. Memoirs of the city of London and its celebrities. ower, after taking a circuit roundLondon, terminated nearly at the foot of the pres-ent Blackfriars Bridge; running parallel with, andto the east of, the Fleet River. Here stood a strongfortress, the western Arx Palatina of the city, theremains of which were afterward used in construct-ing the neighbouring palace of Bridewell. Bridewell, which stood on the west side of theFleet River, and the walls of which were washedby its waters, appears to have been a formidablefortress in the reign of William the Conqueror,and was the residence of our s
. Memoirs of the city of London and its celebrities. ower, after taking a circuit roundLondon, terminated nearly at the foot of the pres-ent Blackfriars Bridge; running parallel with, andto the east of, the Fleet River. Here stood a strongfortress, the western Arx Palatina of the city, theremains of which were afterward used in construct-ing the neighbouring palace of Bridewell. Bridewell, which stood on the west side of theFleet River, and the walls of which were washedby its waters, appears to have been a formidablefortress in the reign of William the Conqueror,and was the residence of our sovereigns at leastas early as the reign of King John. This famouspalatial fortress derived its name from a spring, orwell, which flowed in the neighbourhood, and whichwas dedicated to St. Bride. It continued to beused as a palace as late as the reign of Henry theEighth, who constantly held his court there, andwho rebuilt it in a magnificent manner for thereception of the Emperor Charles the Fifth, onthe occasion of his visit to England in 1522. The. LONDON AND ITS CELEBRliliSS. 89 emperor, however, chose in preference the neigh-bouring palace of Hlackfriars, and accordingly hissuite only were lodged in Bridewell, a passagehaving been cut through the city wall to enablethe inmates of the two palaces to communicatewith each other. It was in the palace of Bridewell that Henrythe Eighth was holding his court at the time whenthe Popes legate, Cardinal Campeius, or Campeg-gio, arrived in England, for the purpose of investi-gating the legality of the kings marriage with theunfortunate Catherine of Aragon. The cardi-nal, we are told, came by long journeys intoEngland, and much preparation was made to re-ceive him triumphantly into London ; but he wasso sore vexed with the gout that he refused allsuch solemnities, and desired that he might, with-out pomp, be conveyed to his lodgings, for hismore quiet and rest. And so, on the 9th of Octo-ber, he came from St. Mary Overys by water, tothe
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