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CHAPTER I.

chief things of the ancient mounAmong the tains and the precious things of the lasting hills " preserved in the British Museum is a certain rudely chipped flint, which once formed part of Sir Hans Sloane's collections, bequeathed by him to the nation at his death in 1752. In the Sloane Catalogue it is thus described :

"No. 246. A British weapon, found with elephant's tooth, opposite to black Mary's near Grayes inn laneConyers. It is a large black flint, shaped into the figure of a spear's point, K."

The references to "Conyers" and "K." are, fortunately, fully explained in a letter on London antiquities written by Mr. John Bagford to Thomas Hearne, the antiquary, and printed among the introductory matter to Hearne's edition of Leland's 'Collectanea.' The whole passage runs

thus:

cary formerly living in Fleet-Street, who made it his chief Business to make curious Observations, and to collect such Antiquities as were daily found in and about London. His Character is very well known, and therefore I will not attempt it. Yet this I must note that he was at great Expence in prosecuting his Discoveries, and that he is remembered with respect by most of our Antiquaries that are now living. Tis this very Gentleman that discovered the Body of an Elephant, as he was digging for Gravel in a Field near to the sign of Sir John Old-Castle in the Fields, not far from Battlebridge, and near to the River of Wells, which tho' now dryed up was a considerable River in the time of the Romans. How this Elephant came there? is the Question. I know some will have it to have layn there ever since the Universal Deluge. For my own part I take it to have been brought over with many others by the Romans in the Reign of Claudius the Emperour, and conjecture (for a liberty of guessing may be indulged to me as well as to others that maintain different Hypotheses) that it was killed in some Fight by a Britain. For not far from the Place where it was found, a British Weapon made of a Flint Lance like unto the Head of a Spear, fastned into a Shaft of a good Length, which was a Weapon very common amongst the Ancient Britains, was also dug up, they having not at that time the use of Iron or Brass, as the Romans had. This conjecture, perhaps, may seem odd to some; but I am satisfied my self, having often viewed this Flint Weapon, which was once in the Possession of that Generous Patron of Learning, the Reverend and very Worthy Dr. Charlett, Master of University College, and is now preserved amongst the curious Collections of Mr. John Kemp, from whence I have thought fit to send you the exact Form and Bigness of it [a coarse woodcut of the flint occupies the next page]. This discovery was made in the presence of the foresaid Mr. Conyers, and I remember that formerly many such bones were shown for Giants-Bones, particularly one in the Church of Aldermanbury which was hung in a Chain on a Pillar of the Church; and such another was kept in St. Laurence's Church, much of the same Bigness. All which bones were publickly to be seen before the dreadful Fire of London, as it appears to me from the Chronicles of Stow, Grafton, Munday, &c."*

Who or what the "black Mary" referred to in the Sloane catalogue may have been I know not; but although she has long since been topographically dead and buried, her silent ghost still perpetually revisits its former haunts. In Cary's map of London in 1792 "Black Mary's Hole" appears as part of an unnamed continuation of Coppice Row, immediately before it passes Bagnigge Wells, a spot identifiable in the London of to-day as that part of Cross Street fronting the Clerkenwell House of Correction. "Black Maria" for at least some five-and-twenty years has been a favourite London synonym for a prison van, and it seems difficult to avoid the conclusion that the first vehicle to which the name was applied was the one which conveyed its duly qualified passengers to this establishment at Clerkenwell, situated exactly

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opposite black Mary's." I note here, moreover, two other etymologies. The House of Correction is known to its frequenters as "The Steel," a fact

*Leland's Collectanea,' Hearne, second ed., vol. i.

"And here I cannot forget to mention the honest Industry of my old Friend Mr. John Conyers, an Apothe- p. Ixiii.

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