tion is to the memory of Constance Whitney, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Whitney, and grand-daughter of Sir Thomas Lucy, who died at the age of seventeen; excelling, as her epitaph informs us, "in all noble qualities becominge a virgin of so sweet proportion of beauty and harmonie of parts."

In the church also lies, though without any stone to mark his resting-place, that gallant knight, Sir Martin Frobisher, whose name is so intimately connected with the destruction of the Spanish Armada and the fortunes of Sir Walter Raleigh. It has generally been supposed that after he received his death-wound near Brest, his body was conveyed to Plymouth and interred at that place. There can be no question, however, as to his having been buried in St. Giles's Church, his name appearing in the register of burials under the date 14th of January, 1594-5.

Another eminent person buried in this church, but without a monument, is William Bulleyn, physician to Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, and unquestionably one of the most learned men of his time. Dr. Bulleyn, who was the author of several medical works, died on the 7th of January, 1576.

But the most illustrious person who lies buried in St. Giles's Church is the author of "Paradise Lost." "He lies buried," writes Aubrey, "in St. Giles's, Cripplegate, upper end of the chancel, at the right hand: Mem., his stone is now removed about two years since the two steps to the Communion-table were raised. Speed and he lie together." In the parish register, among the entry of burials on the 12th of November, 1674, are the words,-" John Milton, gentleman, consumption, chancel." In 1790, the grave of the poet was opened and his remains said to have been desecrated, which provoked some indignant verses from Cowper.

"Ill fare the hands that heaved the stones
Where Milton's ashes lay,

That trembled not to grasp his bones,
And steal his dust away!

"O, ill-requited bard! neglect
Thy living worth repaid,
And blind idolatrous respect

As much affronts thee dead!"

The story is, however, apocryphal. For nearly one hundred and twenty years the grave of the immortal poet remained without a memorial of his resting-place, till, in 1793, Mr. Whitbread erected a bust with an inscription near the spot where he was buried. The bust, now standing at the east end of the south aisle, on a monument erected by subscription in 1862, is by the elder Bacon, and the inscription is as follows:

"JOHN MILTON,

Author of Paradise Lost,

Born Dec. 1608.

Died Nov. 1674.

His father, John Milton, died March, 1646.
They were both interred in this church.

Samuel Whitbread posuit, 179 3."

To two other monuments only in this church does it seem necessary to call attention; the one for the sake of its touching simplicity, and the other on account of its quaintness. The former, a small tablet of white marble within the rails of the Communion-table, bears on it the following simple but touching inscription:

"Here lies Margarett Lucy, the second daughter of Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlcott in the county of Warwicke, Knight (the third by imediate discent of the name of Thomas) by Alice, sole daughter and heire of Thomas Spenser of Clarenden, in the same county, Esq., and Custos Brevium of the Courte of Comon Pleas at Westminster, who departed this life the 18th day of November, 1634, and aboute the 19th year of her age. For discre

tion and sweetnesse of conversation, not many excelled; and for pietie and patience in her sicknesse and death, few equalled her; which is the comforte of her nearest friendes, to every of whom shee was very dear; but especiallie to her old Grandmother, the Lady Constance Lucy, under whose government shee died, who, having long exspected every day to have gone before her, doth now trust, by faith and hope in the precious Bloode of Christ Jesus, shortly to follow after, and be partaker, together with her and others, of the unspeakeable and eternall joyes in His blessed Kingdome; to whom be all honour, laude, and praise, now and ever, Amen."

The other monument referred to is to the memory of Thomas Busby, "Citizen and Cooper," who died on the 11th of July, 1575. The figure of the deceased is represented holding in one hand a skull and in the other a pair of gloves, while beneath is the following inscription :—

"This Busbie, willing to reeleve the poore with fire and with breade,

Did give that howse whearein he dyed, then called the Queenes Heade.
Foure full loades of the best charcoales he would have bought ech yeare;
And fortie dosen of wheaten bread for poor howsholders heare.

To see these thinges distributed, this Busbie put in trust
The Vicar and Churchwardenes, thinking them to be just.

God grant that poor howsholders here may thankful be for such;
So God will move the mindes of moe to doe for them as much.
And let this good example move such men as God hath blessed,
To doe the like, before they goe with Busbie to there rest.

Within this chappell Busbies bones in dust awhile must stay;
Till He that made them rayse them up to live with Christ for aye."

It was at the altar of St. Giles's Church that Oliver Cromwell was married, on the 20th of August, 1620, to Elizabeth Bowchier, who became the mother of his numerous children, and the sharer of his greatness.

The ground which surrounds St. Giles's is scarcely less classical and interesting than the old church itself. Immediately adjoining it is Monkwell Street, deriving its name partly from a well which anciently existed on its site, and partly from the small hermitage or chapel of "St. James in

the Wall," inhabited by a hermit and two monks belonging to the Cistercian Abbey of Garadon. In this street stands what is left of Barber-Surgeons' Hall; an institution vividly reminding us of old customs and old times, when the art of surgery and of shaving went hand-in-hand in England. Over the entrance may be seen the arms of the Company, in which three razors form not the least conspicuous objects in the shield.

The united Company of Barbers and Surgeons were first incorporated by Edward the Fourth in 1461-2, at which time, if we may judge from their petitioning to be distinguished by the style and title of the "Mystery of Barbers," the Barbers would seem to have had the precedency. The leading barber-surgeons through whose immediate influence the charter was obtained from the king, were Thomas Monestede, Sheriff of London in 1436, and chirurgeon to Kings Henry the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth; Jaques Fries, physician to Edward the Fourth, and William Hobbs, “physician and chirurgeon for the same king's body."

It is not till the fifth year of the reign of Henry the Eighth that we find the barbers and surgeons recognized as separate mysteries or crafts. And even then the separation did not last long. In 1541 the two companies were again incorporated in one company, by the name of “ the Master or Governors of the Mystery or Commonalty of Barbers and Chirurgeons of the City of London," and a few years afterwards were again separated. It was not, however, till the year 1745 that the two crafts were formally and finally disjoined by Act of Parliament, when the barbers, as the more ancient body of the two, were allowed to retain possession of the old hall in Monkwell Street.

Barber-Surgeons' Hall- or rather such part of it as escaped the great fire of London-was built by Inigo Jones

in 1636, on the site of a more ancient building belonging to the Company. Formerly, the most beautiful part of Inigo Jones' structure was the Theatre of Anatomy, which Walpole speaks of as one of "his best works," but which was pulled down by the barbers on their separation from the surgeons, and sold for the value of its materials. A small courtyard led at once into the hall of the company; an apartment simple in its style of architecture and well-proportioned, but which was rendered somewhat cheerless from the gloomylooking pictures on anatomical subjects which were suspended on its walls. The most curious feature in the hall was the semi-circular shape of the upper or west end; this part, in fact, consisting of the interior of a bastion of the old Roman wall, which the architect had ingeniously contrived to incorporate with the building. The hall, however, has disappeared within a few years, and its site is now occupied by lofty warehouses. Notwithstanding this, there is much that is interesting in the present building.

In the possession of the Barbers' Company are preserved some very curious and ancient articles of plate which have at different periods been presented to them. Among these is a cup, silver-gilt, ornamented with small pendent bells, presented by Henry the Eighth; also a cup, with acorns pendent from it, given by Charles the Second, who himself was no mean proficient in anatomy; and a large bowl, the gift of Queen Anne. In the reign of James the First the Company, it appears, very nearly lost the whole of their plate through a successful robbery. The thieves were four men, of the names of Jones, Lyne, Sames, and Foster, of whom the former confessed his guilt, when, in consequence of information which he gave, the plate was recovered. In the books of the Company, for November, 1616, is the following matter-of-fact entry recording the fate of the cul