. London . gal. S JOHN bunyans meeting-house in zoar street just north of the City. Very happily these fields, which hadlong been a swamp or fen intersected by ditches, a place ofpasture, kennels, and windmills, had been drained by theCity in 1606, and were now laid out in pleasant walks, aplace of resort for summer evenings, a wrestling and cudgelplaying ground, and a ground for the muster of the they set up tents and cottages ; here they presentlybegan to build two-storeyed houses of brick. As they had no churches they set up tabernacles, whetheron the site of the old churches o
. London . gal. S JOHN bunyans meeting-house in zoar street just north of the City. Very happily these fields, which hadlong been a swamp or fen intersected by ditches, a place ofpasture, kennels, and windmills, had been drained by theCity in 1606, and were now laid out in pleasant walks, aplace of resort for summer evenings, a wrestling and cudgelplaying ground, and a ground for the muster of the they set up tents and cottages ; here they presentlybegan to build two-storeyed houses of brick. As they had no churches they set up tabernacles, whetheron the site of the old churches or in Moorfields docs not 312 /.ihV/HhV appear. As they had no Exchange they used Grcsham Collegefor the purpose ; the same place did duty for the Guildhall ;the Excise Office was removed to Southampton Fields, nearlVdford House ; the General Post Office was taken to BrydgesStreet, Covent Garden ; the Custom House to Mark Lane ;Doctors Commons to Exeter House, Strand. The part ofthe town wanted for the shipping a
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