The history and survey of London : from its foundation to the present time . rch-flreet; and anotherAlley, once called Sprinkle-alley, from an holyWater-pot, which ufed to hang there, but nowSugar- loaf-alley. Near this was a large Houfe, and divers Te-nements near adjoining, which fome Time belong-ed to a diflblved Priory, but afterwards given byKing Henry VIII. to one Mrs. Comwallis, Wi-dow, and her Heirs, in Reward for fome finePuddings which (he made and prefented to him :Such was the Princely Liberality of thofe little farther was the Houfe of Sir NicholasThrogmorton, and ot late
The history and survey of London : from its foundation to the present time . rch-flreet; and anotherAlley, once called Sprinkle-alley, from an holyWater-pot, which ufed to hang there, but nowSugar- loaf-alley. Near this was a large Houfe, and divers Te-nements near adjoining, which fome Time belong-ed to a diflblved Priory, but afterwards given byKing Henry VIII. to one Mrs. Comwallis, Wi-dow, and her Heirs, in Reward for fome finePuddings which (he made and prefented to him :Such was the Princely Liberality of thofe little farther was the Houfe of Sir NicholasThrogmorton, and ot late the African-Houfe,now pulled down to enlarge the Eaft-India Ware-houfe in Billiter-lane. Then, fomewhat more Weft, is Belzeters-lane, fo called from the firft Builder and Ownerthereof, now corruptly called Billiter-lane; aPlace confifting formerly of poor and ordinaryHoufes, where it feems needy and beggarly Peo-ple ufed to inhabit; whence the Proverb, ABawdy Beggar of Billiter-lane ; which is fome-where ufed by Sir Thomas More, in the Book hewrote againft Tyndal. Betwixt. Book II. ^HISTORY ^/LONDON. 777 Betwixt this Belzeters - lane and Lime -flreet,three new Houfes being to be built, in the Year1590, in a Tlace where before was a largeGarden Plat, inclofed from the Street by a highBrick Wall, upon taking down the faid Wall,and digging for Cellarage, another Wall ofStone was found direclly under the Brick Wall,with an arched Gate-way of Stone, and Gatesof Timber to be clofed in the Midft towardsthe Street -, the Timber of the Gates was con-fumed, but the Hinges of Iron were then re-maining on their Staples on both Sides. More-over, in that Wall were fquare Windows, withBars of Iron on each Side this Gate ; the Wallwas above two Fathoms deep under Ground,fuppofed to be the Remains of thofe great Fires,mentioned on p. 32. or to be the Ruins of fomeHoufe burnt in the Reign of King Stephen,when the Fire began in the Houfe of one Ael-ward, near London-flone, and confumed Eaft toAld
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