[146] This passage is printed very incorrectly, and as prose, by Stow, who makes the date “twice thirty and ten,” _i.e._ 1370 (which is certainly the date of Chichester’s mayoralty), instead of “twice twenty and ten,” _i.e._ 1350, which is the reading of the MSS. and of the two early printed editions. [147] “Cornhill street, in some place raysed two fadome higher than of olde time, as appeared by buildings found so deepe.”--_Stow._ [148] “As they call it.”--_1st edition_, p. 123. [149] “Reserving the churchyard for a garden plot.”--_1st edition_, p. 124. [150] Liber Papie. BISHOPSGATE WARD The next is Bishopsgate ward; whereof a part is without the gate and of the suburbs, from the bars by St. Mary Spittle to Bishopsgate, and a part of Houndsditch; almost half thereof, also without the wall, is of the same ward. Then within the gate is Bishopsgate street, so called of the gate, to a pump, where sometimes was a fair well, with two buckets, by the east end of the parish church of St. Martin Oteswich, and then winding by the west corner of Leaden hall down Grass street to the corner over against Grass church; and this is the bounds of that ward. Monuments most to be noted are these: The parish church of St. Buttolph without Bishopsgate, in a fair churchyard, adjoining to the town ditch, upon the very bank thereof, but of old time inclosed with a comely wall of brick, lately repaired by Sir William Allen, mayor, in the year 1571, because he was born in that parish, where also he was buried. An anchoress received 40_s._ the year of the sheriffs of London. Now without this churchyard wall is a causeye, leading to a quadrant, called Petty France, of Frenchmen dwelling there, and to other dwelling-houses, lately built on the bank of the said ditch by some citizens of London, that more regarded their own private gain than the common good of the city; for by means of this causeye raised on the bank, and soilage of houses, with other filthiness cast into the ditch, the same is now forced to a narrow channel, and almost filled up with unsavoury things, to the danger of impoisoning the whole city.