120 
tion of the faint to whom the church was 
dedicated is thus mentioned under the year 
T5265 
<‘ Payde for brede, ale, and wyne, 
and garlonds, on Seynt Marten’s 
day, thetranflacion, - ~- sxwjd.” 
From another part of thefe accompts we. 
learn the price of boat-hire in 1544 :-— 
‘© Item, paid for bote-hyre to and 
from Weftmynfl’r iij tymes, yn 
folowyng the fute againft Pady 
and Joyn’, vd.; and unto the 
fergeant of the corte of the 
King’s-warde, for fomonyng of 
the faid Roger Pady ij times, 
for payment of the morrow- 
maffe, priefte’s  falary and 
wages, iijs.; amounteth iis. vd. 
LONDON RESIDENCE OF THE BISHOPS 
OF LITCHFIELD AND COVENTRY. 
As to the London refidence of the Bi- 
fhop’s of Litchfield, ftyled in Smyth’s Re- 
gifter ‘* His houfe without the bars of the 
New Temple, London,”’ it was common- 
ly called ** Chefter-Place,’’ and under that 
title was affured by aét of parliament 31 
Henry VIII. to Edward Earl of Hertford, 
to whom the King had made a grant of it, 
having wrelted it from the fee without any 
compenfation, ‘The Earl, who was cre- 
ated Duke of Somerfet 1. Edward VI. 
(1546), built a magnificent houfe on the 
ite; and when the popular tide began to 
turn againft this. favourite of fortune, 
among other things which aggravated the 
general odium, it is remarked by a grave 
author, that ‘* many weil difpofed: minds 
conceived a very hard opinion of him for 
caufing a church near Strand-bridge and 
two bifhops’ houfes to be pulled down, to 
make a feat for his new building called 
Somerfet-Houfe”’—({Dugd. Bar., i1,, 363) 
Yet what Fuller, with his ufual quaint- 
nef, obferves of this honfe, perhaps may 
deferve mentioning : that it is ‘* fo tena- 
cious of the name”’ of this celebrated but 
unfortunate Duke, ‘* though he was not 
full five years poflefled of it, that it would 
not change a duchy for a kingdom, when 
folemnly prociaimed by King James Den- 
mark-Houle, from the King of Denmark’s 
lodging therein, and his fifter Queen Anne 
her repairing thereof’? — (Church. Hit., 
b. Vii., p. 410, with 407, and b. vi., 
P- 3579 Xi-y 119). The name fiill fur- 
vives ; and if a building the moft beauti- 
ful perhaps, and the moft ample, that ever 
was-dedicated by a wealthy nation to the 
elegant arts and civil police ; carried on 
without intermifien during a moft expen- 
Londiniana: 
[Marctt t, 
five war, when Europe and America were 
leagued againft Britain ; if thefe circum- 
ftances can give immortality to human 
operations, and fecure a place in the page 
of faithful hiftory, Somerfet-Houfe will be 
known by the lateft ages, to the honour of — 
a patriotic monarch, and a brave, gene~ 
rous, and loyal people.—(See Churton’s 
Life of Bifhop Smyth, p. 53-55.) 
Spelman. (Reliq., p. 212), and after 
him Strype (Stowe’s Survey, b. iv.y 
p- 105), afltrt that Chefter-Houfe was 
wrelted from the fee without any compen 
fation ; but a manufcript in the Cotton 
Library (Vefp., L. xvi., 2.). fays the Bi- 
fhop had in recompence the parlonage of 
Hanberry in Staffordfhire. 
WESTMINSTER-ABBEY-~ 
*° On Saturday half-a-dozen of us made 
a pilgrimage tothe tombs in Weltminfter- 
, Abbey, condu&ted by Sir Jofeph Aylofte. 
The Society (of Antiguaries) have, or 
will have, drawings made of Siebert’s 
tomb, and fome paintings omit; alfo, I 
believe, of fome other remarkable objeéts. 
«* T thought I had got a valuable relié 
of Henry V., being part of his filk-ftock- 
ing; but I find all thofe figures now call- 
ed the raggéd regiment. were new-drefled 
in James I.’s time, when. the King of 
Denmark was to vifit them, The late 
“Queen Caroline wifhed to do the fame ; 
but the eftimate delivered into her being 
1oool,, fhe dropped the defign. How- 
ever, the blocks are certainly curious, 
being, I doubt not, good refemblances 
taken at the time.”"—(Orig. Letter from 
Dr. Lort, May 13, 1777-) 
LONDON TRADERS. 
In Fitz Stephens’s time we find that in 
London the followers of thefeveral trades, 
the venders of various commodities, and 
the labourers of every kind, were daily to 
be found in’ their proper and diftiné&t 
places, according to their employments, as 
is the cafe at the prefent day among the 
bazars of the Eaft. This conflux of the. 
feveral trades and callings is ftill perpetu. 
ated in the names of many of our ftreeis, 
as Cornhill, Bread-ftreet, Fifh-ftreet, Poul- 
try, Vintry, Hofier-lane, Shoe-lane, Milk- 
fireet, andtwenty others. Butcher rows 
every where occur. At the time of the 
plague in 1666, Bucklerfoury was filled 
by apothecaries ; and at a later period 
Middle-row was celebrated for peruke- 
makers. Nor muft it be forgotten, that 
in early times the fanGtity with which St, 
Paul’s was furrounded gave name ‘to 
others in a different way, as Pater-Nofter- 
tow, AveeMaria-lane, and Amen-corners, 
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