. Walks in London . tethe traitor : behead this fellow, and, as he claims my pro-mise, place his head on the highest pinnacle of theTower. Edric was then scorched to death with flamingtorches, his head raised on the highest point of theTower, and his body thrown to the hounds of Houndsditch. This is the Jews quarter—silent on Saturdays, busy oilSundays. Houndsditch has long been a street famous forits brokers. In his Every Man in his Humour BenJonson si:>eaks of a Houndsditch as one of the devilsnear kinsmen, a broker; and Beaumont and Fletcherallude to the brokers of Dogsditch— *<
. Walks in London . tethe traitor : behead this fellow, and, as he claims my pro-mise, place his head on the highest pinnacle of theTower. Edric was then scorched to death with flamingtorches, his head raised on the highest point of theTower, and his body thrown to the hounds of Houndsditch. This is the Jews quarter—silent on Saturdays, busy oilSundays. Houndsditch has long been a street famous forits brokers. In his Every Man in his Humour BenJonson si:>eaks of a Houndsditch as one of the devilsnear kinsmen, a broker; and Beaumont and Fletcherallude to the brokers of Dogsditch— *< IMore knavery and foolery, and trickery-, than Dogsditch. Cutler Street^ on the left, is the ancient cenvre for the cullers. BEVIS MARKS. 319 Dukes Place^ Houndsditch, occupies the site of ChristChurch Priory, founded in 1108 by Queen Maude. It wasgranted at the Dissolution to Sir Ihomas Audiey, LordChancellor. His daughter married Thomas, Duke of Nor-folk (whence the name), and was wont to ride hither. In Bevis Marks. through the city with one hundred horsemen in livery,preceded by four heralds. Holbein died in the Dukeshouse. Behind Houndsditch on the right runs Beids Marks(Burys Marks), from the town-house of the Abbots of Bury 320 WALKS IN LONDON. St. Edmunds, au^nvards granted to Thomas Henea^e thefather, and Sir Thomas Hencnge the son. * On the north side of this street, before the Dissolution,stood the Hospital of the Brotherhood of St. AugustinePapey. Hrre the sign of the tavern of The Blue Pi^^ onlyvery recently removed, was a strange instance of theendurance of the sign of the Blue Boar, the crest ofRichard III., who, as Duke of Gloucester, resided close bym Crosby Hail. • Maitland, ii. 76a. CHAPTER IX. IN THE HEART OF THE CITY. THE labyrinthine but most busy streets which fornn thecentre of the City of London to the south of the RoyalExchange are filled with objects of interest, though of minorinterest, amid which it will be difficult to thread our wa
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