prits :-"Thomas Jones was taken, who, being brought to Newgate in December following, Jones and Lyne were both executed for this fact. In January following Sames was taken and executed. In April, Foster was taken and executed. Now let's pray God to bless this house from any more of these damages. Amen."

The following extract from the Company's papers, under the date of the 13th of July, 1587, is still more curious:"It is agreed that if any body, which shall at any time hereafter happen to be brought to our hall for the intent to be wrought upon by the anatomists of the Company, shall revive or come to life again, as of late hath been seen, the charges about the same body so reviving shall be borne, levied, and sustained by such person, or persons, who shall so happen to bring home the body; and who further shall abide such order or fine as this house shall award." The last instance, it would appear, of resuscitation in a dissectingroom occurred in the latter part of the last century. The case-related by the late celebrated anatomist, John Hunter -was that of a criminal, whose body had been cut down after execution at Newgate. The operators, it is said, having succeeded in restoring him to the full powers of animation, immediately sent a communication to the Sheriffs, who caused him to be reconveyed to Newgate, whence he was afterwards removed to a foreign country. After his resuscitation, however, he painted a folding screen for the Company which is still preserved in the Court Room.

Before taking leave of Barbers' Hall, we must on no account omit to mention its most interesting feature, the beautiful little Court Room, with its richly-decorated ceiling and its graceful octagonal lantern, the work of Inigo Jones. Here, among the portraits of several eminent persons, is to be seen Holbein's famous picture-the greatest

work painted by that illustrious artist in England-representing Henry the Eighth granting the charter of 1541 to the incorporated society of Barber-Surgeons. In the centre of this fine picture Henry is represented as seated on his throne, gorgeously arrayed in brocade, ermine, and jewels, while on cach side of him are kneeling the members of the Company -eighteen in number-one of whom, Thomas Vycary, the master, is in the act of receiving the Charter from the King's hands. Each figure is a portrait from the life; the most eminent persons being John Chambre, physician to Henry the Eighth and Dean of the Chapel Royal, Westminster; Thomas Vycary, the King's Sergeant-Surgeon; Dr. Butts, immortalized in Shakspeare's play of Henry the Eighth, and Sir John Ayliffe, Sheriff of London, whose story is quaintly told in rhyme on his tomb in St. Michael's Church, Basinghall Street:

"In surgery brought up in youth,

A Knight here lieth dead;

A Knight, and eke a Surgeon, such
As England seld hath bred.

For which so sovereign gift of God,
Wherein he did excel,

King Henry 8. called him to Court,
Who loved him dearly well.

King Edward, for his service sake,
Bade him rise up a Knight;
A man of praise, and ever since
He Sir John Ayliffe hight."

The estimation in which Holbein's great work was held by our ancestors may be judged of by the following letter addressed by James the First to the corporation of BarberSurgeons:

"JAMES R.

Trusty and well-beloved, we greet you well. Whereas

we are informed of a table of painting in your hall, wherein is the picture of our predecessor of famous memory, King Henry the Eighth, together with divers of your Company, which being very like him, and well done, we are desirous to have copied; whereof our pleasure is that you presently deliver it unto this bearer, our well-beloved servant, Sir Lionel Cranfield, Knight, one of our Masters of Requests, whom we have commanded to receive it of you, and see it with all expedition copied and redelivered safely; and so we bid you farewell.

"Given at our Court at Newmarket, the 13th day of January, 1617."*

Holbein's original study or cartoon, containing sketches of the different portraits made by the great artist from the life, is now in the possession of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Among other portraits preserved in the Court Room the most remarkable are a portrait of Inigo Jones by Vandyke, and another of Frances Duchess of Richmond, "la belle Stuart" of De Grammont, by Sir Peter Lely. There are also portraits of Charles the Second; of C. Barnard, Sergeant-Surgeon to Queen Anne, and of the celebrated Sir Charles Scarborough, physician to Charles the Second, who lectured here during nearly seventeen years. He it was who observed to the beautiful Duchess of Ports

Respecting this picture Pepys has the following curious notice in his "Diary," under the date 28th of August, 1668:-"At noon comes by appointment Harris to dine with me: and after dinner he and I to Chyrurgeons' Hall, where they are building it new,--very fine; and there to see their theatre, which stood all the fire, and (which was our business) their great picture of Holbein's, thinking to have bought it, by the help of Mr. Pierce, for a little money. I did think to give £200 for it, it being said to be worth £1000; but it is so spoiled that I have no mind to it, and it is not a pleasant, though a good picture."

mouth, when she consulted him after having indulged for some time rather too freely in the luxuries of the table, "Madam, I will deal frankly with you; you must eat less, use more exercise, take physic, or be sick.'

At the south end of Monkwell Street is Silver Street. Here, from the days of Richard the Second, extending to those of Henry the Sixth, stood "The Neville's Inn," the residence of the Nevilles, Earls of Westmoreland. In 1603 we find it the residence of Henry Lord Windsor, from whom it obtained the denomination of Windsor House. A court in Monkwell Street still retains the name of Windsor Court.

To the north-east of Barbers' Hall is Sion College, originally founded as a hospital in 1329, on the site of a decayed nunnery, by William Elsing, mercer, for the support of a hundred blind men. Elsing subsequently converted it into a Priory, consisting of four canons regular to superintend the blind, he himself being the first prior. By the will of Dr. Thomas White, Vicar of St. Dunstan's in the West, a purchase of the ground was effected, and in 1623 a College, governed by a President, two Deans, and four Assistants, was erected on the site. Sion College, which includes a fine library, is appropriated to the use of the London Clergy, who have under their charge alms-houses for ten poor men and as many poor women.

Running parallel with Monkwell Street is Wood Street, in which the only objects of interest are the two churches dedicated to St. Michael and St. Alban.

St. Michael's, on the west side of Wood Street, must be a foundation of considerable antiquity, inasmuch as we find John de Eppewell mentioned as rector of it so early as the year 1328. The old church having been destroyed by the great fire of 1666, in 1675 the present edifice was completed after designs by Sir Christopher Wren. In this church is

said to have been flung, " among plebeian skulls," the head of the unfortunate James the Fourth of Scotland, who perished on Flodden Field. "His body," writes Pennant, "for a long time had remained embalmed at the monastery at Shene. After the Dissolution, it was cast among some rubbish, where some workmen wantonly cut off the head, which was taken by Young, glazier to Queen Elizabeth, who was struck with its sweetness, arising from the embalming materials. He kept it for some time at his house in Wood Street, but at last gave it to the sexton to bury among other bones in the charnel-house."

St. Alban's, Wood Street, one of the most ancient religious foundations in London, is said to have been founded by King Athelstan about the year 924, at which time it was dedicated by him to St. Alban, the first martyr in England, whose bones, according to Weever and Fuller, having been interred at St. Albans, were the occasion of that town being called by his name. That King Athelstan was the founder of St. Alban's Church is rendered probable from the fact of the Saxon monarch having had a palace in the neighbourhood of Wood Street, from which circumstance it has been conjectured that Adel Street, or King Adel Street, long since corrupted into Addle Street,* derived its name. Stow, however, admits that he was unable to fix the origin of the

name.

In 1632, the old church of St. Alban's, Wood Street, in consequence of its dilapidated state, was taken down and another edifice built on its site after a design by Inigo Jones. This church having been destroyed by the great fire, the present uninteresting building was shortly afterwards commenced by Sir Christopher Wren, and completed in 1685.

In Addle Street are the respective halls of the Brewers' and Plasterers' Companies.