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254 TALHs'S ILLUSTRATED LONDON;
vious to their being exposed for sale. St. Mildred" s-court
stands upon its site. The original church of St. Mildred
is said to have been erected by Merowald, the daughter of
a Saxon prince. A subsequent church being destroyed in
the fire of 1666, the present was raised ten years after-
wards. From the Poultry wc emerge into the very heart
of the city of London.
CHAPTER XIIL
THE MANSION-HOUSE—THE CITY WARDS—THE BANK OF
ENGLAND—THE ROYAL EXCHANGE----THE STOCK
EXCHANGE, ETC.
Between the Poultry and that angle described by Corn-
bill, Threadneedle-streetand Broad-street, are. some of the
most important national establishments which crowd this
vast and wealthy city. Of these the Mansion House, as the
official residence of that civic sovereign the Lord Mayor of
London, claims appropriate precedence. In the time ol the
Conqueror, and till the reign of Richard L, the name of
the civil governor who had been called from time imme-
morial a Portreve, or JPortgrave, or guardian of the port,
remained the same, The citizens having advanced to
King Richard a large sum of money in aid of his expedi-
tion to the Holy Land, that monarch permitted them, in
return to elect yearly, two officers.,under the Dame oi
bailiffs or sheriffs, who were to supersede the Portreve-
The two earliest appear to have been Wolgarius and
Geffry de Magnum. In the following reign the office oi
Mayor, a title-and office borrowed from the Norman Maire,
was added. Henry Fitzalwyn was the first upon whom that
distinction was conferred. Henry III. made a new form oi
vious to their being exposed for sale. St. Mildred" s-court
stands upon its site. The original church of St. Mildred
is said to have been erected by Merowald, the daughter of
a Saxon prince. A subsequent church being destroyed in
the fire of 1666, the present was raised ten years after-
wards. From the Poultry wc emerge into the very heart
of the city of London.
CHAPTER XIIL
THE MANSION-HOUSE—THE CITY WARDS—THE BANK OF
ENGLAND—THE ROYAL EXCHANGE----THE STOCK
EXCHANGE, ETC.
Between the Poultry and that angle described by Corn-
bill, Threadneedle-streetand Broad-street, are. some of the
most important national establishments which crowd this
vast and wealthy city. Of these the Mansion House, as the
official residence of that civic sovereign the Lord Mayor of
London, claims appropriate precedence. In the time ol the
Conqueror, and till the reign of Richard L, the name of
the civil governor who had been called from time imme-
morial a Portreve, or JPortgrave, or guardian of the port,
remained the same, The citizens having advanced to
King Richard a large sum of money in aid of his expedi-
tion to the Holy Land, that monarch permitted them, in
return to elect yearly, two officers.,under the Dame oi
bailiffs or sheriffs, who were to supersede the Portreve-
The two earliest appear to have been Wolgarius and
Geffry de Magnum. In the following reign the office oi
Mayor, a title-and office borrowed from the Norman Maire,
was added. Henry Fitzalwyn was the first upon whom that
distinction was conferred. Henry III. made a new form oi