described his shop as "in St. Dunstan's Churchyard in Fleet Street, under the Diall." Such is his address on the 1609 edition of Romeo and Juliet, and the 1611 edition of Hamlet. Here, in St. Dunstan's churchyard, Marriot published the first edition of Walton's Angler.

There is newly extant a book of 18d. price, called "The Compleat Angler; or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers. Printed for Richard Marriot, in St. Dunstan's Churchyard, Fleet Street."—Mercurius Politicus, for May, 1653.

Dr. Donne, the poet, and Dr. College), were vicars of this church. of White has been lately erected. Fish, author of the Supplication of Beggers (d. A.D. 1531). Davies, of Hereford, the poet and writing-master (d. 1617). Thomas Campion, Doctor of Physic, also a poet (d. 1619). Dr. White (d. March 1, 16231624). Simon Wadlow, landlord of the Devil Tavern, Ben Jonson's "King of Skinkers" (buried March 30, 1627). George, first Lord Baltimore, Secretary of State, and one of the early colonisers of North America (d. April 15, 1632). John Graunt, one of the founders of Political Economy (d. 1674). Pinchbeck, who gave his name to a metallic compound (d. 1783). Thomas Mudge, the celebrated chronometer maker (d. 1794). Eminent Persons baptized in.-Wentworth, Earl of Strafford (the great earl who was beheaded). Bulstrode Whitelocke, the author of the Memorials. According to tradition the officiating minister was startled at the name of Bulstrode, and asked if they could not call the babe otherwise.

Thomas White (founder of Sion A monument with medallion bust Eminent Persons buried in.—Simon

He [Lord Keeper Guilford] once heard Oates preach at St. Dunstan's, and much admired his theatrical behaviour in the pulpit : he prayed for his very good lord and patron the Duke of Norfolk, which made his lordship suspect him to be wasping towards popery.-Roger North's Lives, vol. i. p. 325.

Observe. The statue of Queen Elizabeth over the Fleet Street doorway, which has the date 1586 inscribed upon it. This statue originally stood on the west front of Ludgate, and was removed here in 1766. It is the only known relic remaining of any of the City gates, for Temple Bar was only a bar to mark the liberties of the City without the walls.

Dunstan (St.), STEPNEY (Old Stepney Church), a church in the perpendicular style of architecture, injured by restorations, but in 1847 it was repaired under the direction of Benjamin Ferrey, architect. The church is mentioned in a document dated "Wednesday before the feast of St. Lucy, 1302," among the MSS. of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, and catalogued by Mr. Maxwell Lyte (Appendix to Ninth Report of the Historical MSS. Comm., p. 56). Fox, the founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; William Jerome, burnt at Smithfield in 1540; Colet, the founder of St. Paul's school; and Richard Pace, the friend of Erasmus, were vicars of Stepney.i The register records the marriage of Edward Russell, Earl of Bedford, 1 Lysons's Env., vol. iv. p. 476.

to Lucy Harrington (December 12, 1594). This Lucy, Countess of Bedford, was the patron of Ben Jonson, Daniel, and Donne; indeed of all the poets of her time. Eminent Persons buried in.-Richard Pace, the friend of Erasmus. Sir Thomas Spert (d. September 8, 1541), founder and first Master of the Corporation of the Trinity House. The wife of Oakey, the regicide.1 "John Van Stryp, merchant and silk-throwster." The father of Strype, the biographer and historian. Rev. John Entick (d. 1773), author of the several dictionaries and spelling-books which bear his name. In the churchyard lies Matthew Mead (d. 1699), the famous Nonconformist Divine. Observe.-Altartomb in chancel of Sir Henry Colet, father of Dean Colet. Sir Henry Colet, Lord Mayor in 1495, had a mansion near the church. stone in burying-ground to Thomas Saffin.

Flat

Since I am talking of death, and have mentioned an epitaph, I must tell you, sir, that I have made discovery of a churchyard, in which I believe you might spend an afternoon with great pleasure to yourself and to the public. It belongs to the parish church of Stebon Heath, commonly called Stepney. Whether or no it be that the people of that parish have a particular genius for an epitaph, or that there be some poet among them who undertakes that work by the groat, I can't tell; but there are more remarkable inscriptions in that place than in any other I have met with. . . . I shall beg leave to send you a couple of epitaphs for a sample of those I have just now mentioned. The first is this:

"Here Thomas Saffin lyes interr'd, ah why?

Born in New England, did in London die;
Was the third son of eight begat upon
His mother Martha by his father John.
Much favour'd by his Prince he 'gan to be,
But nipt by Death at th' age of Twenty Three.
Fatal to him was that we Small Pox name,
By which his Mother and two Brethren came
Also to breathe their last nine years before,
And now have left their father to deplore
The loss of all his Children, with that Wife,
Who was the Joy and Comfort of his Life."
[Deceased June the 18th, 1687.]

The second is as follows:

"Here lies the body of Daniel Saul,
Spittle-fields weaver, and that's all."2

The Spectator, No. 518.

Once upon reading that line in the curious epitaph quoted in The Spectator :

"Born in New England, did in London die,"

he [Johnson] laughed and said, "I do not wonder at this. It would have been strange if, born in London, he had died in New England."-Croker's Boswell.

This afternoon I went to visit a gentleman of my acquaintance at Mile End, and passing through Stepney churchyard, I could not forbear entertaining myself with the inscriptions on the tombs and graves. Among others I observed one with this notable memorial :

"Here lies the body of T. B."

This fantastical desire of being remembered only by the two first letters of a name, led me into the contemplation of the vanity and imperfect attainments of ambition in general. The Tatler, No. 202.

1 Ludlow, vol. iii. p. 103.

2 This was "not to be found" when Lysons

wrote, about 1790, and has not been discovered since.

On the east side of the entrance to the gallery is a slab set up by "Thomas Hughes, 1663," with an inscription commencing:—

Of Carthage wall I was a stone,

O mortals read with pity;

Time consumes all, it spareth none,

Man, mountain, town, or city.

Aaron Hill on reading these lines was incited to try a bolder flight in the same direction. His verses begin (Works, vol. iii. p. 40)::

Two thousand years ere Stepney had a name,

In Carthage Walls I shared the Punic fame!

"Fish and Ring" monument, on the east wall of the chancel on the outside, to Dame Rebecca Berry, wife of Thomas Elton of Stratford Bow, and widow of Sir John Berry, 1696. The coat of arms on the monument-Paly of six, on a bend three mullets (Elton), impaling a fish, and, in the dexter chief point, an annulet between two bends wavy -has given rise to a tradition that Lady Berry was the heroine of the ballad called "The Cruel Knight, or fortunate Farmer's Daughter," the story of which is as follows: A knight, passing by a cottage, hears the cries of a woman in labour; his knowledge in the occult sciences informs him that the child then born was destined to be his wife; he endeavours to elude the decrees of fate, and avoid so ignoble an alliance by various fruitless attempts to destroy the child. When grown to woman's estate he takes her to the sea-side, intending to drown her, but relents; at the same time throwing a ring into the sea, he commands her never to see his face again on pain of instant death unless she can produce that ring. She afterwards became a cook, finds the ring in a cod-fish, and is married to her knight. This story, or one something like it, for it was told with variations, was devoutly believed in the once suburban, but now crowded hamlet of Stepney.

Durham House, in the STRAND.

Durham House, built by Thomas Hatfielde, Bishop of Durham, who was made bishop of that see in the year 1345, and sat bishop there thirty-six years.—Stow, p. 167.

But this was not the original Durham House. The bishops had their dwelling there more than a century earlier. In 1238 Otho, the Papal Legate, was lodged at Durham House in the Strand; and there he summoned the English Bishops to consider what further steps should be taken respecting the churches and schools of Oxford, which he had laid under interdict, on account of the scholars having, when the legate was staying at Oseney, killed his brother and clerk of the kitchen in an affray, and caused the legate himself to flee the City. The bishops interceded for the University, and at length the legate was so far pacified as to promise his pardon on condition of the clergy and scholars making an act of full submission. The citizens of London witnessed as a consequence an edifying spectacle. Fuller's is the liveliest account of "their solemn submission."

They [the Oxford clergy and scholars] went from St. Paul's in London, to Durham House in the Strand, no short Italian, but an English long mile, all on foot; the Bishops of England, for the more state of the business, accompanying them, as partly accessary to their fault, for pleading in their behalf. When they came to the Bishop of Carlisle's (now Worcester) House, the scholars went the rest of their way barefoot, sine capis et mantulis, which some understand, "without capes or cloaks." And thus the great legate at last was really reconciled unto them.-Thomas Fuller, Church History, B. iii. cent. xiii. p. 20.

12 Henry IV. And Prynce Herry [Henry V.] lay at the bysshoppes inne of Dorham fro the seid day of his comming to towne unto the Moneday nest after the feste of Septem fratrum.-Nicolas, Chronicle of London, p. 94.

This howse called Durham, or Dunelme howse . . . was buylded in the time of Henry 3, by one Antonye Becke, B. of Durham. It is a howse of 300 years antiquitie; the hall whereof is stately and high, supported with lofty marble pillars. It standeth upon the Thamise veriye pleasantly. Her Matie hath committed the use thereof to Sr Walter Rawleigh.-Norden (1593), MS. Account of Middlesex (Norden's Essex, Pref., p. xvi.)

In the reign of Henry VIII. Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of Durham, "conveyed the house to the king in fee;"1 and Henry, in recompense thereof, granted to the see of Durham Coldharborough and other houses in London. Henry seems to have granted the use of the house to the Earl of Wiltshire, as we find him requesting the Earl to "let Doctor Cranmer have entertainment in your house at Durham Place for a time, to the intent he may bee there quiet to accomplish my request, and let him lack neither bookes, ne anything requisite for his studies." 2 In 1550 the French Ambassador, Mons. de Chastillon, and his colleagues were lodged in Durham House, " which was furnished with hangings of the kings for the nonce." 3 Edward VI., in the second year of his reign, granted Durham House for life, or until she was otherwise advanced, to the Lady Elizabeth, his sister, afterwards Queen Elizabeth; but in some way it passed from the Princess to Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, and was his principal London house when Edward VI. died. Mary, on coming to the crown, restored Durham House to Tunstall, the same bishop who had originally conveyed it away. In the Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1547-1580, p. 105, is this entry, "August 16, 1558, Cuthbert Tunstal Bishop of Durham to Card. Pole. Thanks him for procuring the grant to him of the reversion of Durham House." Tunstal's history is somewhat remarkable. He was translated by Henry VIII. from London to Durham in 1530; deprived by Edward VI., in 1552, and the bishopric dissolved; restored by Mary in 1552; and again deprived by Elizabeth in 1559, the same year in which he died.

The Queen [Elizabeth] did not spare Cuthbert Tunstal, Bishop of Durham, though some will not stick to say that he was her god-father; which if he were not, it is most certain that he was then present and did officiate at her christening. But I think he was her god-father, because I am certain he gave her Durham House in the Strand to dwell in, which she kept during her life, and did not restore it to his successors, but suffered Sir Walter Raleigh to live there. I remember when the

1 Reliq. Spel.

2 Fox, ed. 1597, p. 1689.

3 Tytler's Edward VI. and Mary, vol. i. p. 288; and Diary of Fdward VI. in Burnet.

Bishop of Durham in the Queen's time came up to the Parliament, he was fain to hire my schoolmaster's [Camden's] house in Westminster to lodge in.-Bishop Goodman's Court of King James, vol. i. p. 420.

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Elizabeth first granted Durham House to Sir Henry Sidney, who in March 1567-1568 writes from it to Archbishop Parker for a licence to eat meat in Lent, for "my boy Philip Sidney, who is somewhat subject to sickness." About 1583 it was granted to Sir Walter Raleigh, who held it till his fall. The case of Glanville v. Courtney was heard at divers stages before the Lord Warden Raleigh at his house in Durham Place in 1591 and subsequent years, Egerton being on one occasion counsel in the cause.

October 9, 1595.-I dyned with Sir Walter Rawlegh at Durham House.-Dr. Dee's Diary, p. 54.

Durham House was a noble palace. After he [Sir Walter Raleigh] came to his greatness he lived there, or in some apartment of it. I well remember his study, which was on a little turret that looked into and over the Thames, and had the prospect which is as pleasant perhaps as any in the world.—Aubrey, vol. iii. p. 513.

On the death of Queen Elizabeth, Tobias Mathew, the then Bishop of Durham, set forth the claim of his see to their old town house in the Strand. Sir Walter Raleigh opposed his claims, but the King and council (May 25, 1603) recognised the right of the see (Raleigh was then without a friend), and Durham House was restored to the successors of Thomas Hatfielde. Raleigh, in a letter of remonstrance to the Lord Keeper Egerton on this harsh proceeding, states that he had been in possession of the house about twenty years, and that he had expended £2000 upon it in repairs out of his own purse. On February 16, 1612, we find William James, Bishop of Durham, writing to Cecil to thank him for his "honourable dealings in the purchase of Durham House."3 In 1623, when everybody was expecting Prince Charles to return from Spain with the Infanta as his bride, Durham House was prepared to receive the grandees of her train, but Bishop Howson was here in 1630. The house had already lost something of its stateliness. The grounds were encroached on for Salisbury House, and the stabling was converted into the New Exchange. Lord Keeper Coventry died (1640) in the best portion of the house, and what remained of it was subsequently obtained by Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, for whom Webb, the pupil and kinsman of Inigo Jones, designed a large house on the site (never commenced), the elevation of which is still to be seen in the collection of Jones's drawings at Worcester College, Oxford. The front towards the river long remained a picturesque, and the stables or outhouses an unsightly, ruin. All however was swept away in the early part of the reign of George III., when the Messrs. Adam built on a ninety-nine years' lease, "the bold Adelphi" over the ground once occupied by old Durham House. Ivy Bridge was the boundary eastward. Durham Street still remains to mark the site. [See Adelphi ; Durham Yard.]

1 Parker Corresp., p. 316.

2 Egerton Papers, by Collier, p. 376.

3 Calendar of State Papers, 1611-1618, p. 126.