409 LONDON. 
their lives, by bis daring attempt of the cool regimen in 
the fmall-pox; Harvey, who firft diicovered the circula¬ 
tion of the blood ; and the learned and pious fir Thomas 
Brown, who faid that the difcovery of that great man’s 
was preferable to the difcovery of the new world.—Sir 
Edmund King, a favourite of Charles II. When that 
monarch was firfl; {truck with the apoplexy, he had the 
courage to relieve his majelty by initant bleeding ; put¬ 
ting the rigour of the law to defiance in cafe of failure of 
fuccefs. A thoufand pounds was ordered as a reward, 
but never paid. He was among the philofophers of his 
time, who made the famous experiment of transfufing the 
blood of one animal into another. The blood of a heal¬ 
thy young fpaniel was conveyed into the veins of an old 
mangy dog, who they fay was perfectly cured in lei's than 
a fortnight. The blood of a young dog was transfufed 
into one almolt blind with age, and which, before, could 
fearcely move : the latter did in two hours leap and frilk; 
snd yet the young dog, which received in return the 
blood of the old or diftempered, felt no fort of injury. 
The fame experiment, when extended to the human fpe- 
cies, has not been fuccefsful.—A very good portrait of 
the anatomift Vefalius, on board, by John Calkar, a painter 
from the duchy of Cleves, who died in 1546. This cele¬ 
brated character had filled the profefTor’s chair at Venice} 
after that, was for fome time phyfician to Charles V. 
Difgufted with the maimers of a court, he determined on a 
voyage to the Holy Land. The republic of Venice lent 
to him to fill the profefforfhip of medicine at Padua, va¬ 
cant by the death of Fallopius. On his return, in 1564, 
he was (hipwrecked on the ifle of Zante, where he perilhed 
by hunger.—Dr. Goodal, the Stentor of Garth’s Difpen- 
fary.—Dr. Millington, whom the witty author compli¬ 
ments with the following lines: 
Machaon, whole experience we adore. 
Great as your matclilefs merit is your power : 
At your approach the baffled tyrant Death 
Breaks his keen fhafts, and grinds his claffling teetli. 
The portrait of Dr. Freind, the hiftorian of phyfic, and 
the moll able in his profeffion, and the molt elegant writer 
of his time, mult not be omitted. See vol. viii. p. 32.— 
Here are alio fine buds of Harvey, Sydenham, and Mead. 
—The celebrated and worthy George Edwards was li¬ 
brary-keeper for the laft forty years of his life. See vol. 
vi. p. 277. 
This fociety’s firft college, which was given them by 
Dr. Linacre, phyfician to Henry VIII. was in Knight- 
rider-ftreet. They afterwards removed to a houfe which 
they purchafed in Amen-corner, where Dr. Harvey built 
a library and a public hall, which he granted for ever to 
the college, and endowed it with his eftate, which he re- 
figned to them in his life-time. Part of this eftate is af- 
figned for an annual oration in commemoration of their 
benefactor, and to prbvide a good dinner for the fociety. 
This building perifhed in the flames, in 1666 ; after which 
the prefent edifice was erefted on a piece of ground pur¬ 
chafed by the fellows. 
Going again into Newgate-ftreet, and turning to the 
right, we foon came oppofite to Bagnio-cOurt, which took 
its name from the firft bagnio introduced in this city. 
The word is Italian, and means a bathing-place, a houfe 
where you can conveniently indulge in the luxury of 
•bathing. Hummum, which is the word employed at the 
©rher end of the town for houfes of this kind, is cor¬ 
rupted from the Arabic kammam, which alfo fignifies a 
bath. 
Near this, to the weft, is Bull-head-court, over the en¬ 
trance to which (and not at Bagnio-court, where Pen¬ 
nant directs us to look for it) we found a finall fculpture 
in ftone of William Evans, gigantic porter to Charles I. 
and his diminutive fellow-fervant, Jeffrey Hudfon, dwarf 
to the fame monarch. We are told that this fmall gen¬ 
tleman commanded, with much reputation, a troop of 
&orfe in his majefty’s fervice; and, in 1644, killed Mr. 
Crofts in a duel, who had ventured to ridicule him.—This* 
fculpture, which is fixed between the windows of the firft 
and fecond ftories of the houfe of Mr, Payne the hatter, 
feems to have been either renewed or repaired fince its 
being originally placed there; and is juft now frelh paint¬ 
ed ; the mantles or overalls of ihefe odd fellows are made 
red, the royal livery, and their waiftcoats white. At the 
weft corner of the houfe, (here is alfo a painting of the 
giant and dwarf,, by way of fign. The* height of the 
porter was feven feet and a half, the dwarf three feet 
nine inches; therefore the'idle ftory of the porter putting" 
the dwarf, in his pocket, related by Fuller, is not worth 
repeating, but as it {hows how eafy people of a certain 
delcription are able to fwallow' any fort of bait trimmed 
up to catch their credulity ; for, unlefs the giant had been 
all pocket from the Ihoulder to the knee, Hudfon, diminu¬ 
tive as he was, could never have been carried in that cu¬ 
rious guife. 
A pafiage ftill farther weft on the fame fide of theftreefc, 
leads to Chrift-church, which is dedicated to the name 
and honour of our Saviour, and originally belonged to the 
convent of Grey Friars, or Francifcans ; but, falling to 
the crowm at the diffolution of that religious houfe, 
Henry VIII. gave it to the mayor, commonalty, and ci¬ 
tizens, of London, to make a parilh church, in lieu of 
the two churches of St. Ewen, in Newgate-markef, near 
the north corner of Eldenefs, now called Warwick-lane, 
and of St. Nicholas in the Shambles, on the north fide of 
Newgate ; both which churches, and their parifties, were 
thereupon demolilhed ; and as much of St. Sepulchre’s 
parilh as lay within Newgate was added to this new-erefted 
parilh, which was then ordered to be called by the name 
of Chriji-church ; from which time it was made a vicarage, 
in the patronage of the mayor, commonalty, and citizens, 
of London, as governors of the hofpital of St. Bartholo¬ 
mew, alfo of the foundation of Henry VIII. and the 
king gave five hundred marks per annum, in land, for 
ever, for the maintenance of the faid church, with divine 
ferviee, repairs, &c. In confideration whereof, the mayor, 
commonalty, and citizens, did covenant and grant (inter 
alia), to find and fuftainone preacher at this church, who 
was to be, from time to time, vicar thereof; giving unto 
him, yearly, for his ftipend, 161. 13s. 4<1. to the vilitor 
(now called the Ordinary of Newgate) ten pounds ; and 
to the other five prielts in Chrift-church, all to be helping 
in divine lervice, ininiltering the facraments and lacra- 
mentals, eight pounds a-piece ; to two clerks, fix pounds 
each ; and to a fexton, four pounds yearly.—The old 
church was deftroyed by the fire of London, after which 
the prefent ftruclure was erefted. It is built of ftone, 
very ftrong, fpacious, and handfome. The tow er is fquare, 
and of a confiderable height, crowned with a light hand¬ 
fome turret, adorned with vafes. The inlkle is neatly 
ornamented ; the walls and pillars are wainfcoted, and 
there are very large galleries at the weft end, and on the 
north and fouth fides. On the fouth fide of the church 
without, has been lately erefted a plain but neat brick 
building, to be ufed as a veftry-room, for the better con¬ 
venience of the minifters who officiate in the church. 
After the fire of London, the parilh of St. Leonard, Fol- 
ter-lane, whole church was deftroyed, and not rebuilt, 
was annexed to Chrift-church ; and the patronage of the 
former, which is a reftory, being in the dean and chapter 
of Weltminfter, they, and the governors of St. Bartholo¬ 
mew’s Hofpital, prefent alternately to thefe united livings. 
The Grey Friars were friars minors of a religious order, 
or fociety, founded by St. Francis of Affiii, who was ca¬ 
nonized by pope Gregory IX. in 1228; of whom a de¬ 
tached body of nine brethren, viz. five prielts and four 
lay brothers, was fent from Italy to fettle and propagate 
their order in England. They arrived at Dover in 1224, 
from whence four of them repaired to London, and the 
other five fettled at Canterbury. Thofe who came to Lon¬ 
don were received and entertained by the Friars-preachers, 
at their houfe in Holborn; from whence they removed to 
a houie 
