Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr03thor (find matches)
Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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that time there were only three, \ walls. The Hay Market and Hedge Lane, as hte 15° OLD AND NEW LONDON. (St. Martiniin iheFields. as the reign of Charles IL, were literally lanes,fringed on either side with hedges; and all to thenorth was open countiy. In the ancient plans ofLondon the Hay INIarket is quite clear of buildings,and Windmill Street derived its name, when firstbuilt, from a windmill standing in a field on itswest side, with a small rural stable in the rear of it.The parish of St. Martin was originally taken outof that of St. Margarets; and yet so rapid was its funerals of his liege subjects passing through orpast Whitehall, much as Louis XIV. of France re-solved to build the Chateau at Versailles becausehe could not help seeing the towers of St. Denisfrom the terrace at Saint-Germain. The church is so called after the chivalrousHungarian, St. Martin, who w^as Bishop of Toursin the fourth century, and in whose honour it isdedicated. It received its surname, in the fields,
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THE FIRST ROYAL ACADEMY; ABOUT 174O. (ScY/tl^V I47.) growth, that in 1786 it had come to be one of themost populous within the bills of mortality, beingestimated to contain more than 5,000 houses,although the parishes of St. Pauls, Covent Garden ;St. Annes, Soho; St. Jamess, Piccadilly; and St.Georges, Hanover Square, had all been in turncarved out of it. In very early times it is said that a chapeldedicated to St. Martin was erected near CharingCross, for the convenience of the officers ofWestminster Abbey and Palace, on their way toCovent Garden; and this, no doubt, was theoriginal St. Martins-in-the-Fields. But this isonly a tradition. More trustworthy is the state-ment that St. Martins was built by order and atthe cost of Henry VIII., who disliked to see the like its sister church of St. Giles, from its situationoutside the City proper, when it was first takeninto the bills of mortality, in order to distinguish itfrom other churches eastwards under the samededication. That there w

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