. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. FRONT OF OLD UKURY LANE iULATRE. Statements, having our confidence in him as atopographer and historian a little shaken by thefact that he gives in it a plan or map of the parishas it was in the thirteenth century—in other words,two centuries and a half, at the least, earlier thanthe map of London by Ralph Aggas, which is theoldest authority known to antiquaries, and fromwhich, it is clear, on a close inspection, that he hasborrowed many of his details. It is, indeed, made feared that he allowed his anti(iuarian zea
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. FRONT OF OLD UKURY LANE iULATRE. Statements, having our confidence in him as atopographer and historian a little shaken by thefact that he gives in it a plan or map of the parishas it was in the thirteenth century—in other words,two centuries and a half, at the least, earlier thanthe map of London by Ralph Aggas, which is theoldest authority known to antiquaries, and fromwhich, it is clear, on a close inspection, that he hasborrowed many of his details. It is, indeed, made feared that he allowed his anti(iuarian zeal to carryhim in this one matter—like Herodotus of old—out of the domain of fact into the airy regions offiction. In other respects, however, he wouldappear to have been a trusty chronicler, and hiswork from first to last is full of interest. We may conclude our notice of St. Giless withthe following paragraph from a publication whichdoes not often mislead, or misrepresent facts:— St. Giless-inthe-Fields.] MASS-HOUSES IN ST. BETTER! PRITCHARD. DRURY LANE MACK LIN. MRS. ROBINSON. 115—Vol. III. 2l8 OLD AND NEW LONDON: tritury Linb ThealrS. As lately as the year 1767, says a writer in theGentlemans Magazine, another mass-house wasdiscovered in Hog Lane, near the Seven Diftls/and the officiating priest was condemned to per-petual imprisonment—simply for saying mass andgiving the communion to a sick person. After fouryears imprisonment his sentence was commutedinto exile for life. At the end of the last century,if not early in the present, Dr. Archer, a well-knownRoman Catholic divine, and the author of several volumes bf sermons, said riiass in the garret of asmall public-house in St. Giless, kept by an Irishman^hd was not asliamed of his religion. This soundsstrange in our ears in the present state of generaltoleration and liberty ; but more than a centurybefore, in 1663, Pepys tecords the fact that apriest was taken in his vestment
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