. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. ndred years ago :— Beyond the Bars is the river-side road, called Strand Street. It was sorely in need of pavinguntil lately, when a tax for its repair was levied onall goods carried along it to the Staple at West-minster. Here, many lords, spiritual and temporal,have goodly Inns, of which you can see but two The Strand.] PAST CxLORTES OF THE STRAND. 6i cr three : the Bishop of Exeters close on the left;the Bishop of Baths beyond it; and the Bishop ofChesters, with the old stone cross before it. Atthat cross the Jud
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. ndred years ago :— Beyond the Bars is the river-side road, called Strand Street. It was sorely in need of pavinguntil lately, when a tax for its repair was levied onall goods carried along it to the Staple at West-minster. Here, many lords, spiritual and temporal,have goodly Inns, of which you can see but two The Strand.] PAST CxLORTES OF THE STRAND. 6i cr three : the Bishop of Exeters close on the left;the Bishop of Baths beyond it; and the Bishop ofChesters, with the old stone cross before it. Atthat cross the Judges have sometimes sat to trypleas. The palace which you can just see to the The church among the fields in the distance is Between the Strand and the river-side there arefour or five great and noble families whose namesand histories are interwoven with the vicinity. left is the Savoy, so called from Peter, Count of Nearest to Temple Bar, the Devereuxes, Earls ofSa\oy, who built it in the reign of our Henry HI., Essex ; oext the Howards, of the ducal family of. MILFORI) LANK IN 1520. whose Queen was the Counts niece. Now theDuke of Lancaster is the owner thereof, and John,the captive King of France, lodged there not longsince. The bridge over the lane in the centre ofthe road is called Strand Bridge. On the rightof St. Clement Danes Church you see the wells ofSt. Clement and Holy Well; and, beyond them,the vineyard and convent garden of the Abbey ofWestminster, skirted by the woods of Long III. Norfolk ; then the Protector Somerset, the Cecils,Earls of Salisbury and Exeter, and Villiers, Dukeof Buckingham, to say nothing of the proud lineof Percy, Dukes of Northumberland, who up to1874 have kept up their town residence at CharingCross. About one and all of these in succession weshall have plenty to say in the next few pages. Mr. A. Wood, in his Ecclesiastical Antiquitiesof London, tells us that the Abbot of West- 62 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [The Strand ;
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