those that are not pay about 4s. per week, but not always certain. They sell their chambers for one life, and have mootings.

The hall is built in imitation of the Gothic stile, and is a plain, unadorned structure, except some armorial bearings in the windows.

It was here that judge Hale, Sir Orlando Bridgeman, and other judges, sat to determine causes between claimants, after the great fire in 1666.

Clifford's Inn has three courts, and a pleasant garden; whence a gateway leads to FETTer Lane.

In this part of the lane lived PRAISE-GOD BAREBONE, "who, by occupation a leather-seller, was one of the most active, if not the most able members of the parliament assembled in 1653 by Cromwell, called Barebone's Parliament. When general Monck came to London with a view of restoring the king, and was intent upon the re-admission of the secluded members, this man appeared at the head of a numerous rabble of fanatics, which was alarming even to that intrepid general. A petition was presented by their leader to the parliament, for the exclusion of the king and royal family. Monck, who knew the popularity of Barebone, was obliged to make a general muster of his army, and wrote a letter to the parliament, in which he expostu lated with them for giving too much countenance to that furious zealot and his adherents."*

In Flower-de-luce Court, during the year 1767, was perpetrated a deliberate and horrid murder by Elizabeth Brownrigg, against a Foundling apprentice, named Mary Clifford; for which she was executed at Tyburn.

Fetter Lane contains three places of worship of different persuasions; a meeting house for Independents; another for Anabaptists; and the chapel of the UNITED BRETHREN, or

Granger. Mr. Malcolm informs us that the house of Barebone, of which he was an inhabitant twenty-five years, was rented by him at 401. per annum (except during the war); and his tithes were thirteen shilfings and eight-pence. Lond. Rediviv. III. 453. 、

MORAVIANS*. This was the meeting house of the eminent THOMAS BRADBURY, during the reigns of queen Anne, &c. and was demolished by the mob. Mr. Bradbury escaped with great difficulty.

It appears by the parish register of St. Bride's, that only sixteen houses were standing in the broad place by NEW

"The Moravians are supposed to have arisen under Nicholas Lewis, count of Zinzendorf. a German nobleman, who died 1760. They were also called Hernhuters, from Hernhuth, the name of the village where they were first settled. The followers of count Zinzendorf are called Moravians, because the first converts to his system were some Moravian families. The society themselves however assert, that they are descended from the old Moravian and Bohemian brethren, who existed as a distinct sect sixty years prior to the reformation. They also stile themselves Unitas Fratrum, or the United Brethren; and, in general, profess to adhere to the Augsburgh confession of faith. When the first reformers were assembled at Augsburgh in Germany, the Protestant princes employed Melancthon, a divine of great learning and moderation, to draw up a confession of their faith, expressive in terms as little offensive to the Roman Catholics as a regard for truth would permit. And this creed, from the place where it was presented, is called the "Confession of Augsburgh." It is not easy to unravel the leading tenets of the Moravians. Opinions and practices have been attributed to them of an exceptionable nature, which the more sensible of them totally disavow. They direct their worship to Jesus Christ; are much attached to instrumental as well as vocal music in their religious services; and discover a great predilection for forming themselves into classes, according to sex, age, and character. Their founder not only discovered his zeal in travelling in person over Europe, but has taken special care to send missionaries into almost every part of the known world. They revive their devotion by celebrating agapæ, or love feasts, and the casting of lots is used amongst them to know the will of the Lord. The sole right of contracting marriage lies with the elders. In Mr. La Trobe's edition of Spangenburgh's exposition of Christian doctrine, their principles are detailed to a considerable length. There is a large community of them at a village near Leeds, which excites the curiosty of the traveller; and they have places of worship in various parts of the kingdom. Mr. Rimius published his candid narrative of this people, and bishop Lavington (who wrote also against the Methodists) replied, in 1755, in his Moravians, compared and detected. Mr. Weld, in his Travels through the United States, gives a curious account of a Settlement of Moravians at Bethlehem, honourable to their virtue and piety."-Evans's Sketch of Religious Opinions.

STREET,

STREET, after the fire in 1666. Of these there remains one in Nevill's Court, and another adjoining in New Street Square; constructed with all the inconvenience of the age of queen Elizabeth. There are also in Fetter Lane, towards Holborn, other houses of the same age and construction.

The Plough, a messuage and tenement in Fetter Lane, with a garden, barn, and other houses, offices, &c. were given to support a guild or fraternity of St. Sithe, or Osyth, in the parish church of St. Andrew. This coming to the crown in the reign of Edward VI. by virtue of the act for the dissolution of chantries, that monarch granted it to Thomas Bartlet, the king's printer, and Richard Mody. The site is now occupied by PLOUGH COURT.

This was antiently a resort for idle and disorderly per sons, called Fewterers, " as in a way," says Stow, "leading to gardens. But the same is now of later years, on both sides, built through with many fair houses."

BARNARD'S INN, is called in the record the second inn of Chancery; and was originally denominated MACKWORTH'S INN, as having been the residence of Dr. John Mackworth, dean of Lincoln, in the reign of Henry VI. Thomas Atkins, one of his executors, in the thirty-second year of the same reign, gave it to the dean and chapter of Lincoln, and their successors for ever, to find a chaplain to celebrate Divine service in the chapel of St. George, within the cathedral church of Lincoln, where the body of dean Mackworth was buried. Having been leased, however, by a gentleman named Lionel Barnard, his name has been substituted instead of the former.

There is nothing peculiarly worthy notice in the Hall, except a portrait of CHARLES II. judge HOLT, and other eminent persons, principals of this inn.

In the thirty-second of Henry VI. a tumult between the gentlemen of the inns of court, and Chancery, and the citizens of London, arose in Fleet Street, in which much mischief was done. The consequence was, that the principals of Clifford's Inn, Furnival's Inn, and Barnard's Inn, were sent prisoners to Hertford Castle.

Adjoining

Adjoining to this inn, in Holborn, are the extensive premises of Messrs. Langdale, distillers.

Dyer's Buildings, were so called from Sir John Dyer, bart. whose house occupied the site.

CASTLE YARD, now Castle Street, in 1619, was the residence of THOMAS HOWARD, earl of ARUNDEL. This nobleman acquired in Italy an elegant, taste for painting and architecture; and above all for antient statues, He employed collectors in most parts of Europe; and sent even into Greece, whence he received several valuable fragments of antiquity. He was the first of his countrymen that introduced uniformity of building, and is esteemed the father of virtù in England. He died in Italy, September

14, 1646.

STAPLE INN, was so called from being formerly a hall where wool merchants used to meet, wool being one of the four staple commodities according to statutes.

It appears to have been an inn of Chancery anno 1415, and was held by lease, and the inheritance granted by John Knighton, and Alice his wife, to the antients of Gray's Inn, about twenty Henry VIII. by the name of all that messuage or inn of Chancery commonly called Staple Inn, &c.

It is governed by one principal and eleven antients. Those of this house are one week in commons every Term, but there are usually fifty for a fortnight. Here are no mootings, and the chambers are commonly sold for one life.

The hall is a small, but handsome building, something in the stile of the Temple; and, as well as the front of the inn, in Holborn, of the stile of architecture prevailing in the reigns of Elizabeth, and James I.

It is adorned with the portraits of Charles II. queen Anne, earl of Macclesfield, lord chancellor Cowper, and lord Camden.

This inn consists of two courts kept very clean, and a small, but pleasant garden.

We now approach one of the greatest nuisances belonging to London, which is a projection of dirty, unsightly buildings, denominated MIDDle Row. Were it not for

this,

this, and two other equally obnoxious obstructions, Holborn would be one of the most handsome and spacious streets in the city and liberties; but at present the projections complained of for many years, are as dangerous in case of fire, as they are ungrateful to the eye. Their removal would be a common benefit.

Mr. Gwynn, in his "London and Westminster Improved," sanctions the opinion we have given, in the following words: "It will be no easy task for the observer to Clerkenwell Green to ascend Mutton Lane, and proceed to Baldwin's Gardens, a desolated spot, through the ruins of which, if he escapes without hurt, he may reach Gray's Inn Lane, one of the principal avenues to this metropolis, which is despicable beyond conception: from thence he may hobble into Holborn, where the first object that presents itself to view is Middle Row, a nuisance universally detested, and for that reason, and the narrow consideration of private property, suffered to remain a public disgrace to the finest street in London."

Having escaped through the narrow passage of Middle Row, the King's Head Tavern, arrests the attention. On this spot stood SOUTHAMPTON HOUSE, the mansion of the Wriothesley's, earls of Southampton, the chapel of which is still remaining.

Let us stop and contemplate this former residence of great and virtuous men!" THOMAS WRIOTHESLEY, the last earl of SOUTHAMPTON, like another Sully, placed at the head of the treasury, after the ravage and confusion of the Civil War, with the capacity and application of that able minister, undertook to reduce the public accounts to regularity and order; and happily succeeded in that great attempt. But Charles II. who had not the least œconomy himself, was too apt to overlook that virtue in others; and, what was worse, was inclined to pull down much faster than his treasurer could build up. This excellent person, who was loyal, and yet a patriot, died too soon for the good of his country. He was a man of a quick and lively conception, prompt elocution, and invincible integrity. He was

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