TALLIS'S

ILLUSTRATED LONDON,

CHAPTER I.

NEWGATE-STREET- -CHRIST CHURCH-CHRIST'S HOSPITAL-HOLBORN-ELY-PLACE- -HATTON-GARDEN

—BROOK-STREET-GRAY'S INN-CHANCERY-LANE

INN

FURNIVAL'S

LAMB'S CONDUIT

BLOOMSBURY-SQUARE

LINCOLN'S INN-RED LION-SQUARE

STREET-GREAT ORMOND-STREET-FOUNDLING HOSPITAL

RUSSELL-SQUARE

MUSEUM-ST. GILES'S CHURCH, ETC.

BRITISH

ONCE more we return to our original starting point, St. Paul's-churchyard, from which, entering Cheapside, we take a westerly direction, proceeding down Newgate-street, a street parallel with Paternoster-row, and at the eastern corner of which St. Martin's-le-Grand and Cheapside unite. This street is named after the gate which formerly occupied its west end, between Giltspur-street and the Old Bailey. Warwick-lane, Ivy-lane, Newgate-market, and the other places on its south side have already been noticed in our description of Paternoster-row. On the north side, in Bagnio-court, or Bath-street, the first bagnio or warm bath in England is supposed to have been established, in connection with which an hotel was also raised. The bath remains. The next street is King Edward-street, which runs from Newgate-street to Little Britain, and on part of the left hand side of which the wall of the garden of Christ's Hospital extends. It was first known as Stinking-lane, which was superseded by Chick-lane. It afterwards was called Blowbladder-street, we are told by Defoe, "from the butchers who used to kill and

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