. Walks in London . eet leads into Goswell (Godes-well) Road,to the right of which Old Street leads eastwards. ** The oldest way in or about London is perhaps that which bearethe names of Old Street, Old Street Road, and (further eastward) theRoman Road, leading to Old Ford; probably a British way and fordover the Lea, and older than London itself—forming the original com-munication between the eastern and western counties north of theThames.—Archceologia, xli. The whole of this neighbourhood teems with associationsof Milton, who lived in a pretty garden house in Aiders-gate Street after his r
. Walks in London . eet leads into Goswell (Godes-well) Road,to the right of which Old Street leads eastwards. ** The oldest way in or about London is perhaps that which bearethe names of Old Street, Old Street Road, and (further eastward) theRoman Road, leading to Old Ford; probably a British way and fordover the Lea, and older than London itself—forming the original com-munication between the eastern and western counties north of theThames.—Archceologia, xli. The whole of this neighbourhood teems with associationsof Milton, who lived in a pretty garden house in Aiders-gate Street after his removal from St. Brides 1661 he went to live in Jewin Street {on the right ofAldersgate, formerly the Jews* Garden and the only place JEWIN STREET. 267 where Jews had a right to bury before the reign of HenryII.). It was here that Milton, who had already been blmdfor ten years, married his third wife, Elizabeth, daughter ofSir Edward Minshul, of a Cheshire family, in 1664, the yearbefore the Plague,. Shakspeares House, Aldersgate. Here, in his blindness, he gave instruction by ear toEllwood the Quaker in the foreign pronunciation of Latin,which he aptly said was the only way in which he couldbenefit by Latin in conversation with foreigners. It wasthis Ellwood who, when the Plague broke out in 1665, gaveMilton the cottage-refuge at Chalfont St. Giles, in which he 268 M^ALKS IN LONDON. wrote his Paradise Regained. He returned to Londonto reside in Bunhill Fields in 1666, and there, on Nov. 8,1674, he died, and was attended to the grave, says Toland{1698), by all his learned and great friends in London,not without a friendly concourse of the vulgar. Jewin Street leads into Cripplegate, so called, says Mait-
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