. A wanderer in London. ual, for it was from its steps that a nosegaywas presented to every traveller to that Tyburn from whichnone returned. Our church has fifteenth-century masonry in it, butfor the most part is seventeenth, having been destroyedby the Great Fire. St. Sepulchres was indeed that de-stroyers last ecclesiastical victim, for a few yards fartherup Giltspur Street, at Pie Corner, it died away and wasno more, having raged all the way from Pudding Laneby the Monument. Pie Corner was just by Cock Lane,the scene, in 1762, of the most ridiculous imposture whichever laid London by the h
. A wanderer in London. ual, for it was from its steps that a nosegaywas presented to every traveller to that Tyburn from whichnone returned. Our church has fifteenth-century masonry in it, butfor the most part is seventeenth, having been destroyedby the Great Fire. St. Sepulchres was indeed that de-stroyers last ecclesiastical victim, for a few yards fartherup Giltspur Street, at Pie Corner, it died away and wasno more, having raged all the way from Pudding Laneby the Monument. Pie Corner was just by Cock Lane,the scene, in 1762, of the most ridiculous imposture whichever laid London by the heels — the Cock Lane last I stood looking down this lane, which nowbelongs almost entirely to commerce, a catsmeat manwent by, pushing a barrow and calling his wares, and itseemed he must have walked straight out of one of Ho-garths pictures. I have said in an earlier chapter that Shepherds Marketin Mayfair gives one the best impression at this momentof the busy shopkeeping London of the Augustan >A1M AFTKK THK TK TIKK IJY VM VKKoNKHK IN THE NATIONAL (1AI,I,KKY BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT 157 The best idea of a London of an earlier time that stillremains, is I think to be found in Cloth Fair and Bar-tholomew Close, where sixteenth-century houses still stand,and sixteenth-century narrownesses and dirt are every-where. If there is the true old London anj^here, it isin the passages on the north side of St. Bartholomew theGreat. But before we reach Bartholomew Close we must passSt. Bartholomews Hospital, or Barts as it is called, on thesouth side of Smithfield, one of Londons great temples ofhealing. Its square in summer is quite a little park, withits patients taking the air and the children playing amongthem, and there is always a bustle of students and nursesand waiting-maids, crossing and re-crossing from one greybuilding to another. The way to Bartholomew Close is through the hospitalto Little Britain, and so into this ramifying old-worldregi
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