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a houfc in Cornhill, provided for tliem by John Travers, 
wherein they continued for about a-year ; but, being much 
ftraitened for room, in confequence of the great increafe 
of their numbers, John Ewyn. citizen and mercer of 
London, who afterwards became a lay brother among 
them, purchafed a plot of ground in the parifti of St. Ni¬ 
cholas Shambles, which he gave in truft to the mayor and 
commonalty of London, for the purpofe of providing 
them with a foot of ground, whereon a building for their 
ufe might be erected.—A fite being thus procured, which 
was confiderahly enlarged by the additional benefactions 
of the mayor and commonalty, as well as by the munifi¬ 
cence of private citizens, divers of the principal inhabi¬ 
tants of the city began, in the year 1225, to ereft, at their 
own expenfe, a houi'e and chapel, for the better accommo¬ 
dation of thefe friars. But, their numbers continuing to 
increafe, the chapel became too fmall for the celebration 
of the divine offices ; wherefore Margaret, confort to king 
Edward I. began a llately and very fpacious church, which 
was twenty-one years in building, and, in dimenfions, 
exceeded all the places of worfhip in this city, except the 
cathedral ; it being no lefs than three hundred feet in 
length, eighty-nine in breadth, and fixty-four feet in 
height: this magnificent ftrufture extended from But- 
cher-hall-lane to the Grey-Friars’ gateway. Among other 
benefa£lors to this convent, was fir Richard Whittington, 
fo often mentioned with honour, who, at his own expenfe, 
erefted a library, one hundred and twen.ty.-nine feet long, 
and thirty-one broad, and furniflied it with good (tore of 
books. Weaver, in his Funeral Monuments, informs us, 
that here were buried four queens, four ducheffes, four 
counteffes, one duke, two earls, eight barons, and thirty- 
five knights; and, in all, fix hundred and fixty-three 
perfons of quality were here interred, before the difl'olu- 
tion of the convent. In the choir were nine tombs of 
alabafter and marble, inclofed with iron bars. One tomb, 
in the body of the church, coped w ith iron ; and one 
hundred and forty marble grave-ftones, in divers places ; 
all which were pulled down, removed, and fold, by fir Mar¬ 
tin Bowes, lord-mayorof London, in 1545, for fifty pounds. 
The account which Stow gives us of this ancient foun¬ 
dation is interefting, but too extenfive for our columns. 
The names of the citizens and others who fo liberally 
contributed to the ereClion of the convent and church 
belonging to the Grey Friars 5 the lilt of nearly all thofe 
that had been buried in the fame church ; the defeription 
of their monuments and epitaphs-; are curious, and of 
importance in tracing families and in connecting them in 
genealogical order; but are foreign to our purpofe. We 
thall, however, prefent to our readers part of an epitaph 
which was engraved there on the monument of Matter 
Robert Rogers, who died anno 1601. It is a dialogue be¬ 
tween Death, Time, and Rogers. 
Death. Stand fairely encountred both. Grave fove- 
reigne Time, 
Borne of eternity, age’s father. 
Prince of all power—all powers on earth are thine 
That doeft iny mine’s trtieft records gather. 
Lend thy content,.thy helping hand to mine 
And Death will make Time’s fovereignty as great 
As the three fillers, ladies of Herne fate. 
Time. Impartiall Death, honour’s refpeCtlefie foe. 
Grim meagre caytiffe, wherefore doelt thou come ? 
Mull virtue’s children to the flaughter goe, 
In thy blood-yawning cell to fill a roome ? 
Can none but they quench thy bloudy rhirlt ?—Death. No 
R ogers I come for : Time, thou canft not lave him : 
This dart mult (trike him, and grim Death will have him, 
Rogers. Death, welcome; all by thee, I know, mult end ; 
Nor doe I care for longer life than this : 
I thank thee theu halt ftai’d fo long, kinde friend. 
Sweet Time, be patient, pardon my amiffe, 
If I have time miffper.t, alas ! we all offend. 
If, laid I ?—yes, ’tis certain fure I have ; 
jpor which offence, deare Time, pardon I grave. 
Von.. XIII. No. 923. 
D O N. 30 ] 
The anfwer of Time, the peremptory reply of Death, 
and the epitaph written by Time, conclude this dramatic 
piece of funeral poetry, and yield no bad fpecimen of tha 
elegiac Ityle of that age, when the Britilh Mule, (til! in 
her childhood, was trifling and toying with antithefes 
and conceits. 
The church of St. Nicholas Shambles, which was pulled 
down when Chrift-church was erected, took its namn 
from its dedication to St. Nicholas, and its additional 
epithet from its (ituation ; the Shambles having been th# 
ancient name of Newgate-ftreet, from the flefli-market 
therein. It flood at the corner of Butcher-hall-lane.•— 
That of St. Ewen, or Owen, was on the fouth fide of New¬ 
gate-ftreet, between the market and Warwick-lane ; tins 
remains of which were very lately exifting in the cellars 
of the houfes on that fpot. 
Butcher-hall-lane, as it is now called, was anciently de¬ 
nominated Stinking-lane, and Chick-lane, on account of 
the (trong fmell which arofefrom the (laughter houfes and 
poultry-ffiops there. It was contiguous to, and at the 
eaft of, the Grey Friars. A motion was made in the 3d 
year of Richard II. that “ no butcher fliould kill any fielb 
within London, but at Knight’s-bridge, or fuch-like dif- 
tant place from the walls of the citie’.” - A moft whole- 
fome regulation, if it had taken place, and which would 
be even now ftrongly fupported by the inhabitants of ths 
ward of Farringdon within, on account of the nuifances 
daily committed in Warwick-lane and thereabouts. We 
und'erttand, that the flaughter-houfes in Warwick-lane 
have been prefented and reprefented by the inhabitant* 
as a nuifance, and that proceedings are inftituted for the 
purpofe of removing them; but we do not expert the ap¬ 
plication will be attended with fuccefs: the butchers may 
plead fuch a long prefeription, that they can hardly be 
proferibed. 
Newgate-ftreet is well built and of a noble breadth, full 
of trade and of buftle. It has moreover this remarkable 
feature, that moft of thofe perfons who prepare canvas 
and fell worded for the fmall pieces of tapeftry which 
have been of late the amufement of our ladies of rank, 
feem to have gathered themfelves together in this ftreet. 
The number of carriages which this ftreet pours into 
Cheapfide, and thofe it receives in return, makes it rather 
incumbered, and, at certain times, an impeded fort of 
paftage to the heart of the city. It is one of thofe large 
arteries and veins, which, notwithftanding their width, 
are liable to become obftru&ed. From the point where 
on one fide you have the (trong building of Newgate ami 
on the other the corner-houfe adjoining the Compter, the 
view is moft interefting. On the right, you calf a long 
glance at Srnithfy-ld ; on the left you reach nearly to Lud- 
gate-hill; but, flraight forward, or to the weft, the feens 
difplays itfelf with real grandeur and magnificence. St. 
Sepulchre’s church on one hand; the fteeple'and pin¬ 
nacles of St. Andrew Holborn, at a diftance, on the other* 
the noble breadth of Skinner-ftreet, (loping down to the 
end of the market, and, by an undulatin-g°continuation 
riling to_ Holborn.hill;—gives a particular and molt clu- 
rafteriltic afpeift to this part of the metropolis. 
The church of St. Sepulchre, which is fo dedicated in com¬ 
memoration of our Saviour’s Cepulchre or gr..ve at Jeru- 
falem, is now a fpacious building, but not (b large as of 
old time, part of the fite of it being let out upon "a build- 
ing-leafe. It is fuppofed to have been founded about ths 
year 1100, at which time a particular devotion was paid 
to the Holy Sepulchre; and was fo decayed in the reign 
of Edward IV. as to require re-building.' Roger biffioo^oV 
Salifbury, in the reign of Henry I. had given the patronage 
of this church to the prior and convent of St. Bartholomew 
in Weft Smirhfield, who eftablifhed a perpetual vicarage 
in it, and held it tiil their diffolution, when it fell to the 
crown. King James I. in the feventh year of his rei n 
granted the reftory and its appurtenances, and the ad- 
vowfon of this vicarage, to Francis Philips and others • 
after which the pariffiioners purchafed the reftory and ; ’s 
appurtenances, and held them in fse-farm of the crown - 
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