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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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the following graceful elegy upon the death of James Spiller in 1729 :— Down with your marrow-bones and cleavers all, And on your marrow-bones ye butchers fall ;For prayers from you who never juayed before Perhaps poor Jemmy may to life restore. Clare Market, says a contemporary writer, thatthe house is every day as full as the Bear Gardens, and draws the City wives and prentices out of London much more than a man hanged in chains. Clare Market has of late years been much improved by the establishment of a mission chapel and schools in its centre, around which other benevolent and charitable institutions have gradually been grouped, such as a soup-kitchen, a home for ^omen, and a working mens club. Adjoining Glare Market are Holies and Denzil Streets, the latter so called, as we are told by a mural tablet on one of its houses, by Gilbert, Earl of Clare, in memory of his uncle Denzil, Lord Holies, who died in i6;<;, a great honour to his Lincolns Inn Fields.) LINCOLNS INN FIELDS. 43
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NEWCASTLE HOUSE
SIR JOHN SOANE'S HOUSE
The Duke of Ancaster's House, Lincoln's Inn Fields (later named Lindsey House, Lincoln's Inn Fields)
(Lincolns Inn Fields name, and the exact paturne of his fathers greatmeritt, John, Earl of Clare. This Lord Holies, itwill be remembered, was one of the five members of the House of Commons whose person Charles Lmade an ineffectual effort to seize. Holies Street, which runs into Stanhope Street,was built in 1647, and was called, like its neigh-bour Denzil Street, after Holies, Earl of Clare. Of Vere Street, which runs northwards parallel to Stanhope Street, we know little except whatMr. Peter Cunningham has told us, namely, thatin 1688 it numbered among its inhabitants SirThomas Lyttelton and also the poet Ogilby, whohere disposed of his books by a lottery ; and thatin it stood Gibbons Tennis Court, subsequently converted into a theatre by Killigrew. Of Stan-hope Street, in spite of its grand name, Ave haveno interesting memories to record. CHAPTER VH. LINCOLNS INN FI

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