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therefore that the London clergy adopted this feal as hav¬ 
ing belonged to the ancient hoipital, or at lead as having 
a very natural and fcriptural allufion to that eftablilhrnent. 
We have known feveral infta-nces wherein colleges elta- 
blifhed upon the fite and out of the revenues of hoipitals 
have kept mod refpeftfully the feal, and even the name, 
of the former edablifhment.—The library was repaired, at 
the expenfe of the college, in the year i8co; and a neat 
3 nd clalfical infcription, in order to record it, is engraved 
on a done on the wed fide of the gateway. It runs thus: 
Hare Bibliotheca fronte cum tcBo vetvjlate pene collapjis fumptibus 
Collegii injlaurata ejl. A.D. MDCCC. Joh. Moore LL.D. 
prselide. 
The alms-houfes are built under the library on the wed 
fide of the fquare, ten within the college for the men, and 
ten without it for the women. In dividing the men’s 
houfes from thofe of the women, the wife and religious 
founder was following the ancient cudom ; which, not- 
withdanding all that romancers and poets fing- orfay, was 
conftar.tly to feparate the two fexes, in theirbenevolent eda- 
blifhments ; led bufy malignity and prying calumny ftiould 
give out for truth what might only have an appearance 
of poflibility. The fame attention was bedowed in all re¬ 
ligious foundations; and we no-where find, but in the works 
of calumniators, that our ancedors were ever fo wicked 
cr fo foolilh as to fuffer monks and nuns to fhare the fame 
habitation. When facrilegious fornication was committed, 
the guilt was not particularly invited by opportunity, but 
the fences of the nunnery mud have clandedinely yielded 
to an unlawful claim or fpecious pretence for admittance. 
Four of thefe alms-people are nominated by the city of 
Bridol, where Dr. White was born ; eight by the Mer- 
chant-Taylors’ Company; fix by the paridi of St. Dun- 
itan, where he was minider forty-nine, years ; and two 
by St. Gregory’s parifh, where he had lived about twenty 
years. 
Wedward from Sion College, and beyond Philip-lane, 
is Curriers’-court, at the upper end of which is a neat 
convenient hall belonging to the company of Curriers, 
•whole arms are over the entrance of the court. 
Palling through Cripplegate Buildings, the place where 
the old gate (fee p. 105.) anciently dood, we again enter 
Fore-dreet, fo called becaufe it was before the wall; and 
on our left we find the church St. Giles, Cripplegate, 
which has been lately repaired, as appears by an infcrip¬ 
tion placed on the fide of the watch-houfe, intimating that 
the watch and quell houfe, with the large building be¬ 
tween the two doors of the church, were eredted in 1811. 
This church is fo called from being dedicated to a faint 
of that name, born at Athens, who was abbot of Nifmes, 
in France. It was founded about the year 1090, by Al- 
fune, the fird maderof St. Bartholomew’s Hofpital. The 
old church was dedroyed by fire in the year 154.5; after 
•which the prefent ftruflure was erected, and is one of the 
few that .fortunately efcaped the dreadful conflagration 
in 1666. It may very properly be numbered amongfl 
the bed of our Gothic buildings. It is a hundred and 
fourteen feet in length, fixty-three in breadth, thirty- 
two high to the roof, and a hundred and twenty-two to 
the top of the turret. The body of the church is well 
lighted by two rows of windows, which are truly of the 
gothic order, and the (paces between have buttrefles for 
the fupport of the wall. The tower is well proportioned ; 
the corners of it are fupported by a kind of buttrefs-work, 
and at each corner is a final 1 turret. The principal tur¬ 
ret, in the centre, is light and open ; it is ftrengthened 
by buttrefles, and crowned with a dome, from whence 
rifes the vane. Over the fouth-ead door of the church is 
a beautiful figure of Time, with a feythe in one hand, and 
an hour-glafs in the other. The patronage of this church 
was originally in private hands, till it defeended to one 
Aiemund, a pried, who granted the fame (after his death, 
and that of Hugh, his only fon) to the dean and chapter 
of St. Paul’s, whereby they became not only ordinaries 1 
of the parilh, but likewife patrons of the vicarage, from 
that time to the prelent. There are feveral endowments 
D O N. 
belonging to this church, for the performance of divine fer- 
vice, at different times in the year, particularly fix fermona 
to be preached in Lent, and a gift-fermon on All-Saints’ 
day; when the donations, left by feveral benefactors. to 
be given on that day, are didributed to the poor, at the 
diferetion of the vicar and churchwardens. 
The fite of this parilh was anciently a fen, or moor; 
and the houfes or gardens thereupon were accounted a 
village without the wall of London, called Mora ; which, 
in procefs of time, increafed greatly in number of build¬ 
ings, and was contlituted a prebend of St. Paul’s cathe¬ 
dral, of that appellation. And now this village is totally 
covered by London; and the prebendary of Mora, or 
“Mora without the Wall of London,” has the ninth Hall 
on the right fide of the choir in St. Paul’s cathedral; of 
which, it is faid, Nigellus Medicus was the fird prebenda¬ 
ry. Part of the old wall of the city remains on the louth 
and ead fides of the church-yard, particularly one of the 
baltions, which is dole againd the back part of Barbers* 
Hall. This church has received the remains of feveral 
eminent writers, among whom may be named Speed, the 
celebrated Englilli hidorian and topographer; Fox, the 
martyrologid ; Glover, an indefatigable antiquarian; and 
the immortal Milton, who was buried in the chancel, and 
whole remains were lately difeovered in making fome al¬ 
terations in that part of the church. 
At the fouth-ead angle of Aldermanbury-podern, is a. 
very handfome meeting-houfe, built of brick; and there 
is another, equally handfome, at the corner of Coleman- 
dreet. 
Leaving the northern part of Fore-dreet for another 
walk, we return to St. Paul’s by Wood-dreet, which opens 
a little to the wed of Philip-lane and Curriers’ Hall. The 
communication to this dreet is multifarious, which makes 
it more bufy, more alive. On the wed we pals Hart-ftreet 
and Fell-llreet; on the right we have Addle-ftreet, which 
by a gentle winding, leads to the north fide of St. Mary 
Aldermanbury. Silver-dreet on the right, and Goldfmiths- 
dreet on the fame fide, denote that wealth did always har¬ 
bour in this neighbourhood ; and indeed in ancient times 
this part of the city (though very refpedflable indeed hi 
in our time) was, as to local property in filver, gold, and 
jewels, the mod important fpot in the metropolis. At the 
entrance of the dreet lad-mentioned, at the ead corner 
of the fird houfe, is a good carving of the company’s arms, 
fet in the brick-wall. See Plate VIII.—Then we have 
the curioully-named Huggin-lane, formerly Hugon-lanc , 
on our left; and, nearly oppolite, Lad-lane, corrupted, fays 
Stow, from Ladle-lane. But, having found here, in fpite 
of etymologifls, Lad-lane , on one fide, and Maiden-lane on 
the other, no wonder if we meet with Love-lane, and Lit¬ 
tle Love-lane, and Huggin-lane , all confpiring to imprefs us 
with the idea that Wood-dreet was once a favourite walk 
of the impures, or a place particularly configned to them, 
according to fome of thofe fevere laws by which our an- 
ceftors thought proper to bereave unmarried women guilty 
of fornication of the right of being buried in confecrated 
ground, and had therefore afligned a proper place for their 
unclean remains to red and rot till the day ofjudgment, when 
a milder Judge mud decide between weaknefsand wicked- 
nefs. See Matth.viii. io,n.ix. 13. John viii. u. 
On the ead fide of this dreet is the church of St. Alban, 
Wood-dreet. It is a reftory ; but its origin is involved in 
oblcurity. It is fuppofed to have been founded by Alfred, 
when he redored the city, in 886, after it had been ravaged 
by the Danes. Others, however, imagine, from the church 
being built of the fame materials as a iquare tower remain¬ 
ing at the north corner of Love-lane I’o late as the year 
1632, and which was believed to have been part of king 
Athenian’s palace, that its foundation is to be attributed 
to that monarch. Whichever of thefe opinions be true, 
the original building remained till 1634., when it was taken 
down, and a new church ere£led on the fame fpot; which 
was dedroyed thirty-two years after by the fire of London, 
The prefent church was built upon the fame model as ttye 
former; and is fixty-fix feet in length, fifty-nine in breadth, 
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