On the south side of Holborn-hill, adjoining Shoelane, which is also entered from Fleet-street, and nearly opposite to Ely-place, is the parish church of St. Andrew's, Holborn. Originally it was a rectory, of which the abbots of Bermondsey had the patronage, and upon the dissolution of monastic establishments it was granted to Lord Chancellor Thomas Wriothesley, the Earl of Southampton, a great persecutor of the early Protestants, and upon his death he was buried in the church. The present fabric was built by Sir Christopher Wren in 1687, and has numbered among its rectors Bishops Bancroft and Stillingfleet, and Dr. Sacheverel. In St. Andrew's Church was baptized Richard Savage, the unfortunate poet, and his equally luckless fellow-bard Chatterton, was interred there. Mr. Cunningham notices the curious fact that Savage was born in Fox-court, Brook-street, and Chatterton died in Brook-street; and that Savage died in Bristol, and Chatterton was born in Bristol. There are many monuments in the interior, and among the benefactions, Lady Hatton, who died in 1645, gave £500 to remain stock for the poor, both below and above the bars. Adjacent to the church is Thavies Inn, so named after a mansion which stood upon the spot in the reign of Edward III., belonging to John Tavye. It afterwards became a Law Inn attached to Lincoln's Inn, but having been destroyed by fire, it was deserted by the lawyers, and private dwellings raised upon the plot. Fetter-lane, which has an opening into Holborn, has been noticed in our survey of Fleet-street. Returning to the north side a handsome pile of buildings called Furnival's Inn attracts the eye. In ancient days this was the residence of the Furnivals, a noble family who came from Normandy in the time of Richard I., and accompanied the Lion King to Palestine, and who subsequently were distinguished for their prowess on the battle-fields of Caen and Cressy. The title became extinct in the reign of Richard II., and the estate passed into the possession of Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury. In Elizabeth's reign Lord

Shrewsbury sold the property to the Society of Lincoln's Inn, by whom the chief portion of the old house was taken down in the days of Charles I. In 1819 the premises were entirely removed, and the present handsome range of buildings erected by Mr. Peto. The composition of the front is of three parts: a boldly-projecting centre, and two slightly projecting wings. It is four stories in height: the entrance, or ground story, is rusticated and perforated by windows with semicircular heads; the centre opening is a large gateway, covered by an elliptical rusticated arch, and leads to the inner quadrangle; the one and two-pair stories have windows decorated by architraves; those in the wings have pediments: the whole is surmounted by a cornice. The centre of the principal division has a portico of the Ionic order. At the bottom of the inner quadrangle is a handsome hotel. Opposite is Barnard's Inn, an Inn of Chancery belonging to Gray's Inn, and possessing no architectural pretensions. It was originally called Mackworth's Inn, having been given by the executors of Dr. John Mackworth, Dean of Lincoln, to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, on condition that they should find a pious priest to perform divine service in the Cathedral of Lincoln, in which John Mackworth was buried. Castle-street, the next turning, covers the site of the mansion of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, celebrated for his love of the fine arts, and for his having introduced many architectural improvements into this country. Staple's Inn, an Inn of Chancery belonging to Gray's Inn, is entered from the south of Holborn, close to Middle-row. It was thus named from its being a staple in which the wool-merchants used to assemble, and as early as 1415 was transferred to the members of the legal profession. It has also an entrance from Southampton-buildings, and has been much improved since 1843 by the erection of several elegant stone mansions in which are the offices of some of the Masters in Chancery. On the north side, facing Staple's Inn, is Brook-street, which, though now a place of little account, indicates the

situation once occupied by the princely residence of Sir Fulk Greville, Lord Brook, the names and titles of whose distinguished family are perpetuated in Greville, and some of the adjacent streets. This nobleman perished in 1628 by the hands of Ralph Haywood, a retainer, who had passed the greater part of his life in his lordship's service. Lord Brook omitted this person from his will, a fact which he himself communicated to Haywood. The disappointed man, entering his lordship's bed-room, remonstrated upon this treatment, to which the testator replying angrily, Haywood inflicted upon him a mortal sword-wound, and withdrawing to another room terminated his own life with the weapon which he had so fatally employed against his master. In 1770 the youthful poet Chatterton, driven to desperation by hunger and neglect, poisoned himself in this street by taking arsenic in water, he being then not eighteen years of age.

We are now at Holborn Bars, the extent of the city jurisdiction, passing which and opposite to Middle-row, a range of houses between the carriage-way and the south side of Holborn (a nuisance which ought long since to have disappeared), we arrive at Gray's Inn-lane, a long straggling thoroughfare on the north side, which, continued by Gray's Inn-road, terminates at King's Cross, Newroad. It is named after the adjacent Inn of Court, and towards its north end several handsome streets and squares cover a space which not many years back yielded a pleasant country walk. Gray's Inn extends from the west side of Gray's Inn-lane to the back of Bedford-row, and to Holborn and King's-road on the south and north. Its name is derived from the noble family of the Grays, who in the reign of Edward III. conveyed the ground on which it has been erected, and which formed part of the manor of Portpool, to Hugh Denny. The next owner of the manor was the Prior of East Sheen, in Surrey, by whom it was let on lease to certain students of law, a lease which was renewed by Henry VIII. The hall was erected in 1560, and the gardens in 1600. Among the