1806.] 
HOLYWEULL-MOUNT. 
The very name of Holywell-mount is 
now almoft forgotten. It flood on one 
fide the road that leads from Worfhip- 
ftreet to Hoxton. Tradition made it the 
receptacle of thoufands who died of the 
plague in 1665 ; but from better autho- 
rity we learn it wasa mound of earth raifed 
in 1642 (when London was ferrounded by 
a trench), for the defence of the high 
North road. It covered originally three 
acres of ground; and from 1765 to 1787 
was leflened gradually, till at lalt a num- 
ber of ftreets arofe upon its fite. 
TOWER OF LONDON. 
The King it feems had formerly not 
only his menagerie, but his mews, in the 
Tower. Skelton, the poet-laureate, 
feems to allude to itin a fonnet to Mittrefs 
Margaret Huffey : 
Merry Margaret 
As midfomer flowre, 
Genty]l as faucon 
--Or hawke of the Towre. 
SF. CLEMENT'S DANES. 
This was one of the churches built up- * 
en the Strand before the Congueft, and re- 
ceived its name either from being the place 
where Harold Harefoot was interred, or 
from the maflacre of certain Danes who 
had taken refuge there, 
Among the rolls of parliament in the 
18th year of Edward J., 1290, we have 
@ petition from certain Jews, complaining 
that a Jewifh boy had been baptized here 
contrary to their inclinations, and praying 
the King to do them juftice. Edward 
however would not reveke the baptifm, 
and the Jews had no redrefs—(Rol. Parl., 
vol.i., p. 46). This was but one of the 
fightelt grievances which in the time we 
are {peaking of were endured by that un- 
happy people. 
Ac the time of Lord Effex’s infurrec- 
tion, a piece of artillery was placed on the 
top of the Tower, which commanded Ef- 
fex-Houle. “Fhe prefent flruéture was 
erefied in 1680. 
SPRING-GARDENS. 
Spring-garden and the Mulberry-gar- 
den are mentioned as places of intrigue in 
Sir. George Etherege’s comedy of ‘* She 
Would it She Could ;” and in a comedy 
‘ef Sir Charles Sedley’s, intitied ‘* The 
Mulberry Garden,” the fcene is in the 
Mulberry-garden rear St. James’s, 
Londiniane. 121 
At the time when the above were places 
of public refort, there was an edifice 
built of timber, and divided into fundry 
rooms, with a pli tform and balultrade at 
top, which floated on the Pinames above 
London Bridge, and was called the Folly. 
A view of it, anchored oppefite Somerfet. 
Houie, is given in Strype’s Stew, b. iv., 
p- 105; andthe hunours of it are de- 
{cribed by Ward inhis London Spy. At 
firft it was reforted to for refrefhment by 
perfons of fafhion ; and Queen Mary with 
fome of her courtiers had once the curio- 
fity to vifit it ; but it funk into a recep 
tacle for companies of loofe and diforderly 
people, for the purpofcs of drinking and 
promifcuous dancing ; and at length be- 
coming {candalous, the building was fuffer- 
ed todecay, and the materials thereof be- 
came fire-wood. 
FISHER BISHOP OF ROCHESTER. 
‘s His buft, by Pietro Torregiano, is in 
the hall of Mr.. Wright’s houfe, formerly 
Hatfield-Peverel-Priory, now modernized. 
This curious buft, with thofe of Henry 
VII., and Henry VIII., zt. 19, were 
taken out of the room over the Holbein- 
gate at Whitehall, and carried to Hatfield 
Priory, when the gate was taken down. 
They are in terra cotta,’—(MS. Letter 
from the Rev. Mr. Tylon, Nov. 10, 
1779+) 
HIGH-TIMBER-STREET. 
About thirty years ago a bas-relief in 
white marble having been found by Mr, 
Milles, a builder, among the ruins of a 
‘houfe at Iflington, was fixed up in the 
‘front of a warehoufe in this ftreet, near 
Labour-in-vain Hill. Ie reprefented the 
ancient Retiarius, armed with a net, to 
caft over his adverfary, and a trident to 
difpatch him thus entangled; was a fes 
pulchral monument ; and had a fhort in- 
fcription in Greek capitals, fetting forth 
that it was put up by Ania Martia to her 
hufband. A drawing from it, purchafed 
by Mr. Gough at Dr. Lort’s fale, was. 
engraved in the eleventh volume of the 
Archzologia. 
CONDUIT ON SNOW-HILL. 
The conduit on Snow-hill, which wag 
taken down 1742, had this in{cription : 
Incendic confump'um 
A®. MDCLXVI. 
‘Reftituit S$: P.O. L, 
A°®. MDCLUXXII. 
Thoma Davis. Mi- 
lite.’ Prstore. 
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