The history and survey of London : from its foundation to the present time . nment of Weftminfter, bothEcelefafiical and Civil; with a Defer iption of the fever al Parifjes, andother Things remarkable within the City and Liberty thereof. THE Foundation of Wejiminjler Abbey hasbeen handed to us by many fabulousAccounts, invented by the Monks for privateViews : One of their pious Frauds was to palmit upon St. Peter, the Prince of the is the Invention of Abbot Wulfine, in theReign of Edward the Confejfor. Another refers itto the imaginary Reign of King Lucius. In thisUncertainty we
The history and survey of London : from its foundation to the present time . nment of Weftminfter, bothEcelefafiical and Civil; with a Defer iption of the fever al Parifjes, andother Things remarkable within the City and Liberty thereof. THE Foundation of Wejiminjler Abbey hasbeen handed to us by many fabulousAccounts, invented by the Monks for privateViews : One of their pious Frauds was to palmit upon St. Peter, the Prince of the is the Invention of Abbot Wulfine, in theReign of Edward the Confejfor. Another refers itto the imaginary Reign of King Lucius. In thisUncertainty we can determine no more thanadhere to thofe Writers who place its Foundationby Scbert, on the Ruins of a Temple dedicatedby the Heathen Saxons to Apollo. The Place where this magnificent and {late-ly Structure and City is fituate, was ancientlyan Ifland, which, from its being over-fpreadwith Thorns, received the Appellation of Thor-ney, or The I/land of Thorns ; and the Branch ofthe River which furrounded the fame, now deno-minated Long-ditch, had its Outflux from the River. CHAP. I. An Account of the Foundation of the Abbey ofWeftminfter, with the CcnJlruSiion of theprefent Church. 1328 The HISTORY of Vol. II. River Thames, near the Eaft End of Mancheftcr-ccurt, Channel-row; and interfering Kings-fir eet, glided along where Gardiners-lane is fituate, toLongditch (a Street fo called, wherein the Nameof this antient Watercourfe is (till preferved);and croffing Tothill-ftreet,. a little Weft of theGate-honje, continued its Courfe along the SouthWall of the Abbey Garden, to the Thames, wherenow the Common Sewer is, which was erected over it. This Monaftery, like mod others of theKing- Caufe it be, flying for his Refuge into the faidholy Place, he be allured of his Life, Libertyand Limbs. And over this, I forbid, under Painof everlafting Damnation, that no Minifter ofmine, or or my Succeffors, intermeddle themwith any the Goods, Lands, or PoffefTions of thefaid Perfons, taking the fa
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