a half-timbered building, erected probably about the time of Elizabeth. The interior is sufficiently described by the accompanying engraving, presented by the liberality of the Drapers’ Company. The apartment is 28 feet by 20, but was originally of larger dimensions. It is wainscotted with fine old oak, and the floor was once rich in emblazoned tiles. At the north end is the upper place, or “dais,” where the members “feasted full and high;” and on the opposite side stands a fine old chest, with richly carved ornaments; above which is a painting said to represent the first steward of the company, Degory Watur, and his wife; this originally stood on the front of the hall house occupied by Degory in the almshouses. The east side is decorated with a portrait of Edward the Fourth, denoting round the circumference his titles and decease in 1483. Beneath are the following lines:— This Yeare fourth Edward York’s farre fam’d renowne Circled his temples with great Albion’s crowne; When over reading the memoriale Of Salop’s Draper’s Ancient Hospitale, Founded in honour of the sacred Deity, He own’d and stiled them then, the blest Society; And with his Parliament’s sage approbation Deigned them his Charter for a Corporation, Which to confirme Himself was pleas’d to be The Royal Founder of their Companie, Granting immunities of large extent, Which stand his bounties gratefull monument. Edwardo 4º regi Anglorum Gloriosissimo monumentum Hoc posuit Pannariorum Salopiensium grata Societas. Returning from this hall, which is the only one appropriated to its original purpose, to the left is DOGPOLE (from Doke or Duck, to decline, and Poll, the head or summit); the street having an abrupt descent towards the river, to which there was formerly a communication. To the right is St. Mary’s Street and the Almshouses. This street was very narrow until the year 1824, when several old buildings were taken down. Pursuing our course along CHURCH STREET, we pass the site and remnant of a half-timbered house, distinguished by gables, which formed a portion of JONES’S MANSION, in which the Duke of York resided when he accompanied his royal father to this town in 1642. It was also the abode of “Prince Rupert, when he joined his uncle after the brilliant action of Worcester.” This house was built by Thos. Jones, Esq. whose burial is noticed in the account of the adjoining church of St. Alkmond. Leaving that sacred edifice to the left, and turning a few yards to the right, we arrive at the DOUBLE BUTCHER ROW, a street chiefly occupied by butcher’s shambles, and where is an ANCIENT TIMBER HOUSE, considered to be one of the oldest and largest of this kind of buildings of which our town displays so many specimens.