. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. connecting thoroughfarebetween the two Turnstiles, we have already spokenin our chapter on Lincolns Inn Fields. We may,however, add that it was a resort of profligatepersons some two centuries since, and that itscharacter at that time is commemorated in theplays of Shadwell, Dryden, and Wycherley :— Where ladies ply, as many tell us,Like brimstones in a Whetstone , if we may believe Strype, its infamous andvicious inhabitants had been banished previous tothe year 1720. One of the small courts between Lin
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. connecting thoroughfarebetween the two Turnstiles, we have already spokenin our chapter on Lincolns Inn Fields. We may,however, add that it was a resort of profligatepersons some two centuries since, and that itscharacter at that time is commemorated in theplays of Shadwell, Dryden, and Wycherley :— Where ladies ply, as many tell us,Like brimstones in a Whetstone , if we may believe Strype, its infamous andvicious inhabitants had been banished previous tothe year 1720. One of the small courts between Lincolns InnFields and Holborn, near the eastern end of AVhet-stone Park, is called Tichborne Court; over theHolborn entrance are the arms of the Tichbornes,with the date; the last figure is scarcely property came to the Tichborne family earlyin the seventeenth century, by the marriage of\\hite Tichborne, Esq., of Aldershot (grandfatherof the sixth baronet), with Ann, the daughter andheiress of Richard (or James) Supple, Esq., a mem-ber of the Vintners THE ARMS OF TICHBORNE. Among the more celebrated inhabitants of tlieparish of St. Giless are, Andrew Llarvell, whomwe have already mentioned, and the profligateCountess of Shrewsbury, concerning whom HoraceWalpole tells us that she held the horse of Villiers,Duke of Buckingham, while the latter killed herhusband in a duel. Among the old families in St. Giless, Partonnames the Spencers, or De Spencers, after whomthe great ditch which ran along the southern sideof the parish was called Spencers Ditch or Dig. 2l6 OLD AND NEW LONDON. tSt. Giless-in-the-fields. The name of this drain in more recent times wasCock and Pie Ditch. The History of St. Giless-in-the-Fields/ by , contains a variety of curious and interest-ing matter, and we have drawn largely upon it inthese pages. But we have not adopted all his out so minutely as to show each mans possessionin the parish, and every garden-plot delineated, with
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