"The admiring mother being something surprised at her daughter's report, as also having no good opinion of her new lodgers, makes haste, good woman, and goes to the closet-door, and opening the lock with a knife, she entered into the closet, where she soon discerned it was not a crown but a mace, and having heard that such a thing was lost, sends immediately away to acquaint my Lord Chancellor that the mace was in her house; upon which information a warrant was soon granted, and officers sent to Mr. Thomas Northy, constable of Queenhithe ward, who, with a sufficient assistance, went into Knightrider-street to their lodging, and very luckily found them, being five in number, and of both sexes, viz. three men and two women, whom they carried before the Right Worshipful Sir William Turner, who, after examination, according to justice, committed them to the common jail of Newgate." It was only five years before that Colonel Blood had attempted to steal the crown from the Tower, but he--more fortunate than Sadler--escaped with his life, while the latter was hanged at Tyburn; the only one, we believe, who was executed for stealing the Lord Chancellor's mace and purses. What melancholy processions passed through Knightrider-street, as prisoners to the Tower, the old historian Stowe mentions not: like many another ancient street, it was often the highway of merriment and misery. St. Paul's School was founded by the venerable Dean Colet about the year 1500, who made the Company of Mercers his trustees. The present building was erected in 1824. At the commencement of June, when Anne Boleyn passed through the City on her way from the Tower to Westminster, to be crowned, we find, in Hall's _Chronicle_, that "at St. Paul's School, on a scaffold, stood two hundred children, well appareled, who recited various English versions of the ancient poets, to the honour of the king and queen, which her grace highly commended." To the church of St. Austin, or Augustin, Old Change and Watling-street, was united that of St. Faith under St. Paul's, after the Fire. The present church was built by Wren. The church of St. Faith stood in the crypt of old St. Paul's, beneath the choir. Fuller called it the "babe of old St. Paul's." The author of the _Ingoldsby Legends_, who has never been surpassed in the art of grafting modern incident on the stem of old ballad lore, was the rector of St. Augustin's.