South London . are the churches of Bermondsey and Rotherhithe, notto speak of Deptford: on the west is Lambeth Church: onthe south are the churches of Newington and for other institutions, there are the two great hospitalsSt. Thomass and Guys almost side by side : and there arethe prisons, that of the Kings Bench, the Marshalsea and theWhite Lyon. They were all on the east side of the streetuntil 1756, when the Kings Bench Prison was removed acrossthe road nearly opposite to St. Georges. Some time afterthe Marshalsea was moved further south on the site of the oldWhite Lyon and in
South London . are the churches of Bermondsey and Rotherhithe, notto speak of Deptford: on the west is Lambeth Church: onthe south are the churches of Newington and for other institutions, there are the two great hospitalsSt. Thomass and Guys almost side by side : and there arethe prisons, that of the Kings Bench, the Marshalsea and theWhite Lyon. They were all on the east side of the streetuntil 1756, when the Kings Bench Prison was removed acrossthe road nearly opposite to St. Georges. Some time afterthe Marshalsea was moved further south on the site of the oldWhite Lyon and including that ancient Clink. The old IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 249 Clink on Bankside had vanished. But the Borough Compterwas still flourishing—a grimy, filthy, fever-stricken place. At the back of the houses and narrow streets to east andwest, the fields began with open ditches or sewers and sluggishstreams. Snows Fields on the east were as well known asSt. Georges in the West. Long Lane ran from St. Georges. OLD HOUSE, STONEY STREET, SOUTHWARK to Bermondsey Church: it contained a few houses: Ber-mondsey Lane, commonly called Barmsie, ran from the oldcross to the same church : it was already a street of most crowded part of Southwark proper was the streetcalled Tooley or St. Olaves, the most ancient street in theBorough, originally built upon the Embankment, the Thames 250 SOUTH LONDON Street of South London. Here, in the eighteenth century,there were no vestiges left of the former palaces: every-thing had gone except a crypt or a vault: at every step onecame upon the entrance to a court, narrow, mean and squalid :these courts remain, also narrow, mean and squalid, to thepresent day. There were no places in London, unless in the iHri -^t/n^ -:;=^-^-£n?aii?i==>^-^
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