have continued pa^ 
trons thereof. The old church, which was very beauti¬ 
ful, was entirely deftroyed by the fire of London ; and 
the prefent ftrutture was completed in 1679. The walls 
are of brick, ftrengtliened with ruftic-wo;k at the cor¬ 
ners; and the body is well lighted by a (ingle feries of 
large windows. At the eaft end, where the top is termi¬ 
nated by an arch, the light is given by three windows ; 
one of them upright, the other two circular. The fteeple 
confifts of a (tone tower, crowned with a turret, from 
which rifes a kind of fpire. The length of this church is 
feventy feet, the breadth fifty, the height of the roof forty- 
two, and that of the tower feventy-five. 
The other public buildings in this ward, are, three of 
the companies’ halls ; viz. On the eaft fide of Bafinghall- 
ftreet, Mafons’Hall,a (mail but very convenient frone build¬ 
ing, in Maibns’ Alley. Weavers’ Hall, which is a hand- 
fome building, neatly adorned in the infide with hang¬ 
ings, fret-work, and a (kreen of the Ionic order. Gir- 
dlers’ Hall ; a handfomeand convenient building, finifiied 
in 1681, well wainfeoted within, and with a (kreen of the 
Compofite order. 
On the weft is the place or ftreet called Aldermanbury, 
already noticed as having contained the firft bury, or hall, 
Vvhere the aldermen ufed to meet.— On the weft fide of 
this ftreet, between Love-lane and Addle-ftreet, (lands 
the parifti-churcli of St. Mary, Aldermanbury, which is 
of ancient foundation. The patronage was formerly in 
the dean and chapter of St. Paul’s, who, in the year 1331, 
with the confent of Stephen bi(hop of London, appropri¬ 
ated it to the adjoining hofpital of Ellir.g Spital; but 
with a provilo, that the dean and chapter fliould have 
the patronage of both, and that, upon the appointment 
of a cuftos to this church and hofpital, he was to fwear 
fealty to the dean and chapter, and to pay them an an¬ 
cient penfion of a mark a-year, due from this church, and 
fix (hillings and eight pence yearly, for the hofpital, as 
granted by the founder, William de Elfing, in telliinony 
of its fubjeftion to the church of St. Paul. It was alfo 
agreed that the cuftos fliould find a pried to ferve the 
cure, who was to be approved by the dean and chapter. 
Hence it appears, that this church was at that time a cu¬ 
racy, as it llill continues; but, after the difiolution of the 
hofpital, the patronage was granted to the parifliioners, 
who have ever fince prefented to it. The old church be¬ 
ing deftroyed by the dreadful fire in 1666, the prefent 
(trublure was finifiied ten years after. It is built of (tone, 
and very plain ; the body is well lighted, and the coi¬ 
ners are wrought with rultic. It is leventy-two feet long, 
and forty-five broad ; the roof is thirty-eight feet high, 
and the lleeple about ninety. It has a plain folid tower, 
conftrudled in the lame manner as the body, the angles 
in the upper llage being ftrengtliened with ruftic ; the 
cornice is fupported by lcrolls, and above it is a plain at¬ 
tic courfe. In this rifes a turret, with a fquare bafe that 
fupports the dial. This turret is arched ; but the corners 
are mafiy, and its roof is terminated in a point, on which 
is placed the vane. Over the altar is a very old picture 
reprefenting the Lord’s Supper, which at firft fight ap¬ 
pears to have been painted by fome artift of the fchool of 
Titian. 
To our readers, and particularly to that clafs which is 
fond of the marvellous in matters of antiquity, we muff 
prefent the following quotation from Stow.—In the cloif- 
t.er adjoining the church of St. Mary Aldermanbury “is 
hanged and fattened a (hanke-bone of a man (as is faid), 
very great, and larger by three inches and a halfe than 
that which hangeth in St. Lawrence church in thejurie— 
for it is in length a§ inches and a halfe-of afiife; but not 
fo hard and ffeely, like as the other ; for the fame is light, 
and fomewhat pory and fpongy. This bone is faid to bee 
found amongft the bones of men removed from the char* 
nel-hou(e of Paul’s, or rather from the cloifter of Paul’s 
church; of both which reports, I doubt.”—-However, the 
curious hiftorian adds, “ true it is that this bone, from 
