1806.] 
could preferve it from the mercilefs zeal 
of the times ; for in 1646 it was demo- 
lifhed by order of the Houfe of Commons,’ 
as popifh and fuperftitious. This occa- 
fioned a not unhumourous farcafm, which 
has been often printed among the popular 
fonnets of thofe times—(See Bifhop Per- 
cy’s Reliques of Ancient Englihh Poetry, 
edit. 1765, 1i., 327). This and all the 
others are faid to have been built from the 
defigns of Peter Cavallini. An outline of 
it has been engraved in Smith’s Ilufra- 
tions of Pennant ; it feems to have been 
octangularly formed ; and, if a true idea 
may be gathered from the drawing, not 
- near fo exquifite or rich in workmanfhip as 
the crofs at Waltham. 
Among what are called the King’s 
Pamphlets in the Britith Mufeum, is an 
humourous one intitled ** The Lat Will 
and ‘T’eftament of Charing-Croffe, yery 
ufeful for the Wits of the Time.” It be- 
gins, ‘ Imprimis, I commit my body to 
be buried in the ftrufture of a new-erected 
conduit, to be fepulcbred in the place 
where I have lived fo long, and now mut 
die, that fo water may continually flow 
from my monument to wafh the eyes of 
thofe forrowful faces that (when they 
paffe by ) figh and fob at the remembrance 
of me.”’ After enumerating completely 
the hiftory of Cheapfide Cro(s its fitter, it 
obferves, that it had uncergone no change 
or repairs itfelf. ** Signed this 31% of 
Auguft, 1646, being the 356th yeare of 
my age.”” 
The extraordinary reverence with 
which thefe crofles were pafled in the days 
of popery and bigot-piecy, may be gather- 
ed from the following paflage in © The 
Merry Devil of Edmonton :” 
‘¢ But there are crofles, Wife ; here’s one in 
Waltham, 
Another atthe Abbey, and the third 
At Cefton ; and’tis ominous to pats 
Any of thefe without a Pater-Nofler. 
HENRY Vil.’s CHAPEL. 
From a particular entry in the Journals 
of the Houle of Commons, 1644, it ap- 
pears as if the Puritans had an eye to the 
deftruction of the beautiful tomb of Henry 
VII. Anno1644, 24th April, being one 
of their public faits, «Ordered, That the 
materials informed of by Sir Robert Hai- 
dy, be forthwith fold by Sir Robert Har- 
Jey, viz., the miter and crozier-ttaff found 
in Paul’s church, London, and the brafs 
and iron in Henry VII.’s chapel, Wet- 
minfter, and the proceed thereof to be em- 
ployed according to the direétion of this 
Roufe,”’—Journals, vol. iii., p. 463. 
Londiniana. 
119 
OLD-STREET. 
This was undoubtedly an ancient Ro- 
man road, which came from Staines, and 
crofled the Watling-ftreet at Tyburn. Te 
continued along the north fide of London, 
crofled Shoreditch church-yard in a ftrait 
line to Old Ford, and ran to Colchefter in 
Effex. Dr. Stukeley named it Via Ice- 
niana, or Trinabantica. In many parts the 
ancient road is ftill vifible ; and beyond 
Bethnal-green its veitiges make a confi. 
derable figure. 
ST. OLAVE JEWRY. 
It was in this parifh, in the houfe of 
Robert Large, mayor of London, in 14395 
that William Caxton, the celebrated prin- 
ter, ferved his apprenticefhip as a mercer. 
His matter, in the following year, left him 
thirty-four marks, asa teftimonial of his 
fidelity. When the art of printing was 
difcovered on the Continent, Caxton made 
himfelf an early mafter of it, and intro- 
duced it into England about 1474. He 
received particular encouragement fromm 
Tflip the Abbot of Weftminiter, who was 
in thofe days a great patron of literary me= 
rit, and printed moft of his books within 
the precinéts of the monaftery. 
ST. PETER PAUL’S-WHARF% 
In the parifh of St. Peter's Paul’s- 
wharf, in the time of Edward IV., ftood 
the manfion of Cicely Duchefs of York, 
the only remembrance of which is preferv- 
ed in the archiepifcopal regifters of Lam-. 
beth, where it is recorded, that, on May 
7, 1483, the archbifhops, prelates, and 
Nobles, who were nominated executors in 
Edward’s will, met there to iffue a com- 
miffion for the care and fequefiration of © 
the royal property. And here it may be 
Curious to mention, that the will under 
which they met is not now known to be, 
extant. Probably it was intentionally de- 
ftroyed during the ufurpation of his bro- 
ther Richard III. : 
LUDGATE. 
Among the donations which were fre- 
quently made to the inmates of religious 
houfes, many were appropriated to parti- 
cular purpofes. A tenement and its ap- 
purtenances by the gate at Ludgate were 
given to to the Nuns of St. Mary Clerk - 
enwell to provide them (calceamzuta) 
fhoes. 
ST. MARTIN OUTWICH. 
The pariih-accompts here, which fiill 
remain, afford many curious illuftrations 
of the manners and expences of former 
times. They begin f early as 1509, and 
preferve a Singular remembrance of many 
of the popifh fuperftitions. The celebra- 
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