scholars. He was a staunch royalist, and, during the time that the Parliament was in the ascendant, an unguarded speech of his that "one King was better than five hundred," led to his committal to prison. It was even proposed to transport him to the Plantations, but powerful interest having been made by his friends, he escaped with an imprisonment in Ely House, Holborn. He regained his liberty in 1646, but enjoyed it only a short time; his death taking place on the 12th of June in the following year. Wood Street and Whitecross Street are said to have been the last streets in London, in which the houses were distinguished by signs. They were removed about the year 1773. Redcross Street leads us into Jewin Street, the site of which street was long a burying-place of the Jews, from which circumstance it took the name of Jewyn, or Jews' Garden, -"Gardinum vocatum. Jewyn Garden." It was a large plot of ground, and is remarkable as having been the only place in England in which the Jews were permitted to bury their dead, till the year 1177, when (" after a long suit to the King and Parliament at Oxford") special burial-places were assigned them in the different quarters which they inhabited. "This plot of ground," says Stow, "remained to the said Jews till the time of their final banishment out of England, and is now turned into fair garden-plots, and summer-houses for pleasure." In one of these "summer-houses for pleasure," in Jewin Street, lived John Milton. He took up his abode here shortly after the Restoration, and here he continued to reside till the breaking out of the great Plague, when he retired to Chalfont, in Buckinghamshire. In Jewin Street, he married his third wife, Elizabeth Minshull, and here he is said to have written a great part of his immortal poem, "Paradise Lost." In Jewyn Street Chapel is preserved John Bunyan's pulpit. From Jewin Street let us pass into Aldersgate Street, which derives its name from one of the gates of the city, so called, according to Stow, from its antiquity, it having been one of the older, or original gates. The old gate was taken down and rebuilt in 1617. The new gate was considerably injured by the Great Fire, but having been repaired and beautified, it remained till the year 1761, when it was demolished, and the materials sold for ninety-one pounds. After the Restoration of Charles the Second, many of the heads of the regicides were exposed on this gate. Aldersgate Street, as late as the days of Queen Elizabeth, contained a greater number of the houses of the old nobility than, perhaps, any other street in the metropolis. Here, on the west side, stood another of the London residences of the Nevilles, Earls of Westmoreland, and close by, where Bulland-Mouth Street now stands, was the mansion of the Percies Earls of Northumberland. Westmoreland Buildings still point out the site of the residence of the Nevilles. Here, too, breathed her last, in 1621, "at her house in Aldersgate Street," Mary Countess of Pembroke: Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. On the east side of Aldersgate Street, now converted into a General Dispensary, still stands Shaftesbury House, built by Inigo Jones. It was originally the residence of the Tuftons, Earls of Thanet, from whom it passed into the hands of the first Earl of Shaftesbury, the turbulent statesman of the reign of Charles the Second, and the "Achitophel" of Dryden's poem : For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. So After Lord Shaftesbury's final dismissal from office, it was at his house in Aldersgate Street that he took up his abode, for the purpose of fomenting discontent among the citizens of London, and inflaming them against the government. popular was he at this period with the lower orders, -for the Court had recently made him a martyr by confining him in the Tower, that it was his boast that he could raise a body of ten thousand men by merely holding up his finger. Charles the in Jewin Street, lived John Milton. He took up his abode here shortly after the Restoration, and here he continued to reside till the breaking out of the great Plague, when he retired to Chalfont, in Buckinghamshire. In Jewin Street, he married his third wife, Elizabeth Minshull, and here he is said to have written a great part of his immortal poem, "Paradise Lost." In Jewyn Street Chapel is preserved John Bunyan's pulpit. From Jewin Street let us pass into Aldersgate Street, which derives its name from one of the gates of the city, so called, according to Stow, from its antiquity, it having been one of the older, or original gates. The old gate was taken down and rebuilt in 1617. The new gate was considerably injured by the Great Fire, but having been repaired and beautified, it remained till the year 1761, when it was demolished, and the materials sold for ninety-one pounds. After the Restoration of Charles the Second, many of the heads of the regicides were exposed on this gate. Aldersgate Street, as late as the days of Queen Elizabeth, contained a greater number of the houses of the old nobility than, perhaps, any other street in the metropolis. Here, on the west side, stood another of the London residences of the Nevilles, Earls of Westmoreland, and close by, where Bulland-Mouth Street now stands, was the mansion of the Percies Earls of Northumberland. Westmoreland Buildings still point out the site of the residence of the Nevilles. Here, too, breathed her last, in 1621, "at her house in Aldersgate Street," Mary Countess of Pembroke : Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. On the east side of Aldersgate Street, now converted into a General Dispensary, still stands Shaftesbury House, built by Inigo Jones. It was originally the residence of the Tuftons, Earls of Thanet, from whom it passed into the hands of the first Earl of Shaftesbury, the turbulent statesman of the reign of Charles the Second, and the "Achitophel" of Dryden's poem : For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. So After Lord Shaftesbury's final dismissal from office, it was at his house in Aldersgate Street that he took up his abode, for the purpose of fomenting discontent among the citizens of London, and inflaming them against the government. popular was he at this period with the lower orders, -for the Court had recently made him a martyr by confining him in the Tower,-that it was his boast that he could raise a body of ten thousand men by merely holding up his finger. Charles the |