. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. ardens stretched behind them to St. BlemundsDyke. In Ralph Aggas map it figures as a smallvillage, or rather a small group of cottages, withtheir respective garden-plots nestling around thewalls of the hospital, In 1541 an Act of Par- Oldcastle, who afterwards was executed on the spot,being hung in chains over a slow fire. In the days of EHzabeth it was not so easyeither for lepers or for ordinary people to find theirway from St. Giless to St. Jamess, as there wereno continuous rows of houses in that south-westdirec
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. ardens stretched behind them to St. BlemundsDyke. In Ralph Aggas map it figures as a smallvillage, or rather a small group of cottages, withtheir respective garden-plots nestling around thewalls of the hospital, In 1541 an Act of Par- Oldcastle, who afterwards was executed on the spot,being hung in chains over a slow fire. In the days of EHzabeth it was not so easyeither for lepers or for ordinary people to find theirway from St. Giless to St. Jamess, as there wereno continuous rows of houses in that south-westdirection. But at the point where Tottenhami Court Road now intersects Oxford Street, there wasa notice, at the top of a narrow lane running acrosswhere is now Soho, The Road to Reading. It led,however, by a somewhat singular bend, no furtherthan the top of the Haymarkct and a narrow laneparallel to it, which bore the rural name of HedgeLane, not far from the corner of Leicester first era of building began a little before St. Giless-in-the-Fields.] OLD ST. GILESS. 199. VIEWS IN THE ROOKERY, ST. GILESS. OLD AND NEW LONDON. [St. Giloss-in-the-Ficlds. 1600, at which date Holborn and St. Giless werenearly connected together. On the w^all of thehospital being pulled down, houses began to bebuilt on the east, Avest, and south sides of thechurch, and on both sides of St. Giless Street newdwellings multiplied. Ten years later saw thecommencement of Great Queen Street, and a con-tinuation of the houses down both sides of DruryLane. And so great was the increase that in 1623no less than 897 houses were rated. Indeed, inElizabeths time, the parish was very largely builton, and distinguished by the rank of its inhabitants.(Both Elizabeth and James, it will be remembered,forbade building in the suburbs.) At the end ofCharles ILs reign there were more than 2,000;in Annes, more than 3,000; in 1812, nearly 5,000houses rated in the parish books. A second great era of building came in with
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