ribes it, laid out in gardens--cows are grazing
in some parts of it--and there are mean houses built on the other side
of it. There is a single street of houses with large gardens outside
Aldgate, which is now Whitechapel. The north side of Houndsditch is
already built. A street of houses runs north of Bishopsgate. No houses
stand between this street and two or three streets outside Cripplegate.
Moorfields are really fields. There are windmills, gardens with
summer-houses, pasture-fields with cows, a large 'dogge house,' and
fields where women appear to be laying out clothes to dry. Really, they
are tenter fields, i.e. fields provided with 'tenters,' or pegs, by
means of which cloth could be stretched. North of Moorfields is
indicated rising ground with woods. There can be no doubt at all as to
the course of the wall, which is here marked with the greatest
clearness. On the east of the Tower there is already a crowded quarter
in the Precinct of St. Katherine's: and a few buildings mark the former
site of the great monastery of Eastminster. In the Minories a group of
new houses marks the site of the nunnery which stood here. London Bridge
is covered with houses: on Bank Side, Southwark, there are two round
buildings, 'The Bearebayting' and 'The Bullebayting.' There is also,
opposite to Blackfriars, Paris Garden, a very favourite place of resort
for the citizens. But as yet there are no theatres. Along the river
outside the walls we find, beyond Bridewell Palace, an open space where
was formerly Whitefriars. Here presently grew up a curious colony called
Alsatia, which claimed to retain the right of Sanctuary once belonging
to the monastery. Arrests for debt could not be made within its limits.
That is to say, it was so claimed by the residents, who resisted any
attempt to violate this privilege by force of arms. It was a notorious
place in the seventeenth century, filled with rogues and broken-down
gamblers, spendthrifts and profligates. As yet (when this map was drawn)
there are very few houses between Whitefriars and the Temple. Beyond the
Temple there are marked Arundel Place, Paget Place, Somerset Place, the
Savoy, York Place. Duresme--i.e. Durham--Place, and 'the Court'--i.e.
Whitehall--of which the map gives a plan, which gives us a clear idea of
the plan and appearance of this palace, of which only the Banqueting
Hall remains. The Savoy, at the time (1561) was a hospital. Henry VII.
made a hospital of it, dedicated