ue, and his widow, Alesia de Lacy, married secondly Ebulo
Lestrange,[80] in whose family the manor remained until 1480, when it
passed by marriage to the Stanleys, Earls of Derby.[81] In 1602 it was
sold by the widow of Ferdinando, fifth earl, to Lord Buckhurst,[82]
afterwards Earl of Dorset, under whose immediate successor it was broken
up for building purposes.

The street of Holborn was at first simply the King's Street; afterwards
it acquired the name of Holebourne-Bridge-strate. From Newgate to a
little way west of St. Sepulchre's Church the high-road was known as "la
Baillie"; from thence it bore the same name as the river, being carried
over the bridge on to the ridge along which the Romans had built their
military stone-way, known as Watling Street, out of which, in the year
1300, there turned two streets towards the south, namely, Scho Lane and
Faitur Lane, and two towards the north, one called "le Vrunelane,"[83]
afterwards Lyverounelane, then Lyver Lane, now Leather Lane, and the
other called Portpool Lane, now Gray's Inn Road.

The justiciars, clerks in Chancery, and serjeants had frequent cause to
protest against the manner in which the stream of Holeburn was being
defiled. In the Parliament of Barons held in 1307, the Earl of Lincoln,
whose Inn was in close proximity, complained that

"whereas formerly ten and twelve ships were wont to come to
Flete Bridge and some of them to Holeburn Bridge, now, by the
filth of the tanners and others, by the erection of wharfs,
especially by them of the New Temple for their mills without
Baynard's Castle, and by other impediments, the course was
decayed so that ships could not enter as they were wont."[84]

Later on, in 1371, a writ was issued by Edward III. to the mayor and
sheriffs to the effect that

"Upon the open information as well of our Justiciars and our
Clerks in Chancery and our other Officers, as of other
reputable men now living in Fletestrete, Holebourne and
Smythfeld, we have heard that certain butchers of the said
city, giving no heed to our Ordinance, have slain large beasts
within the said city and have thrown the blood and entrails
thereof in divers places near Holbournebrigge and elsewhere in
the suburb aforesaid, from which abominations and stenches, and
the air affected thereby, sicknesses and very many other
maladies have befallen our Officers aforesaid and other p