the east side of Bread Street, at the corner of Watling Street, stands, on the site of an edifice of far more ancient date, the church of Allhallows, or All Saints, Bread Street, erected by Wren in 1680. In this church, in 1531, a discreditable quarrel took place between two priests, in which the blood of one was shed by the other; when, in order to purify it from the sacrilege, it was ordered to be closed for the space of a month. In the mean time the two offenders, who had been committed to prison, were led forth, bareheaded, bare-footed, and bare-legged, and, with beads and books in their hands, compelled to do penance by walking from St. Paul's Cathedral along Cheapside and Cornhill, to the eastern limit of the City. In the old church Milton was baptized. In Bread Street, Cheapside, a little below Basing Lane, stands the parish church of St. Mildred, so called from having been dedicated to Mildred, a Saxon saint, daughter of a Prince of West Anglia, and Abbess of a monastery in the Isle of Thanet. The present edifice, the interior of which has been much admired, is another of Sir Christopher Wren's churches, built shortly after the destruction of the old-place of worship in 1666. Its principal feature, however, is its fine altar-piece and its beautifully carved pulpit and sounding-board, which, if they are not the work of Grinling Gibbons, would at least have reflected no discredit upon that eminent artist. Running parallel with, and to the south of Cheapside, is Watling Street, a name, according to Leland, corrupted from Atheling, or Noble Street, so called from its contiguity to the Old Change, where a Mint was established in the reign. of the Saxon Kings. According to other authorities, it derives its name from Adeling, a Saxon nobleman; whence Watheling and Watling. This street forms the site of part of the Roman road which anciently traversed England from Dover to South Wales. At the north-west end of it is the church of St. Augustine, Watling Street, dedicated to St. Augustine, a Roman monk of the order of St. Benedict, who, in 596, was sent to England by the Pope, for the purpose of converting the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. It was anciently styled Ecclesia Sancti Augustini ad Portam, from its vicinity to the south-east gate of St. Paul's Cathedral. The old church having been burnt down in 1666, the present uninteresting edifice was erected in 1682, after designs by Sir Christopher Wren. St. Anthony's, vulgarly called St. Antholin's, Watling Street, is a religious foundation of great antiquity. In 1399, it was rebuilt principally at the expense of Sir Thomas Knowles, Grocer and Lord Mayor, to whose memory there was formerly a monument in the church, with the following quaint inscription : "Here lyeth graven under this stone, And (for he should not lye alone), Here lyeth with him his good wife Joan. They were together sixty year, And nineteen children they had in fear." The tower and spire of this church, though not in the purest style of architecture, have been much admired. Opposite to Old Change, on the north side of Cheapside, is Foster Lane, in which stands the church of St. Vedast, an ancient foundation dedicated to Vedast, Bishop of Arras in the province of Artois about the close of the fifth or the commencement of the sixth century. The old church having been burnt down in 1666, the present edifice was erected by Wren between the years 1694 and 1698. St. Vedast's Church, with its graceful spire and its panelled roof richly decorated with imitations of fruits and flowers, and its magnificent altar-piece, is well worthy of a visit. In Foster Lane stands that noble modern edifice, the Goldsmiths' Hall; while in Noble Street, Foster Lane, is the Coachmakers' Hall, interesting as having been the spot in which the Protestant Association held its meetings previously to the breaking out of the disgraceful riots of 1780. In the Goldsmiths' Hall are three busts, by Chantrey, of George the Third, George the Fourth, and William the Fourth; as also some well-executed portraits of our modern. sovereigns, and an original portrait, by Jansen, of Sir Hugh Myddelton. At the west end of Cheapside, at the end of Paternoster Row, stood, till 1666, the ancient parish church of St. Michael le Querne, or St. Michael at the Corn Market. Having been burnt down in the great fire, the site of it was appropriated to enlarge the great thoroughfare of Cheapside; the parish at the same time being incorporated by act of Parliament with that of St. Vedast, Foster Lane. In the parish of St. Michael le Querne the celebrated antiquary, John Leland, long carried on his laborious literary pursuits, and here, on the 18th of April, 1552, he breathed his last. He was interred in St. Michael's Church, as was also Francis Quarles, the author of the "Emblems." Sir Thomas Browne, author of the famous "Religio Medici," and of the "Treatise on Vulgar Errors," was baptized in this church. NEIGHBOURHOOD OF ST. PAUL'S. OLD CHURCH OF ST. MARTIN'S-LE-GRAND.-ABUSE OF PRIVILEGE OF SANCTUARY THERE. NORTHUMBERLAND HOUSE.-ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD A RESIDENCE OF PUBLISHERS.-BURNING OF BOOKS THERE DURING THE GREAT FIRE.-EXECUTION OF SIR EVERARD DIGBY.-QUEEN ANNE.-PATERNOSTER ROW.-LOVELL'S COURT.-WARWICK LANE.-ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON.-ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL.-HERALDS' COLLEGE.-DOCTORS' COMMONS.-LUDGATE HILL. -THE BELLE SAUVAGE."-NELL GWYNN.-ST. MARTIN, LUDGATE. A 66 T the western extremity of Cheapside, close to St. Paul's Cathedral, runs northward the street called St. Martin's-le-Grand, so styled from the famous church and sanctuary which anciently occupied the site of the present General Post Office. A collegiate church, dedicated to St. Martin, is said to have been founded on this spot by Wythred, King of Kent, as far back as 700; the epithet of “le-Grand" having been derived from the extraordinary privileges of sanctuary conferred upon it by successive monarchs. The old monastery and church were rebuilt about the year 1056 by two brothers of a noble Saxon family, named Ingelric and Edward, at which period the religious establishment consisted of a dean and several secular canons. In 1068, William the Conqueror not only confirmed to the college all its ancient privileges, but moreover rendered it independent of all other ecclesiastical jurisdiction whatsoever, whether regal or papal. Thus an isolated spot, in the centre of a large city, grew to acquire a peculiar government of its own, subject in the first instance to the collegiate Dean, and, at a later period, to the Abbots of Westminster, to whom Henry the Seventh thought proper to transfer the jurisdiction. In consequence of the extraordinary immunities which it enjoyed as a sanctuary, St. Martin's-le-Grand became not only a place of refuge for every description of criminal and miscreant, but in periods of political convulsion we find the rioters, when defeated by the City train-bands, safely establishing themselves within the liberty of St. Martin's, and setting all law and authority at defiance. At length, during the tumults and convulsions which prevailed in 1456, the repeated outrages committed by the inhabitants of this privileged district had so entirely exhausted the patience of the respectable portion of the community, that the magistrates took upon themselves the responsibility of forcing an entrance into the monastic territory with an armed force, and succeeded in capturing the principal rioters. The Abbot of Westminster vehemently inveighed against this violation of the rights of the Church, but apparently to little purpose. On the romantic occasion of Richard Duke of Gloucester discovering his future Queen, Anne Neville, in an obscure street in London disguised as a serving-maid, it was to the sanctuary of St. Martin's-le-Grand that he conducted her, where she remained in security till taken under the protection of her uncle, George Neville, Archbishop of York. Here, too, according to Sir Thomas More," rotted away piecemeal" Miles Forest, one of the reputed murderers of the two young Princes in the Tower. The magnificent church of St. Martin's-le-Grand was pulled down at the surrender of the monastery to Edward the Sixth, in 1548, shortly after which period a large tavern was erected on its site. This church-as well as those of St. Mary-le-Bow, St. Giles's Cripplegate, and Allhallows Barking—had, for |