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238 TALLIs's ILLUSTRATED LONDON J
phrase employed by Shakspere. The perfume of spices
and other aromatic articles, has been supposed by Monfet
to have preserved this street from the fearful ravages of
the pestilence. Bucklersbury is now the seat of a parti-
cular traffic, for which, from its quiet and secluded situa-
tion, although in the very heart of the city, it is well
adapted. Here, in those brief intervals in the middle of
the day, when the toils of business are for awhile sus-
pended, the citizens, clerks, and others employed in the
commercial hive retire to the numerous eating-houses,
taverns, and coffee-houses, which constitute the staple
trade of this locality. Dinner in Bucklersbury is a matter
of high importance, and it would be no uninteresting
index to the vast consumption of food in the city, if
the dining statistics of this street of bill, of fares were
published. At one o'clock in the afternoon its res-
taurants are literally crowded with consumers, who re-
quire no supernatural, or far-fetched zest to create an
appetite.
We return through Walbrook to Cannon-street, which
is a perversion of Canwick or Candlcwick-street, in early
times the residence of candlemakers. Here also weavers
of woollen cloth carried on their business; having been
invited from inlanders by Edward III. They held their
meetings in the church-yard of St. Lawrence, Poultncy.
According to Stow, there were at that time in Cannon-
street, " Weavers of drapery, tapery, and napery." The
church of St. SwitJun is situated at the south-west corner
of St. SwithinVlane, in Cannon-street. The present
structure was built by Sir Christopher Wren. The most
singular memorial in connection with this edifice is the
London Stone. This relic of antiquity is supposed to have
been a Roman miUiarrum in the line of the great road to
Watling-street; similar to that in the forum at Rome,
where all the highways of the country met in a point, and
from which they were measured. The rebel Jack Cade,
on his victorious progress through London, struck this
stone with his sword, exclaiming, "Now is Mortimer
phrase employed by Shakspere. The perfume of spices
and other aromatic articles, has been supposed by Monfet
to have preserved this street from the fearful ravages of
the pestilence. Bucklersbury is now the seat of a parti-
cular traffic, for which, from its quiet and secluded situa-
tion, although in the very heart of the city, it is well
adapted. Here, in those brief intervals in the middle of
the day, when the toils of business are for awhile sus-
pended, the citizens, clerks, and others employed in the
commercial hive retire to the numerous eating-houses,
taverns, and coffee-houses, which constitute the staple
trade of this locality. Dinner in Bucklersbury is a matter
of high importance, and it would be no uninteresting
index to the vast consumption of food in the city, if
the dining statistics of this street of bill, of fares were
published. At one o'clock in the afternoon its res-
taurants are literally crowded with consumers, who re-
quire no supernatural, or far-fetched zest to create an
appetite.
We return through Walbrook to Cannon-street, which
is a perversion of Canwick or Candlcwick-street, in early
times the residence of candlemakers. Here also weavers
of woollen cloth carried on their business; having been
invited from inlanders by Edward III. They held their
meetings in the church-yard of St. Lawrence, Poultncy.
According to Stow, there were at that time in Cannon-
street, " Weavers of drapery, tapery, and napery." The
church of St. SwitJun is situated at the south-west corner
of St. SwithinVlane, in Cannon-street. The present
structure was built by Sir Christopher Wren. The most
singular memorial in connection with this edifice is the
London Stone. This relic of antiquity is supposed to have
been a Roman miUiarrum in the line of the great road to
Watling-street; similar to that in the forum at Rome,
where all the highways of the country met in a point, and
from which they were measured. The rebel Jack Cade,
on his victorious progress through London, struck this
stone with his sword, exclaiming, "Now is Mortimer