The rod of power long patient to sustain, W. B. Also the said WILLIAM BINGLEY, died 23d October, 1799, aged sixty-one. Cold is that heart that beat in Freedom's cause, Unmov'd by threats or bribes his race he ran, And liv'd and died the Patriot!-the Man. The earl of Dorset, in 1610, upon condition that the pa rishioners would not bury in the south church-yard, opposite his mansion house, granted a parcel of ground on the side of Fleet Ditch, for a new burial place, which was consecrated by Dr. George Abbot, bishop of London, in the same year. The church of St. Bridget, was a rectory till the year 1485, since which it has continued a vicarage, under the patronage of the Abbey of Westminster. RECTORS OF EMINENCE. bishop of Norwich, 1499. THOMAS JAN, or JANE, D. D. VICARS. JOHN TAYLOR, alias CARDMAKER, S. T. B. first a Franciscan friar, afterwards married, appointed reader in St. Paul's by Edward VI. chancellor of Wells, of which he was deprived by Mary I, committed to Bread Street Compter, and on the 30th of May, 1555, burnt for the Protestant faith, in Smithfield, with John Warne, who suffered for the same cause. THOMAS PALMER, B. D. was sequestered in 1642. He was a pious man, an excellent preacher, and a benefactor to the poor, having built and endowed a neat, almshouse at Westminster. RICHARD BUNDY, D. D. author of several works. JOHN JOHN THOMAS, L.L.D. afterwards dean of Westminster, and bishop of Rochester. JOHN BLAIR, L. L. D. prebendary of Westminster, and compiler of the Chronology, to which his name is affixed. IN BRIDE LANE was the inn of the abbot and convent of Winchcombe, in Gloucestershire, as appears by the will of John Hill, who gave, in 1439, three tenements to the rector and guardians of St. Bridget, to celebrate his anniversary for ever. PARSON'S COURT, in this lane, is so called on account of its being built on the site of the antient vicarage house. Underneath the church wall, stands the pump that covers Bridewell, or St. Bride's Well, which took its name from the saint to whom the church is dedicated, agreeably to the superstition of the times, appropriating wells to the persons or things belonging to the church, as Monks-well, Clerken, or Clerk's-well, Holy-well, &c. Gu the 21st of July 1787, a dreadful fire broke out at Mr. Worboys, jeweller, near Bride Lane, in Fleet Street, in which Mr. Worboys unhappily was burnt to death. Knives were first made in England by Thomas Mathews, on Fleet Bridge, in the year 1563. The use of forks at table did not prevail in England till the reign of James I. as appears from the following passage in Coryat: "Here I will mention a thing that might have. been spoken of before in discourse of the first Italian towns. I observed a custom in all those Italian cities and townes through the which I passed, that is not used in any other country that I saw in my travels, neither do I thinke that any other nation of Christendome doth use it, but only Italy. The Italian, and also most strangers that are commonant in Italy, doe always at their meals use a Little Forke when they eat their meate; for while with their Knife, which they hold in one hand, they eat the meate out of the dish, they fasten the Forke, which they hold in the other hand, upon the same dish, so that whatsoever he be that sitting in the company of any others at meale should unadvisedly touch the dish of meat with his fingers from 3 which which all the table doe cut, he will give occasion of offence unto the company as having transgressed the lawes of good manners, in so much that for his errour he shall be at least brow-beaten, if not reprehended in wordes. This form of feeding I understand is generally used in all parts of Italy, their forks for the most part being made of yrown, steele, and some of silver, but those are used only by gentlemen. The reason of this their curiosity is, because the Italian cannot by any means indure to have his dish touched with fingers, seeing all mens fingers are not alike cleane. Hereupon I myself thought good to imitate the Italian fashion by this forked cutting of meate, not only while I was in Italy, but also in Germany, and often times in England since I came home: being once quipped for that frequently using my forke, by a certain learned gentleman, a familiar friend of mine, Mr. Lawrence Whitaker; who, in his merry humour, doubted not to call me at table FURCIFER*, only for using a forke at feeding, but for no other cause." In New Bridge Street, is the HAND IN HAND FIRE OFFICE. This office, erected in the year 1696, for insuring only houses, formerly stood in Angel Court, opposite St. Sepulchre's church. According to the plan, every insurer signs a deed of settlement, by which he is not only insured, but insures all that have signed that deed, from losses in their houses by fire. So that every person thus insured, is admitted into joint partnership, and becomes an equal sharer in the profits and loss, in proportion to their respective insurances. The business of this office is managed by twenty-four directors, who are chosen by the persons insured, in rotation,and serve the office three years without any salary or reward. And this office keeps in its service thirty firemen, who are protected from a press, and are annually cloathed, and wear a silver badge, with two hands joined, and over them a crown. In our conclusion of this side of Fleet Street, it ought to be added, that it formerly contained a great number of taverns; and that James Farr, a barber, who kept the A Knave. coffee = coffee house now the Rainbow, or Nando's coffee house, by the Inner Temple Gate, one of the first in England; was in the year 1667, presented by the inquest of St. Dunstan's in the West, for making and selling a sort of liquor called Coffee, as a great nuisance and prejudice of the neighbourhood, &c. END OF THE TENTH ROUTE. ROUTE XI. Commencing at Field Lane, to Chick Lane, Black Boy Alley, Saffron Hill, Kirby Street, Hatton Garden, Hatton Wall, Leather Lane, Liquorpond Street, Gray's Inn Lane. Return by Portpool Lane, Baldwin's Gardens, to Holborn Bars; and by Brook House, Street, and Market, continue to Furnival's Inn, Hatton Garden, and Ely Place, to Field Lane. PON looking at Aggas's Map of London, in the UPON year 1560, we shall find that the north side of Holborn consisted of only a single row of houses, with gardens behind them; and that Field Lane was a mere opening from the street to the fields between Holborn, and Clerkenwell; there was a narrow path, where at present stands Saffron Hill, through a long pasture, bounded by the Turnmill Brook, and the wall of Lord Hatton's garden. A passage between two walls, or hedges, passed to Smithfield, on the site of Chick Lane; and the rest of the neighbourhood was occupied by Ely House, and Hatton House, with their several gardens, &c. Field Lane, in Stow's time, was distinguished as "a filthy passage into the fields." It has undergone no improvement since his time; but is still one of the most dirty, narrow avenues in the metropolis; though constantly crowded with passengers to the various petty streets and alleys of Saffron Hill liberty, and St. Sepulchre's Without. VOL. IV. No. 79. H It It abounds with shops for the sale of cloaths, tripe, old iron, and too often with receptacles for the receipt of stolen property. Chick Lane, a street rather wider, is also better inhabited; but still a very inconvenient place. At the east end is a new-built work house for the poor of St. Sepulchre's parish. On the north side is a mass of tenements, fearful to approach, called Black Boy Alley. During the reign of king George II. this place was the terror of the whole city The method pursued by the inhabitants, who were called "The Black Boy Alley Gang," was to intice the unwary by means of prostitutes, then gag them, so that they should not alarm; after which it was the practice of these nefarious wretches to drag their prey to one of their depositories, and having robbed the parties, instantly mur. dered them, and threw the dead bodies down into the ditch. Their atrocity, however, became so notorious, that government pursued the offenders so effectually, that no less than nineteen were executed at one time. Hogarth has depicted one of these diabolical scenes in his prints of the Industrious and Idle Apprentice, where the idle apprentice is betrayed by his companion to the officer of justice. Saffron Hill, is a long street of indifferent houses; there are several avenues and courts, the resorts of poverty and filth; towards Turnmill Street, a double range of houses of nearly the same complexion, except a few dwellings and factories of respectable persons, for the convenience of room. Out of Saffron IIill, a passage formerly ascended by steps, leads to CHARLES STREET, and KIRBY STREET; SO called from an estate possessed by the noble family of Hatton. In Kirby Street, was the house in which resided the learned printer, WILLIAM BOWYER, Esq. of whose benevolence we have made mention under STATIONER'S HALL. In Cross Street, is HATTON HOUSE; this was built by Sir Christopher Hatton, who by his elegant manners, rather than his mental qualifications, attracted the notice of queen |