ainst it;
declaring that they were not against erecting a church, but only against
erecting it in the place mentioned in the Bill; since by the Act for
rebuilding the city, the site and churchyard of St. Martin Orgar was
directed to be enclosed with a wall, and laid open for a burying-place
for the parish.

The tame statue of that honest but commonplace monarch, William IV., at
the end of King William Street, is of granite, and the work of a Mr.
Nixon. It cost upwards of L2,000, of which L1,600 was voted by the
Common Council of London. It is fifteen feet three inches in height,
weighs twenty tons, and is chiefly memorable as marking the site of the
famous "Boar's Head" tavern.

The opening of the Cannon Street Extension Railway, September, 1866,
provided a communication with Charing Cross and London Bridge, and
through it with the whole of the South-Eastern system. The bridge across
the Thames approaching the station has five lines of rails; the curves
branching east and west to Charing Cross and London Bridge have three
lines, and in the station there are nine lines of rails and five
spacious platforms, one of them having a double carriage road for exit
and entrance. The signal-box at the entrance to the Cannon Street
station extends from one side of the bridge to the other, and has a
range of over eighty levers, coloured red for danger-signals, and green
for safety and going out. The hotel at Cannon Street Station, a handsome
building, is after the design by Mr. Barry. Arrangements were made for
the reception of about 20,000,000 passengers yearly.

CHAPTER XLIX.

CANNON STREET TRIBUTARIES AND EASTCHEAP.

Budge Row--Cordwainers' Hall--St. Swithin's Church--Founders'
Hall--The Oldest Street in London--Tower Royal and the Wat Tyler
Mob--The Queen's Wardrobe--St. Antholin's Church--"St. Antlin's
Bell"--The London Fire Brigade--Captain Shaw's Statistics--St. Mary
Aldermary--A Quaint Epitaph--Crooked Lane--An Early "Gun
Accident"--St. Michael's and Sir William Walworth's
Epitaph--Gerard's Hall and its History--The Early Closing
Movement--St. Mary Woolchurch--Roman Remains in Nicholas Lane--St.
Stephen's, Walbrook--Eastcheap and the Cooks' Shops--The "Boar's
Head"--Prince Hal and his Companions--A Giant
Plum-pudding--Goldsmith at the "Boar's Head"--The Weigh-house Chapel
and its Famous Preachers--Reynolds, Clayton, Binney.

Budge Row derived its name from the s