. Walks in London . style, but remodelled as a mongrel Gothicchurch in 1869. In the old church Dryden had beenmarried to Lady Elizabeth Howard, December i, 1663. Built into this church, facing the Station, is the famousLondon Stone, now encased in masonry and only visiblethrough a circular opening wiih an iron grille. It is suj)-posed by Camden to have been a Roman Milliarium—•the central terminus whence all the great Roman roadsradiated over England, and which answered to the Golden • Clarendons Hist, of the Rebellion, ed. 1826, i. 331. * Dugdales Troubles in England, fol. i68i, p. 37. 3io WA
. Walks in London . style, but remodelled as a mongrel Gothicchurch in 1869. In the old church Dryden had beenmarried to Lady Elizabeth Howard, December i, 1663. Built into this church, facing the Station, is the famousLondon Stone, now encased in masonry and only visiblethrough a circular opening wiih an iron grille. It is suj)-posed by Camden to have been a Roman Milliarium—•the central terminus whence all the great Roman roadsradiated over England, and which answered to the Golden • Clarendons Hist, of the Rebellion, ed. 1826, i. 331. * Dugdales Troubles in England, fol. i68i, p. 37. 3io WALKS IN LONDON. Milestone in the Forum at Rome. It is probably now amere fragment of its former self. Stow says, speaking ofWalbrook— «* On the south side of this high street, neere tinto the channell, ispitched upright a great stone, called London Stone, fixed in theground very deep, fastened with bars of iron, and otherwise so stronglieset, that if cartes do runne against it through negligence, the wheeles. London Stone. be broken, and the stone itselfe unshaken. The cause why this stonewas there set, the verie time when, or other memory hereof, is therenone; but that the same hath long continued there, is manifest,namely since, or rather before the time of the Conquest. For in theend of a fayre written Gospell booke, given to Christes Church inCanterburie, by Ethelstane, King of the West Saxons, I find noted oflands or rents in London, belonging to the said Church, whereof oneparcel is described to lye near unto London Stone. Of later time weread that, in the year of Christ 1135, the ist of King Stephen, a fire ST. MARY ABCHURCH, 331 which began in the house of one Ailwarde, neare unto London Stone,consumed all east to Ealdgate . • . and those be ^he eldest notesthat I read thereof. London Stone seems to have been looked upon as a kindof palladium in London, as the Coronation Stone was inScotland. As such, the adventurous Kentish rebel, JackCade, seems to have rega
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