Richard. But, Catesby, say, where died Shore and his wife?
Catesby. Where Ayre was hanged for giving her relief,
There both of them round circling his cold grave,

And arm in arm, departed from this life.
The people, from the love they bear to her
And her kind husband, pitying his wrongs,

For ever after mean to call the ditch

Shore's Ditch, as in the memory of them.

Haywood's King Edward IV., 2d part, p. 192 (Shak. Soc.)

The popular notion had early taken material form in the Jane Shore Inn, of which there are 17th-century tokens extant. The inn still exists-No. 103 Shoreditch High Street.

Soersditch, so called more than four hundred years since, as I can prove by record. Stow, p. 158.

The Manour of Soersditch with the Polehowse and Bowes (so expressed in the Record), lately belonging to John de Northampton of London, Draper, was granted 15 Richard II. to Edmund Duke of York, and Earl of Cambridge, and Edward Earl of Roteland [Rutland], son of the same Edmund and Isabel.-Strype, B. iv. p. 50.

I read of the King's Manour, called, Shoresditch Place, in the parish of Hackney. But how it took that name I know not. This house is now called Shore Place. The vulgar tradition goes that Jane Shore lived here; and here her royal lover used to visit her. But we have the credit of Mr. Stow that the true name was Shorditch Place, and 'tis not unlikely to have been the place of a Knight called Sir John de Sordich, a great man in Edward the Third his days, who was with that King in his wars in France, and is remembered in our Annals in 14 Edw. III. He was owner of lands in Hackney as well in demesne as in service: which he gave to Croston his chaplain. This Weever notes; who thinks Shorditch to be named from the said Knight.-Strype, B. iv. p. 53.

It was said to have In the "Poor Man's should not make the

The mock title "Duke of Shoreditch" used to be bestowed on the most successful archer in the annual trials of skill. been applied in the first instance by Henry VIII. Petition" of 1603, one item is that the King "good Lord of Lincoln Duke of Shoreditch." The title appears to have been given from the circumstance that the fields at Shoreditch with those at Finsbury and Hoxton were the chief practising grounds of the London archers, and hence, whilst the Duke of Shoreditch was the premier archer, those of somewhat inferior fame were dubbed Marquis of Hogsden (Hoxton), Earl of Pancridge (St. Pancras), and the like. The archers who practised in the fields at Mile End called their chief bowman Prince Arthur, and others his knights.

And another time at a shooting match at Windsor, the King [Henry VIII.] was present; and the game being well nigh finished, and the upshot thought to be given, one Barlo, a citizen and inhabitant of Shoreditch, shot and won them all. Whereat the King greatly rejoiced, and told him he should be named The Duke of Shoreditch. On which account the Captain of the Company of Archers of London, for a long time after, was styled by that name.-Strype, B. i. p. 250.

In 1598 was published "A Martiall Conference pleasantly discussed between two Souldiers only practised in Finsbury Fields, in the modern Wars of the renowned Duke of Shoreditch and the mighty Prince Arthur. Newly translated out of Essex into English by Barnaby Rich, Gent. 1598."-Collier, vol. i. p. xxxvi.

In July 1553, when Dudley Duke of Northumberland set out with a goodly following to seize Queen Mary in the Eastern Counties-"As they went throughe

Shordyke, saieth the duke to one that rid by him, the people prece to se us, but not one sayeth God spede us.""-Queen Jane and Queen Mary (Camden Soc.), p. 8.

Two of the witnesses in the inquiry into the mysterious death of Richard Hunn, who was found hanged in the Lollards' Tower, St. Paul's, where he was imprisoned on a charge of heresy, were "Robert Johnson and his wife dwelling at the Bell in Shoreditch." The back of the inn must at that time have opened upon the country, for it is deposed that one Charles Joseph leaped upon his horse in the inn yard and "prayed the host to let him out of his back gate, that he might ride out by the field side; which the host so did."1 Lying on the main road to the Eastern Counties, the inns of Shoreditch, the nearest point to the City, were numerous and much frequented by travellers.

Monopoly. Gad's-so, dost hear? I'm to sup this night at the Lion in Shoreditch with certain gallants.-Westward Ho, Act ii. Sc. 3 (1607, 4to).

Newton dates a remarkable letter to Locke "At the Bull, in Shoreditch, London, September 16, 1693." Shoreditch was formerly notorious for the easy character of its women. To die in Shoreditch was not a mere metaphorical term for dying in a sewer.

"Call a leete at Bishopsgate, and examine how every second house in Shoreditch is mayntayned; make a privie search in Southwarke, and tell me how many shee inmates you finde." In another passage Nash couples "Shoreditch, the Spittle, Southwarke, Westminster, and Turnbull Street."-Nash's Pierce Penniless, 1592.

Well said, daughter lift up your voices and sing like nightingales, you Toryrory jades. Courage, I say; as long as the merry pence hold out, you shall none of you die in Shoreditch.-Dryden, The Kind Keeper, or Mr. Limberham, 4to, 1680. Here, next door unto The Gun, lived Mrs. Millwood, who led George Barnwell astray.

Good Barnwell, then quoth she,

Do thou to Shoreditch come,

And ask for Mrs. Millwood's house,

Next door unto the Gun.-Percy's Reliques, vol. iii. Book 3.

When Chatterton first came to London, 1770, he lodged in the house of Walmsley, a plasterer, in Shoreditch, where his kinswoman, Mrs. Ballance, also lived. He remained here from May to July, when he removed to Brook Street, where in the following month came the unhappy end.

Harwood, my townsman, who invented first
Porter to rival wine, and quench the thirst,

was a brewer on the east side of High Street, Shoreditch, and his famous beverage was first retailed at the Blue Last at the corner of New Inn Yard in the neighbouring Curtain Road. New Inn Yard remains, but the Blue Last has departed. Shoreditch High Street has been much improved in appearance of late years by the widening of its northern end, the formation of Commercial Street, and the new street from Old Street, and especially by the extensive works in connection with the new Goods Station of the Great Eastern Railway. [See Hog Lane; Holywell Street; St. Leonard's, Shoreditch; Standard Theatre.] 1 Foxe, vol. iv. p. 193

Short's Gardens, DRURY LANE, to King Street, St. Giles's, said to have been so named from a "mansion built there by Dudley Short, Esq., an eminent parishioner in the reign of Charles II., with garden attached." "1 But another Mr. Short had built here much earlier.

July 7, 1618.-The Justices of Middlesex report to the Council that they have examined the state of the large building lately erected in Drury Lane, assigned by Wm. Short of Gray's Inn to Edw. Smith, and find that it is erected on the foundations of the former tenements.- -Cal. State Pap., 1611-1618, p. 551, and comp. under July 18.

Here, in "

a hole," as he calls it, Charles Mathews the elder made one of his first attempts as an actor.

Shrouds (The), the crypt at St. Paul's. [See St. Paul's Cathedral.] There is a sermon of Latimer's "preached in the Shrouds at St. Paul's Church, in London, January 18, 1548."

Shug Lane, PICCADILLY, afterwards Tichborne Street (which see).

Chatelain, the celebrated engraver, died [1770] of an indigestion after a hearty supper of lobsters: he then lodged at a carpenter's in a court near Shug Lane: going home after his supper of lobsters, he bought and eat a hundred of asparagus; he was buried by subscription.-Captain Grose, Biographical Anecdotes, p. 166.

Shunamite's House, WATLING STREET. The maintenance of the sermons at St. Paul's Cross, and the ensuring of suitable preachers, was from an early period a matter of much interest. Aylmer, Bishop of London, and other benefactors contributed liberally to a fund for the purpose, and the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen ordered that every minister who should preach at the Cross,-" considering the journies some of them might take from the Universities, or elsewhere, -should at his pleasure be freely entertained for five days' space, with sweet and convenient lodging, fire, candle, and all other necessaries : viz. from Thursday, before their day of preaching, to Thursday morning following."2 The house provided for their lodging was called the Shunamite's House from the hospitable entertainment of Elisha by the Shunamite woman.3 The character of the house is very well shown in the interesting story told by Izaak Walton in his Life of Richard Hooker, which the reader of that book cannot fail to remember, of Hooker's coming to town to preach at Paul's Cross, soon after he had taken his degree (1581); how he arrived "at the Shunamite's House in Watling Street" (then kept by John Churchman, sometime a draper of note); wet and weary and weather-beaten ;" how he took a cold, and how Mrs. Churchman cured him; how she persuaded him that he was a man of a tender constitution, and that it was best for him to have a wife, how Mr. Hooker acceded to her

1 Dobie's St. Giles, 2d ed., p. 61. 2 Strype, B. iii. p. 149.

3 "And she [the Shunamite woman] said unto her husband, Let us make a little chamber,

I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him

that might prove a nurse to him; opinion, and how Mrs. Churchman

[Elisha] there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither. And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there."-2 Kings, iv. 9-11.j.

recommended her daughter Joan; how Mr. Hooker married her, and had so little cause to rejoice in the wife he obtained on the occasion of his Paul's Cross sermon, that he might with the Psalmist liken his habitation to the tents of Kedar. The Paul's Cross Sermons were continued after the Cross was destroyed; but the Shunamite's House was abandoned. The date of its discontinuance is not stated, but Strype (1720) says, "This good custom continued, till of late times it hath been taken away, or disused."

Siam's, an India House in St. James's Street, kept by a Mrs. Siam, for the sale of teas, toys, shawls, Indian screens, cabinets, and other oriental goods. It is mentioned by several of our Queen Anne writers; but the name has long been removed, and the site of the house long since forgotten.

Lady Malapert. O law! what should I do in the country? There's no levees, no Mall, no plays, no tea at Siam's, no Hyde Park.-Southern, The Maid's Last Prayer, 4to, 1693.

Leonora. I will write to him to meet me within half an hour at Mrs. Siam's the India House, in St. James's Street.-Cibber, Woman's Wit or the Lady in Fashion, 4to, 1697.

Leonora [Scene, an India House]. Come, Mrs. Siam, what new Indian toys have you?—Ibid.

India, or as they were at first called China, houses monopolised the shopping of the fine ladies of London from early in the 17th to the middle of the 18th century. Ben Jonson more than once refers to them :

[She] is served

Upon the knee!—And has her pages, ushers,
Footmen, and coaches-her six mares-nay eight,
To hurry her through London, to the Exchange,
Bethlem, the China-houses.

Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, 1610, Act iv. Sc. 2.

So in The Silent Woman (Act iv. Sc. 2) he makes Lady Haughty say: "And go with us to Bedlam, to the China-houses, and to the Exchange." Scandal imputed other motives to the monopoly than

To cheapen tea or buy a screen.-PRIOR.

King William III. severely reprehended Queen Mary for being persuaded to go to one.1 Cibber makes Lady Townley "take a flying jaunt to an India house," as one of the dashing gaieties of a fine lady's London life.

There are no Indian-houses, to drop in

And fancy Stuffs, and chuse a pretty Screen,
To while away an hour or so-“ I swear
These cups are pretty, but they're deadly dear:"

And if some unexpected friend appear

"The Devil!-Who could have thought to meet you here?"

Epilogue to Rowe's Ulysses, 1706, 4to.

1 Dalrymple's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 79, Appendix.

Straight then I'll dress, and take my wonted range
Through India shops, to Motteux's, or the Change,
Where the tall jar erects its stately pride,
With antic shapes in China's azure dyed.
There careless lies a rich brocade unroll'd,

Here shines a cabinet with burnish'd gold.

Lady M. W. Montagu, The Toilet, by Gay.

In reprinting this as a "Town Eclogue" Gay makes a few alterations, and adds a couplet which notices one of the chief temptations of these shops-the raffle

But then remembrance will my grief renew

'Twas there the raffling dice false Damon threw.

Sidney Alley, LEICESTER SQUARE, now Sidney Place, from the north-west corner of the square to Coventry Street, was so called from the Sidneys, Earls of Leicester. [See Leicester House.]

Sidney House, the first known London residence of the Sidney family was in the Old Bailey.

Silver Street, CHEAPSIDE, from Wood Street to Falcon Square. Down lower in Wood Street is Silver Street (I think of silversmiths dwelling there), in which be divers fair houses.-Stow, p. 112.

Gossip Censure. A notable tough rascal, this old Pennyboy! right city-bred. Gossip Mirth. In Silver Street, the region of money, a good seat for an usurer.— Ben Jonson, The Staple of News.

It must also have been famous for its wig-makers.

Otter. All her teeth were made in the Blackfriars; both her eyebrows in the Strand, and her hair in Silver Street.-Ben Jonson, The Silent Woman, Act iv. Sc. I. On the south side of Silver Street (No. 24) is the Parish Clerks' Hall [which see]. A large fire occurred here in 1884.

Silver Street, GOLDEN SQUARE, from Beak Street to Cambridge Street. Canaletto, the great landscape painter, was living here in 1752, when he issued the following advertisement :

Signior Canaletto gives notice that he has painted Chelsea College, Ranelagh House, and the River Thames; which if any gentleman or others are pleased to favour him with seeing the same, he will attend at his lodgings at Mr. Viggan's in Silver Street, Golden Square, for fifteen days from this day, July 31, from 8 to 1, and from 3 to 6 at night each day.

Sion College, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, E.C., near the north end of Blackfriars Bridge and next building on the west to the City of London School, was founded 1623 as a College and Almshouse pursuant to the will of Dr. Thomas White, who therein describes himself as "Minister of God's Word and Vicar of St. Dunstan in the West." This, however, was perhaps the least important of his preferments, as he held the prebend of Mora in the cathedral church of St. Paul's, and as he was also Treasurer of Salisbury, Canon of Ch. Ch. Oxford, and of Windsor. To the College and almshouse was added, by the munificence of Dr. John Simson, rector of St. Olave, Hart