Chepe, or old London market.

~East Chepe~, or the East Market, has given its name to Eastcheap, a
street running from the City towards the Tower.

~mercer~: a merchant selling woollens and silks.

~folkmotes~: the meetings of the folk or tribe: they met in arms in the
Saxon times, and were presided over by the alderman.

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~Tyburn~: a brook which gave its name to the place Tyburn, where the
Marble Arch now stands.

~Westbourne~: this brook has given its name to Westbourne Park, in
Paddington.

~Holywell~ may be remembered by Holywell Street, in the Strand.

~Clerkenwell~ is named after the Parish Clerks' Well, round which they
used to perform their 'mysteries.'

~quarterstaff~: a long staff used as a weapon of defence, and held in
the middle and also one quarter way from the end.

~tabor~: a kind of small drum beaten with one drumstick.

~consuls~: the chief magistrates of Rome: two of them with equal power
came into office every year.

~senatorial~: appointed and controlled by the senate or governing
council of Rome.

~venison~ (pronounced _ven'-zon_): the flesh of deer.

~cleric~: a clergyman.

~abbot~: the head of an abbey or monastery.

~magnate~: a great man, a man of great wealth and rank. (Latin _magnus_,
great.)

~metropolitan~: the bishop of a metropolis or chief cathedral city, as
Canterbury is the metropolis of England in this sense.

~ordinances~: laws, commands.

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~Architect~: one who designs buildings and superintends the building of
them.

~Jewry~: the district in a town inhabited by the Jews; for in early
times the Jews were not allowed to live where they liked, but only in
quarters assigned to them. The street now called Old Jewry turns out of
the Poultry, on the north side.

~essential~: something very important and that cannot be done without.

~intercommunication~: intercourse; dealings between people which are
made much easier by having good roads and bridges to travel on.

~La Rochelle~: a seaport in France on the Atlantic, some distance north
of Bordeaux.

~Saintes~: a French town about thirty-eight miles from La Rochelle.

~St. Thomas Becket~, the murdered Archbishop of Canterbury, who was
canonised, that is, named a saint after his death.

~titular~: giving his name to the bridge.

~crypt~: an underground or lower room used as a chapel or burying-place.

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