LONDON. 
ftand for Guido Comes, “ Earl Guy ;” but, wlien on the other 
fide of the figure we take notice of a coat of arms conlift- 
ing of a bend charged with three mafcles, we are inclined 
to fuppofe that the letters mean George or Guy Carlton or 
Carrington, to which names l'uch arms belong ; and, were 
we allowed to indulge our fancy on the fubject, we would 
fuppofe that thefe were the initials of the pofiefior of the 
houle at the time it was firlt rebuilt, two years after the 
great conflagration ; and that, confounding the ancient 
earl Guy with Richard Nevil, he caufed the faid arms 
and figure to be carved in allufion to the circumltance 
mentioned above. Yet the arms on the fhield are not 
thole of Richard Nevil earl of Warwick, who bore Gules, 
a faltire argent, with a label in chief; but they are lo- 
zer.gy, as the molt ancient arms of the earls of Warwick 
appear on record to have been, with a chevron either fan¬ 
cifully diapte or ermine, as he bore his arms ; with this 
difference, that the field here is lozengy inltead ofchequy. 
However, this deep refearch and heraldic difcuflion may 
have no other foundation than the ignorance of the fculp- 
tor or his employer; and our intention was merely to elu¬ 
cidate a point of hiltory connected with this piece of 
carving, to render our furvey the more interefting by it, 
and to bring the bas relief itfelf into notice; for it is cu¬ 
rious that many of our acquaintance, who have lived for 
years in the neighbourhood, have never noticed this little 
piece of antiquity, though it is now nearly a century and 
a half old. We have made many inquiries about the 
owner of the houle at the probable time of this little fculp- 
ture being put up : the only information we could get 
was, that the houfe has been in the tobacco and fnuff 
trade ever fince the year 1660, as dated over the door of 
Mr. Parry, who now inhabits it, and who is as innocent 
of any antiquarian knowledge as one of his own finuff-jars. 
Exactly oppofite to this ancient fculpture is a public- 
lioufe called the Guy earl of Warwick; and, eroding War- 
wick-lane again, we find at the corner of Warwick-fquare 
the Three Jolly Butchers, a very appropriate fign, as New¬ 
gate Market is contiguous, and holds a i'quare area between 
this lane on the welt, Ivy-lane on the eatt, Paternofler- 
rovv on the fouth, and Newgate-llreet on the north. The 
piece of ground which is occupied by it, meafures 194 
feet from eaft to welt, and 148 from north to fouth, with 
a large market-houfe in the centre. Under the market- 
lioufe are vaults, or cellars; and the upper part of it is 
principally ufed as warehouses for fruiterers and gardeners. 
The fhops within this building are for the fale of tripe, 
butter, eggs, &c. The houfes that extend on each of 
the tides, which form the fquare, are molt of them occu¬ 
pied by butchers ; and the avenues that lead to the mar¬ 
ket, from Paternofter-row and Newgate-ltreet, are occu¬ 
pied by poulterers, fifhmongers, &c. 
Before the fire of London, this market was held in 
Newgate-fireet, (fee p. 416.). where there was a market- 
houfe for meal, and a middle row of fheds, which were af- 
ward converted into houfes, inhabited by butchers, tripe- 
fellers, &c. while the country people, who brought pro¬ 
visions to the city, were forced to ftand with their Halls 
in the open ftreet, where their perfons and goods were ex- 
pofed to danger, from the coaches, carts, and cattle, that 
paffed through the Ifreets. At that time, Butcherhall- 
lane was filled with flaughrer-hoiifes for the ufe of this 
market; and Elowbkdder-ftreet was rendered remarkable 
by blown bladders hanging in the windows of the fhops 
where they were fold. 
On the welt fide of Warwick-lane, near the north end, 
is the College of Phyficians. This is a very noble (trufture 
built with brick and ftone, the entrance to which is through 
a grand octangular porch, crowned with a dome that termi¬ 
nates in a gilt ball, which the witty Garth calls the gilded pills 
Here ftands a dome majeftic to the fight, 
And lumptuous arches bear its oval height; 
A golden globe, plac’d high with artful flyll. 
Seems to the diltarit fight a gilded pill. Difpenfary. 
©n the funnnit of the centre is the bird of /Efcu- 
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lapius, the admonifhing cock.—The inixde was de- 
figned by fir Chriftopher Wren, and is very elegant. 
The central building, which contains the library and 
other rooms of ftate and convenience, was the defign of 
Inigo Jones. The afeent to the door is by a flight of 
Heps; and in the under part is a bafemeut itory. The 
whole front is decorated with pilalters of the Ionic and 
Corinthian orders. The buildings that compole the twef 
lides of the court are uniform, and have the window-cafes 
handfomely ornameiijed. The oruers are well executed, 
and the whole edifice is both beautiful and commodious. 
In the centre of the front, over the door-cafe, is a 
niche containing a ltatue of Charles II. under which 'fa 
the follow ing inlcription : 
Utriufque fortunae exemplar ingens 
Adverbs rebus Drum probavit proiperis feipfum 
Collegii hujulce ltator. 
The ftyle of this is not very Ciceronian, and the fenfe is 
rather intricate. It (ignifies, that “ Charles, the founder 
of this college, had been a great example of the protection 
of God in auverfity, and of moderati n (we l'uppo;e) in 
prol'perity.” It is pity that a few words were not added 
in order t6 convey the meaning more decidedly. But 
there was no fir George Baker in that day to treat the 
college with elegant Latin ; neither is there now, or zoe 
ihould not have preiumed to luggelt the following altera¬ 
tion : “ Utriuique fortunse exemplar ingens, adverbs rebus 
Deum moderatorem, profperis feipfum moderatum, pro¬ 
bavit Collegii hujufce ltator.” 
Oppofite to the ltatue of our merry and profufe mo¬ 
narch is that of a perfon of a character extremely dif¬ 
ferent, the notorious fir John Cutler. It appears, by the 
annals of the college, that in the year 1674 a confidera- 
ble l'um of money had been fubferibed by the fellows, for 
the erection of a new college, the old one having been 
confumed in the great fire, eight years before. It all'o 
appears, that fir John Cutler, a near relation of Dr. Whilt- 
ler, the prefident, was defirous of becoming a benefactor. 
A committee was appointed to wait upon fir John, to 
thank him for his kind intentions. He accepted their 
thanks, renewed his promile, and fpecified the part of the 
building of which lie intended to bear the expenfe. In 
the year 1680, ftatues in honour of the king and lir 
John were voted by the members ; and nine years after¬ 
ward, the college being then completed, ic was relolved 
to borrow money of lir John Cutler, to difeharge the col¬ 
lege-debt ; but the fum is not fpecified. It appears how¬ 
ever,-that, in 1699, fir John’s executors made a demand 
on the college of 7000I. which fum was luppofed to in-* 
elude the money actually lent and the money pretended 
to be given, but fet down as a debt in fir John’s books, 
with the interelt on both. Lord Radnor, however, and 
Mr. Boulter, fir John Cutler’s executors, were prevailed 
upon to accept 2000I. from the college, and actually re¬ 
mitted the other five. So that fir John’s promife*, which 
he never performed, obtained him the (tatue, and the li¬ 
berality of his executors has kept it in its place ever fince, 
But the college have wileiy obliterated the inlcription,. 
which, in the warmth of its gratitude, it had placed be¬ 
neath the figure : Omnis Cutlcri cedat labor Amphitheatre). 
But his arms, elegantly carved in an ancient elcutcheon, 
with mantlings and crelf, are fufr’ered to remain. 
The different apartments belonging to this college, 
confift of a committee-room; a horary furnifhed wjth 
books by fir Theodore Mayerne and the marquis of Dor- 
chefter; a great hall for the quarterly meetings of the 
doftors ; a theatre for anatomical diflections, but never 
uled; a preparing-room, where are thirteen tables, con- 
tainingall the mufeies in the human body : and, overall, 
there are garrets to dry the herbs for the ufe of the dif¬ 
penfary. 
In the hall are the portraits of feveral of the molt emi¬ 
nent of the faculty, among which are thole of lir Theodore 
Mayerne, a native of Geneva, phyfician to James and 
Charles I. the great Sydenham, to whom thoulands owe 
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