for a Church, yet I would remind you that it was only the more usual ancient English name of King Olave, as we are told on good authority, by the Rev. Alban Butler in his ‘_Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and other principal Saints_,’ London, 1812, 8vo. volume vii. where also, on pages 378-380, you have many further particulars of the life of this heroic Prince. You may also meet with him under a variety of other names, as Anlaf, Unlaf, Olaf Haraldson, Olaus, and Olaf Helge, or Olave the Holy. Of his Church in Southwark I will tell you nothing as to its foundation, but remark only that its antiquity is proved by William Thorn’s ‘_Chronicle of the Acts of the Abbots of St. Austin’s Canterbury_;’ which is printed in Roger Twysden’s ‘_Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores Decem_;’ London, 1652, folio. Thorn, you may remember, was a Monk of St. Augustine’s, in 1380; and on column 1932 of the volume now referred to, he gives the copy of a grant from John, Earl of Warren, to Nicholas, the Abbot of St. Augustine’s, giving to his Monastery all the estate which it held in ‘Southwark standing upon the River Thames, between the Breggehouse and the Church of Saint Olave.’ By this we know it to be ancient, for that grant was made in the year 1281. And now I will say no more of St. Olave, but that a very full and interesting memoir of him, and his miracles, is to be found in that gigantic work entitled the ‘_Acta Sanctorum_,’ Antwerp, 1643-1786, 50 volumes, folio, and yet incomplete, for the year descends to October only:--see the seventh volume of July, pages 87-120. “And now let me chaunt you his Requiem, by giving you, from the same authority, a free translation of the concluding stanza of that Latin Hymn to his memory, which Johannes Bosch tells us was inserted in the Swedish Missal, and sung on his festival; it is in the same measure as the original. ‘Martyr’d King! in triumph shining, Guardian Saint, whom bliss is ’shrining; To thy spirit’s sons inclining From a sinful world’s confining By thy might, Oh set them free! Carnal bonds are round them ’twining, Fiendish arts are undermining, All with deadly plagues are pining, But thy power and prayers combining, Safely shall we rise to thee!--AMEN.’ “One of the last notices of London Bridge which occurs in the days of King Ethelred, and I place it here because it is without date, is in his Laws, as they are given in the ‘_Chronicon_’ of John Brompton, Abbot of Jorvaulx, in the City of York, who lived about the year 1328. His work was printed in Twysden’s Scriptores, which I last quoted; and at column 897, in the xxiii. Chapter of the Statutes there given, is the following passage. “‘_Concerning the Tolls given at Bylyngesgate._