. Walks in London . shed in Puritan times and re-discovered in 1845,viz :— Noah receiving the instructions of the Almighty as to building theArk. Josiah repairing the Temple (his workmen in the costume ofHenry VIH.). Our Lord gathering chips in the workshop of Joseph, who was repre-sented at work, with the Virgin spinning by his side. The Teaching of the child Jesus in the Synagogue. * Is not thisthe carpenters son ? * The first Hall, built by citizens and carpenters ofLondon, was erected in 1428 on land leased in this neigh-bourhood from the Priory of St. Mary Spittal. Passing the ugly Church
. Walks in London . shed in Puritan times and re-discovered in 1845,viz :— Noah receiving the instructions of the Almighty as to building theArk. Josiah repairing the Temple (his workmen in the costume ofHenry VIH.). Our Lord gathering chips in the workshop of Joseph, who was repre-sented at work, with the Virgin spinning by his side. The Teaching of the child Jesus in the Synagogue. * Is not thisthe carpenters son ? * The first Hall, built by citizens and carpenters ofLondon, was erected in 1428 on land leased in this neigh-bourhood from the Priory of St. Mary Spittal. Passing the ugly Church of Allhallows in the Wall, builtin 1765, containing an altar-piece by Dance^ we may enteiBroad Street and turn to the right. AUSTIN FRIARS. 277 Where Broad Street falls into Throgmorton Street a gate-way on the right leads into the quiet courts of AustinJ^riars, occupying the site of a famous Augustinian con-vent founded in 1243 by Humphrey de Bohun, Earl ofHereford and Essex. At the Dissolution it was granted by. In Austin Friars. Henry YUI. to William Paulet, first Marquis of Winchester ;but thcj churchj which was retaine;! for the king, was grantedby Edward VI. to the Dutch nation in London to havetheir service in (as he says in his journal of June 29, 1550)?for avoiding of all sects of Ana-Baptists, and such Dutch still own the building, which has some handsome 179 WALKS IN LONDON, Decorated windows. The tombs in this church—once likea cathedral, the present edifice being only part of the ancientnave—were amongst the most magnificent in London—andit still contains the remains of a vast number of eminentpersons, including Richard Fitz Alan, Earl of Surrey, be-headed in 1397 by Richard II. for joining the leagueagainst Vere and De la Pole; Humphrey de Bohun, god-father of Edward I., who fought in the Battle of Evesham ;Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, who was so powerful inthe reigns of John and Henry III.; Edward, eldest son ofthe Black Prince and of the Fair
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