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twenty-two feet, ere my father heard thereof. No warning was given him, nor other answer, when he spake to the surveyors of that work, but that their master, Sir Thomas, commanded them so to do. No man durst go to argue the matter, but each man lost his land; and my father paid his whole rent, which was six shillings and eight pence the year, for that half which was left. This much of mine own knowledge have I thought good to note, that the sudden rising of some men causeth them to forget themselves."

After the fall of Cromwell, his mansion and gardens were purchased of the Crown by the Drapers' Company, whose Hall now occupies their site. The Drapers' Company have the honour of having had the first Lord Mayor of London, Henry Fitz-alwyn, elected from their society; they were not, however, incorporated till 1439, about seventy years after the art of weaving woollen cloth was introduced by the Dutch and Flemings into England. In the hall of the Drapers' Company is a large and interesting picture, ascribed to Zuchero, said to represent Mary Queen of Scots and her son, afterwards James the First. As the unfortunate Queen, however, never beheld her child after he was a twelvemonth old, the portrait, of course, could not have been drawn from the life.

Lothbury, a continuation of Throgmorton Street, was, according to Stow, anciently called Lath berie or Loadberie, probably from the name of some per

* Anno 1189.

son who kept a court or berry here. "This street," says Stow," is possessed for the most part by founders, that cast candlesticks, chafing dishes, spicemortars, and such like copper or laton works, and do afterwards turn them with the foot, and not with the wheel, to make them smooth and bright with turning and scrating (as some do term it), making a lothsome noise to the by-passers that have not been used to the like, and therefore by them disdainfully called Loth-berie."

This night I'll change

All that is metal, in my house, to gold:
And early in the morning will I send

To all the plumbers and the pewterers,

To buy their tin and lead up; and to Lothbury
For all the copper.

BEN JONSON, The Alchemist.

This street, as well as the narrow and populous thoroughfares adjoining it, appear to have suffered dreadfully during the visitation of the great plague. Defoe writes, "In my walks I had many dismal scenes before my eyes, as particularly of persons falling dead in the streets, terrible shrieks and screechings of women, who in their agonies would throw open their chamber-windows, and cry out in a dismal surprising manner. Passing through Tokenhouse-yard in Lothbury, of a sudden a casement violently opened just over my head, and a woman gave three frightful screeches, and then cried Oh death, death, death!' in a most inimitable tone, and which struck me with horror, and a chillness in my very blood. There was nobody to be seen in the whole

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street, neither did any other window open; for people had no curiosity now in any case; nor could any body help one another. Just in Bell Alley, on the right hand of the passage, there was a more terrible cry than that, though it was not so directed out at the window; but the whole family was in a terrible fright, and I could hear women and children run screaming about the rooms like distracted; when a garret window opened, and somebody from a window on the other side the alley called and asked, "What is the matter? upon which, from the first window it was answered, 'O Lord! my old master has hanged himself.' The other asked again, Is he quite dead?' and the first answered, Ay, ay, This person was a merchant, and a deputy-alderman, and very rich. But this is but one. It is scarce credible what dreadful cases happened in particular families every day. in the rage of the distemper, or in the torment of their swellings, which was indeed intolerable, running out of their own government, raving and distracted, oftentimes laid violent hands upon themselves, throwing themselves out at their windows, shooting themselves, &c.; mothers murdering their own children in their lunacy; some dying of mere grief, as a passion; some of mere fright and surprise, without any infection at all; others frighted into idiotism and foolish distractions, some into despair and lunacy; others into melancholy madness."

People,

In the reign of Henry the Eighth, we find a con

duit erected in Lothbury, which was supplied with water from "the spring of Dame Anne's the Clear," at Hoxton, but no trace of it now exists.

Token House Yard, Lothbury, was built, in the reign of Charles the First, on the site of the princely mansion of Thomas twentieth Earl of Arundel, the collector of the famous Arundel marbles. He subsequently removed to a suburban mansion on the banks of the Thames, of which Arundel Street, in the Strand, points out the site.

OLD JEWRY, ST. LAWRENCE CHURCH, MANSION HOUSE, LONDON STONE, &c.

OLD JEWRY, THE ORIGINAL BURIAL PLACE OF THE JEWS.-EXPULSION OF THE JEWS.-DR. LAMBE AND THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. -ST. OLAVE'S CHURCH.-ST. LAWRENCE JEWRY.-ST. THOMAS OF ACON. GILBERT À BECKET.-MERCERS' COMPANY.-THE POULTRY. -MANSION HOUSE. STOCKS MARKET. SIR JOHN CUTLER. BUCKLERSBURY.-INDIAN HOUSES.-ST. STEPHEN'S WALBROOK.LONDON STONE.-PRIOR OF TORTINGTON'S INNE."

ON the south side of Lothbury is the Old Jewry, so intimately associated with the persecution of the Jews in England, during the reign of our Norman sovereigns. Previous to the reign of Henry the First, the only burial place which the bigotry of our ancestors permitted to the Jews in England was in London, whither, in the words of Holinshed, they were "constrained to bring all their dead corpses from all parts of the realm." It was not till the year 1117, that they "obtained from King Henry a grant to have a place assigned them, in every quarter where they dwelled, to bury their dead bodies."* In the Old Jewry was their great synagogue, and in this quarter they continued to increase and multiply till 1283, when John Perkham, Archbishop of Canterbury, commanded the Bishop of London to destroy all the Jews' syna* Holinshed's "Chronicles," v. ii. p. 175.

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