"26th October, 1662.-Lord's Day. Put on my new Scallop, which is very fine. To church, and there saw, the first time, Mr. Mills in a surplice; but it seemed absurd for him to pull it over his ears in the reading-pew, after he had done, before all the church, to go up to the pulpit." "9th August, 1663.-To church, and heard Mr. Mills preach upon the authority of the ministers, upon these words, We are therefore ambassadors of Christ.' Wherein, among other high expressions, he said, that such a learned man used to say, that if a minister of the word and an angel should meet him together, he should salute the minister first; which methought was a little too high. This day I begun to make use of the silver pen Mr. Coventry did give me, in writing of this sermon, taking only the heads of it in Latin, which I shall, I think, continue to do." "4th February, 1665-6.-Lord's Day; and my wife and I, the first time, together at the church since the plague, and now only because of Mr. Mills his coming home to preach his first sermon; expecting a great excuse for his leaving the parish. before anybody went, and now staying till all are come home; but he made but a very poor and short excuse, and a bad sermon. It was a frost, and had snowed last night, which covered the graves in the church-yard, so as I was the less afraid for going through." Daniel Mills, D.D., to whose sermons, in St. Olave's church, Pepys so often listened, and which he so frequently criticises, was thirty-two years rector of the parish. He died in October, 1689, at the age of sixty-three, and was buried in the church. In the Bodleian Library, at Oxford, is preserved a very curious certificate under his hand, which commences as follows:-" 22nd May, 1681. I, Daniel Mills, Doctor in Divinity, present (and for above twenty years last past) Rector of the parish of St. Olave's, Hart Street, London, do hereby certify, that Samuel Pepys, Esq., became, with his family, an inhabitant of the said parish, about the month of June, in the year of our Lord, 1660, and so continued, without intermission, for the space of thirteen years, viz. :-until about the same month in the year 1673; during all which time, the said Mr. Pepys, and his whole family, were constant attenders upon the public worship of God and His holy Ordinances, under my ministration, according to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England, established by law, without the least appearance or suggestion had of any inclination towards Popery, either in himself or any of his family; his lady receiving the Holy Sacrament (in company with him, the said Mr. Pepys, her husband, and others) from my hand, according to the rites of the Church of England, upon her death-bed, a few hours before her decease, in the year 1669." On the 4th of June, 1703, Pepys was himself interred in a vault in the middle aisle of St. Olave's Church, by the side of his wife and brother. We may mention, for the information of the antiquary, that the register-books of St. Olave's are not only continuous from 1563 to the present time, but are also in an admirable state of preservation. In Hart Street, four doors from Mark Lane, stood, till within these last few years, an ancient mansion, styled in the old leases Whittington's Palace, and said to have been the residence of Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London, whose tale is familiar to us from our childhood. On pulling down the old mansion, to make room for some contemplated improvements, the following curious discovery was made. On removing the basement-walls, the workmen came to a small brick chamber, the only opening to which was from the top. On breaking into it, it was found to contain many human bones, mixed with hair, and so disposed of, as to afford much reason to believe that the chamber had been the scene of foul play. This impression was still further strengthened, by the discovery of a dagger,-about twelve inches in length, and with its point broken, -which was found lying among the bones. In Hart Street was born Lady Fanshawe, the authoress of the charming "Memoirs" which bear her name. "I was born," she says, "in St. Olave's, Hart Street, London, in a house that my father took of the Lord Dingwall, father to the now Duchess of Ormond, in the year 1625, on our Lady Day, 25th of March." And she adds,-"In that house I lived the winter times, till I was fifteen years old and three months, with my ever honoured and most dear mother." Lady Fanshawe appears to have been an intimate acquaintance of the Duchess of Ormond, who, on one occasion, told her she loved her for many reasons, "and one was, that we were both born in one chamber."* * Lady Fanshawe's "Memoirs," pp. 50 and 81. VOL. I. N ALDGATE, ST. BOTOLPH'S CHURCH, LEADENHALL STREET, ST. CATHERINE CREE, &c. DERIVATION OF THE NAME ALDGATE. STOW THE ANTIQUARY. -WHITECHAPEL. PERSONS BURIED CHURCH OF ST. ANDREW UNDERSHAFT. MONUMENTS. ST. MARY-AXE. -LIME STREET. FENCHURCH STREET leads us into Aldgate, which derives its name from one of the principal gates of the city,-styled, in the reign of King Edgar, Ealdgate, or Oldgate,-under which passed one of the Roman roads leading into London. In 1215, during the wars between King John and his barons, it was through this gate that the latter entered London in triumph; when, having secured the other gates, and plundered the royalists and Jews, they proceeded to lay siege to the Tower. Here too, in 1471, during the wars between the White and Red Roses, the bastard Falconbridge presented himself at the head of a formidable force, consisting of freebooters and partizans of the House of Lan |