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HOLBORN BRIDGE. 7
go in procession to the Mansion House, where the Lord
Mayor, the Lady Mayoress, and the Members of the
Corporation are in attendance in the Egyptian Hall to
receive them; the boys are all entertained with plum-
cake and wine, and each is presented with a new shilling.
They then pass in procession before the company, and
withdraw. On these occasions each boy bears a paper on
his breast with the inscription :—" He is risen." Among
the eminent scholars educated at this school were Wil-
liam Camden, author of the Britannia; Bishop Stilling-
fleet; Samuel Richardson, the novelist; Thomas Mitchell,
the translator of Aristophanes; Thomas Barnes, who
edited for many years the Times Newspaper; and Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, the poet.
Arriving at the west end of Newgate-street, and cross-
ing the road which intersects the Old Bailey and Gilt-
spur-street, Skinner-street is reached, the old name of
which was Snow-hill, a corruption of Snor-hill, a Saxon
word of the same meaning. Skinner-street was built in
1802 by Mr. Alderman Skinner on Snow-hill, and a spa-
cious and handsome communication made between New-
gate-street and Holborn, in lieu of the former narrow,
steep, and circuitous route. At the corner of Skinner-
street and Giltspur-street is St. Sepulchre's Church, to
some of the mournful associations of which we have had
occasion to refer in our notice of Newgate. It is built
upon the site of a former church dedicated to the Holy
Sepulchre at Jerusalem. The body of the edifice sus-
tained some injury from the fire of 1666, the course of
which was arrested at Pie-corner, a few yards to the north
of the church. The celebrated Roger Ascham was bu-
ried here.
At the end of Skinner-street, where the road passes
between Parringdon-street and Victoria-street, stood
Holborn, or Ouldboume-bridge, a stone bridge over the
Fleet. The origin of Holborn is thus mentioned by
Stow:—" Oldborne, or Hilborn, breaking out about the
place where now the Bars do stand, and run down the
go in procession to the Mansion House, where the Lord
Mayor, the Lady Mayoress, and the Members of the
Corporation are in attendance in the Egyptian Hall to
receive them; the boys are all entertained with plum-
cake and wine, and each is presented with a new shilling.
They then pass in procession before the company, and
withdraw. On these occasions each boy bears a paper on
his breast with the inscription :—" He is risen." Among
the eminent scholars educated at this school were Wil-
liam Camden, author of the Britannia; Bishop Stilling-
fleet; Samuel Richardson, the novelist; Thomas Mitchell,
the translator of Aristophanes; Thomas Barnes, who
edited for many years the Times Newspaper; and Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, the poet.
Arriving at the west end of Newgate-street, and cross-
ing the road which intersects the Old Bailey and Gilt-
spur-street, Skinner-street is reached, the old name of
which was Snow-hill, a corruption of Snor-hill, a Saxon
word of the same meaning. Skinner-street was built in
1802 by Mr. Alderman Skinner on Snow-hill, and a spa-
cious and handsome communication made between New-
gate-street and Holborn, in lieu of the former narrow,
steep, and circuitous route. At the corner of Skinner-
street and Giltspur-street is St. Sepulchre's Church, to
some of the mournful associations of which we have had
occasion to refer in our notice of Newgate. It is built
upon the site of a former church dedicated to the Holy
Sepulchre at Jerusalem. The body of the edifice sus-
tained some injury from the fire of 1666, the course of
which was arrested at Pie-corner, a few yards to the north
of the church. The celebrated Roger Ascham was bu-
ried here.
At the end of Skinner-street, where the road passes
between Parringdon-street and Victoria-street, stood
Holborn, or Ouldboume-bridge, a stone bridge over the
Fleet. The origin of Holborn is thus mentioned by
Stow:—" Oldborne, or Hilborn, breaking out about the
place where now the Bars do stand, and run down the