The Temple alone would occupy a long chapter, and detain us in this locality far beyond the limits that our pages allow, so we shall without further apology pass through Temple Bar and enter the Strand. CHAPTER XIII. THE STRAND, ADELPHI, AND COVENT-GARDEN MARKET. We have now quitted the City and entered the Strand; before us stands the Church of St. Clement Danes, on the right of which an archway opens into Clement's Inn; beyond that is the old Angel Inn, from which Bishop Hooper was taken before he suffered martyrdom at Gloucester three centuries ago. Justice Shallow says: "I was once of Clement's Inn, where I think they will talk of mad Shallow yet;" and no sooner is his back turned than Falstaff says: "I do remember him at Clement's Inn, like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring;" * * * "he was for all the world like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife." Of the early church that occupied the site of the present one but little is really known. Stowe tells us that it was "so called, because Harold, a Danish king, and other Danes, were buried there." There is a doubt whether Harold, who ascended the throne after Canute, was in any way related to the latter; his pretended mother, Algigiva, was never married to Canute, and it is recorded that she never had a child, but that Harold, who passed for her son, had no higher origin than a poor cobbler for his father. Harold was buried at Westminster; but when Hardicanute (the legitimate son of Canute) came to England, he ordered the body of Harold to be disinterred, decapitated, and thrown into the Thames. The body was taken out of the river by some Danish fishermen, and again interred in a cemetery in London, where only the Danes buried their dead. We have not entered into the reign of Harold at all; these few facts are all that history records of the origin of St. Clement Danes. The present church was built by Pierce under the guidance of Wren. The old church was pulled down in 1660. Dr. Johnson had a sitting in the present church. The interior is heavily decorated with festoons and drops, and contains two tolerable statues of Moses and Aaron. Facing this church stands the office of the far-famed _Illustrated London News_, in the columns of which paper the greater portion of these sketches originally appeared. You still hear a few of the old London cries in the by-streets that branch out of this busy neighbourhood, though many, which the "oldest inhabitants" can just remember, are heard no more.