. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. Grays-mn-lane; the Savoy, in the Strand, and Montague-close,Deadmans-place ; the Clink, and the Mint, in Southwark. Throughthe neglect of the police, the Mint re-assumed its former character,and that with increased profligacy; nor was it finally suppressedtill the reign of George I. The sanctuary in Westminster was a structure of immense Stukeley, who wrote about the year 1724,* saw it standing,and says that it was with very great difficulty demolished. Thechurch belonging to it was in the form of
. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. Grays-mn-lane; the Savoy, in the Strand, and Montague-close,Deadmans-place ; the Clink, and the Mint, in Southwark. Throughthe neglect of the police, the Mint re-assumed its former character,and that with increased profligacy; nor was it finally suppressedtill the reign of George I. The sanctuary in Westminster was a structure of immense Stukeley, who wrote about the year 1724,* saw it standing,and says that it was with very great difficulty demolished. Thechurch belonging to it was in the form of a cross, ana double, onebeing built over the other. It is supposed to have been the work ofEdward the There were two sanctuaries, the great and the little, or rather,perhaps, two branches of the same institution. At the west end of the latter, in the time of Maitland, (1756)there were remains of a prodigious strong stone building of two hun- • Itinerarium Curiosum. Fig. 2, The Rerestry. t Fig. 1. in the annexed plate is the Fig. 3. The Record Room. Sacristans
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