as stated by Stow) was the generous friend and patron of
Caxton and the art of printing; and it was by permission of this learned
monk that our printer was allowed the use of the building in question.

The _old_ chapel of St. Anne stood in the New-way, near the back of the
workhouse, at the bottom of the almonry leading to what is now called
Stratton Ground. It was pulled down, I believe, about the middle of the
seventeenth century. The _new_ chapel of St. Anne, erected in 1631, near
the site of the old one, was destroyed about fifty years since.

Mr. Cunningham, in his _Handbook for London_ (vol. i. p. 17.), says,--

"The first printing-press ever seen in England was set up in
this almonry under the patronage of _Esteney_, Abbot of
Westminster, by William Caxton, citizen and mercer (d. 1483)."

Esteney succeeded Milling in the Abbacy of Westminster, but the latter
did not die before 1492. On p. 520. of his second volume, Mr. Cunninghan
gives the date of Caxton's death correctly, i.e. 1491.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

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SANATORY LAWS IN OTHER DAYS.

In that curious medley commonly designated, after Hearne, _Arnold's
Chronicle_, and which was probably first printed in 1502 or 1503, we
find the following passages. I make "notes" of them, from their peculiar
interest at the moment when sanatory bills, having the same objects, are
occupying the public attention so strongly; especially in respect to the
Smithfield Nuisance and the Clergy Discipline bill.

1. In a paper entitled "The articles dishired bi y'e comonse of the cety
of London, for reformacyo of thingis to the same, of the Mayer,
Aldirmen, and Comon Counsell, to be enacted," we have the following:--

"Also that in anoyding the corupte savours and lothsom innoyaunc
(caused by slaughter of best) w'tin the cyte, wherby moche
people is corupte and infecte, it may plese my Lord Mayr,
Aldirmen, and Comen Counsaile, to put in execucion a certaine
acte of parlement, by whiche it is ordeigned y't no such
slaughter of best shuld be vsed or had within this cite, and
that suche penaltees be leuyed vpo the contrary doers as in the
said acte of parlement ben expressed.

"Also in anoyding of lyke annoyauce. Plese it my Lord Mair,
Alderme, and Como Councell, to enact that noo manor pulter or
any other persone i this cytee kepe from hinsforth, within his
hous, swans, gies, or