Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . layers also, then ranking (not,perhaps, quite undeservingly) with these and othersimilar characters, under the common designationof vagabonds, flocked together to the same spot,together with fraudulent bankrupts, swindlers,debtors, and all sorts of persons who had mis-understandings with the law, and were fearful ofclearing them up, lest their goods and their bodiesmight be demanded in expiation. Here in former Southwark.] MESSRS. BARCLAY AND PERKINS BREWERY. 33 years stood the Mint and the Clink ; andhere in the pre
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . layers also, then ranking (not,perhaps, quite undeservingly) with these and othersimilar characters, under the common designationof vagabonds, flocked together to the same spot,together with fraudulent bankrupts, swindlers,debtors, and all sorts of persons who had mis-understandings with the law, and were fearful ofclearing them up, lest their goods and their bodiesmight be demanded in expiation. Here in former Southwark.] MESSRS. BARCLAY AND PERKINS BREWERY. 33 years stood the Mint and the Clink ; andhere in the present day (1840) stands the privilegedKings Bench, within whose Rules are con-gregated the same vicious and demoralised classof people that always inhabited it. Stews alsostill abound, and penny theatres, where the per-formers are indeed vagabonds, and the audiencethieves. Thus wrote Charles Mackay, in hisagreeable work, The Thames and its Tributaries,as lately as 1840. Things, however, have muchimproved since that day; at all events, we mayhope that such has been the - . • HALL OF WIN-CHESTER HOUSE.{From an Etching by Hollar, 1647.) In Deadmans Place, on the south-west side ofthe Borough market, were almshouses for sixteenpoor persons, which were founded in 1584, byThomas Cure, and called Cures College. ThomasCure was saddler to Edward VI., Queen Mary,and Queen Elizabeth, and was also member ofParliament for the borough of Southwark. Another cluster of almshouses close by, in SoapYard, were built and endowed by the retired actor,Edward Alleyn, of whom we shall have more tosay when we come to Dulwich College. Alleynsalmshouses have been rebuilt at Norwood. Alleyndirected by his will (1626) that his executors shouldwithin two years of his death erect ten almshousesin this parish for five poor men and five poorwomen, who should be drafted hence, as vacanciesoccurred, into his college at Dulwich. The alms-houses were accordingly built on part of an en-closure called the So
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