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CHAPTER III.
SOUTHWARK ---- BERMONDSEY — ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH —
BARCLAY AND PERKINS* BREWHOUSE----BANKSIDE----THE
MINT----QFEENJS PRISON----HORSEMONGEK-LANE GAOL----
THE ELEPHANT AND CASTLE----ST. GEORGES-CIRCUS----ST.
GEORGEJS-EIELDS—BETHLEHEM HOSPITAL, ETC.
The Borough of Southwark stretches southward from
London Bridge to Newington Butts; to the south-west
almost to Lambeth; and to Rotherhithe and Bermondsey
in the east. It contains five parishes, viz.—St. Saviour,
St. Olave, St. John, Horselydown, St. George, and St.
Thomas. The Saxons called it Suthverke, or the South
Work, after some fortification bearing that aspect from
London; it was also denominated the Borough or Burg.
The earliest historic account of Southwark refers to the
occasion of Earl Godwin sailing up the Thames to assail
the royal fleet of fifty ships, moored before the palace of
Westminster; this took place in 1052, when it is writ-
ten that he went ad Suthwecree, and stayed there till the
return of the tide. Southwark was long independent of
the City of London, but it affording an asylum to mur-
derers, robbers, and other malefactors,'who, after the per-
petration of crimes in the city, fied to this place, where
the civic officers had no power over them, Edward III.,
on the petition of the citizens, made a grant, in 1327, of
the village of Southwark to the city, in consideration of
an annual payment of £10 to the crown. This grant his
successor Bichard II. refused to confirm, because that it
interfered with the privileges enjoyed by certain religious
houses within the borough. Not till the time of Edward
VI. was the borough again made part of the City of Lon-
don. Upon the crown receiving a valuable consideration,
it was formed into a twenty-sixth ward, under the title of
Bridge Ward Without, and Sir John Ayliffe, citizen bar-
SOUTHWARK ---- BERMONDSEY — ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH —
BARCLAY AND PERKINS* BREWHOUSE----BANKSIDE----THE
MINT----QFEENJS PRISON----HORSEMONGEK-LANE GAOL----
THE ELEPHANT AND CASTLE----ST. GEORGES-CIRCUS----ST.
GEORGEJS-EIELDS—BETHLEHEM HOSPITAL, ETC.
The Borough of Southwark stretches southward from
London Bridge to Newington Butts; to the south-west
almost to Lambeth; and to Rotherhithe and Bermondsey
in the east. It contains five parishes, viz.—St. Saviour,
St. Olave, St. John, Horselydown, St. George, and St.
Thomas. The Saxons called it Suthverke, or the South
Work, after some fortification bearing that aspect from
London; it was also denominated the Borough or Burg.
The earliest historic account of Southwark refers to the
occasion of Earl Godwin sailing up the Thames to assail
the royal fleet of fifty ships, moored before the palace of
Westminster; this took place in 1052, when it is writ-
ten that he went ad Suthwecree, and stayed there till the
return of the tide. Southwark was long independent of
the City of London, but it affording an asylum to mur-
derers, robbers, and other malefactors,'who, after the per-
petration of crimes in the city, fied to this place, where
the civic officers had no power over them, Edward III.,
on the petition of the citizens, made a grant, in 1327, of
the village of Southwark to the city, in consideration of
an annual payment of £10 to the crown. This grant his
successor Bichard II. refused to confirm, because that it
interfered with the privileges enjoyed by certain religious
houses within the borough. Not till the time of Edward
VI. was the borough again made part of the City of Lon-
don. Upon the crown receiving a valuable consideration,
it was formed into a twenty-sixth ward, under the title of
Bridge Ward Without, and Sir John Ayliffe, citizen bar-