PETERBOROUGH _court_, Fleet street. _St._ PETER AD VINCULA, situated to the north west corner of Northumberland walk, at the end of the new armoury, in the Tower; was founded by King Edward III. and dedicated by the name of _St. Peter in Chains_, or St. Peter ad Vincula. This is a plain Gothic building void of all ornament, sixty-six feet in length, fifty-four in breadth, and twenty-four feet high from the floor to the roof. The walls, which have Gothic windows, are strengthened at the corners with rustic, and crowned with a plain blocking course. The tower is plain, and is crowned with a turret. The living is a rectory in the gift of the King, valued at about 60_l._ a year. The Rector, as Minister of the Tower garrison, is paid by his Majesty; and the living is exempt from archiepiscopal jurisdiction. Among the several monuments in this church is a grave stone, under which lies buried Mr. James Whittaker, his wife and children; and upon that stone are the following lines. See how the just, the virtuous, and the strong, The beautiful, the innocent, the young, Here in promiscuous dust, together lie. Reflect on this, depart, and learn to die. In this church lie the ashes of many noble, and some royal personages, executed either in the Tower, or on the hill, and deposited here in obscurity; particularly, George Bullen, Lord Rochford, who was beheaded on Tower hill on the 17th of May, 1536. Anne Bullen, wife to King Henry VIII. beheaded two days after, on a scaffold erected on the green, within the Tower. Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, who from a blacksmith’s son at Putney, became the favourite of Henry VIII. and one of the most zealous promoters of the reformation from popery; but was beheaded on Tower hill in the year 1540. Catharine Howard, the fifth wife of King Henry VIII. beheaded on Tower hill on the 13th of February, 1541. Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, beheaded on Tower hill, on the 24th of June, 1552. John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, who lost his head at the same place, on the 22d of Aug. 1553. Under the communion table, lies the body of James Duke of Monmouth, the natural son of King Charles II. beheaded for asserting his right to the crown, in opposition to James II. on the 15th of July, 1683. _St._ PETER’S _alley_, by St. Peter’s church, Cornhill. _St._ PETER’S _Cheap_, a church, which stood at the corner of Wood street Cheapside, in Faringdon ward within, but being destroyed by the fire of London in 1666, the parish was united to St. Matthew, Friday street.