of WHITBREAD'S INTIRE was poured from a large bottle that had more excellent singularities than mere size to recommend it. After partaking of this plentiful regale, the royal visitants left Chiswell Street, highly satisfied with the various species of their entertainment.

The continuation of the street westward is called BEECH STREET, formerly BEECH LANE, which was so named from Nicholas de la Beech, lieutenant of the Tower of London, who was displaced in the thirteenth year of the reign of Ed

ward III.

Behind the houses on the north side of this street is a square place, which was for many years occupied by a market for meat, &c. and called RED LION MARKET.

At the back of the houses on the south side, in BEECH LANE, are eight almshouses built by the company of Drapers, in the year 1540, for eight poor widows of their own fraternity, according to the will of Lady Ann Askew, widow of Sir Christopher Askew, draper, mayor in 153, with an allowance of 31. and half a chaldron of coals per annum.

We are inclined to believe that this worthy lady was mother to a lady of both her names, whose sufferings in 1546 make humanity shudder. Anne Askew was a lady of queen Catharine Par's court, and was accused of denying Henry the Eighth's favourite position of the real presence in the sacrament. She was most inhumanly put to the rack in the Tower, to make her discover her patrons and abettors at court, among whom the queen herself was suspected to be the chief; but her inflexible constancy and fidelity reflected no less honour on the unhappy sufferer, than shame on her tyrannical persecutor. She was condemned to be burned alive, and was so dislocated by the torture to which she had been put, that she was obliged to be carried to the stake in a chair. She was executed in Smithfield, in company with John Lassels, Nicholas Otorden priest, and J. Adlam, taylor. Dr. Shaxton, formerly bishop of Salisbury, recanted at the fire, and exhorted them to do the same; but they refused, and were martyred for their faith.

Near this place stood the antient residence of the abbots VOL. III. No. 64.

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of Ramsey, as early as the reign of Edward I. After the dissolution it came to the possession of Sir Drew Drewry, and was called Drewry House; it was also the residence of Peales prince Rupert, son of the king and queen of Bohemia, and 25 grandson of James I. This prince came to England to assist his uncle Charles I. about the time that monarch had erected his standard at Nottingham. He possessed in a high degree that kind of courage which is better to attack than defend, and is less adapted to the land service than that of the sea, where precipitate valour is in its element. He seldom engaged but he gained the advantage, which he generally lost by pursuing it too far. Having surrendered the city of Bristol to Sir Thomas Fairfax, almost as soon as he appeared before it, his uncle deprived him of all his commissions. After his cousin Charles II. was restored, prince Rupert commanded the fleet in conjunction with Monk, duke of Albemarle, in 1666. His courage in this war is mentioned with high encomiums by poets and historians; but he richly deserved them. In the war with the Dutch, he seemed to retain all the activity and fire of his youth, and beat the enemy in several engagements. He was also celebrated for his ingenuity, and for the invention of mezzotinto, of which he is said to have taken the hint from a soldier scraping his rusty fusil; it is also said that the first print of that kind ever published was the performance of the prince. He also invented the glass drops, and also a metal which was called by his name, in which guns were cast; and contrived an excellent method for boring them, for which purpose a water mill was erected at Hackney Marsh, to the great detriment of the undertaker, as the secret died with the illustrious inventor. He communicated to Mr. Christopher Kirby, whose descendant afterwards lived in Crowder's-well Alley, Jewin Street, the secret of tempering the best fish-hooks in England.*

It is said that Charles I. paid the prince a visit in this house, and that the ringers of St. Giles, Cripplegate had a gratuity for complimenting the royal guest with a peal.— Prince Rupert in his advanced life removed to Spring Gardens, where he died, on the 29th of November, 1682. It was lately inhabited by a currier.

Granger.

In GLOVERS' COURT stood GLOVERS' HALL, which having been long deserted by the company, was converted to other purposes.

The COMPANY OF GLOVERS, were not incorporated till the 14th of Car. I. who, on the fifth of September, in the year 1638, granted them a charter by the name and style of "THE MASTER, WARDENS, AND FELLOWSHIP OF THE COMPANY OF GLOVERS OF THE CITY OF London." It is a livery company, governed by a master, four wardens, and a court of assistants.

GOLDEN LANE is a very mean street, and indifferently inhabited. Here Richard Gallard, Esq. of Islington, citizen and painter-stainer, founded thirteen alms-houses for as many poor people, and endowed each with two-pence per week, and a load of coals divided yearly among them. These donations were charged upon certain lands in Islington.

GOLDEN LANE BREWERY.

We come now to speak of a concern of the most liberal nature, which at the same time that it benefits the labouring classes of men by its utility, preserves their health, and furnishes them with wholesome beverage unincumbered by monopoly and extortion.

For a considerable time, the extreme bad quality of what was denominated malt liquor had been a subject of serious complaint. The chemical preparations and drugs infused into the composition called PORTER, and its deleterious and hurtful qualities, had long determined the generality of citizens to refuse a beverage, the ingredients of which initiated a constant course of bodily disorder. This determination, however, could not become general; because the labouring poor, accustomed to the varieties of business or toilsome exercise, were in need of some succedaneum, to support them under fatigue; and as they were unable to procure a nutritious and wholesome drink, they gladly resorted to the first substitute which presented itself, and which appeared in the horrid form of malt spirit, the immoderate use of which not only weakened the frame, but tended more to contaminate the morals of society than any other vicious habit.

Good malt liquor had always been considered in the highest degree wholesome. It had been recommended by the most able professors of medicine, who constantly affirmed, "that in respect to strength, clearness of complexion, and soundness of constitution, no persons excelled so much as those who were steadily accustomed to drink moderately of this kind of beverage."

At this important moment, a plan of a public brewery was proiected by a gentleman of the name of Brown, and which was supported b several liberal minded persons, in conjunction with a number of retailers of porter and ale; and soon after, the premises in question were taken for the purpose of carrying the good intentions of the projector into effect.

Their obiect has been to introduce a wholesome and comfortable beverage, whereby the community might be supplied with a commodity brewed from malt and hops, and to provide for the poorer classes (who were more in need of it) an article that would stand the test of examination, and be found to possess all those salubrious qualities that once rendered malt liquor desirable; they have not entered into a discussion of what materials beer should or should not be composed; they have only considered the health of the public, and promised nothing more than they would endeavour to perform, by restoring to the public what in former times constituted the most wholesome potation in the country.

The mode which they pursued was by means of shares of 501. each, which were to be paid by instalments; the first instalment having been advanced, by way of guarantee, no further call was to be made until the whole of the property should be legally secured, and the necessary deeds attached to it duly executed.

The applications for shares were numerous; vast numbers of respectable publicans proposed to sell the porter of this brewery, which is carried on under the firm of Brown and Parry, and so successful has it been, that upwards of fiftyseven thousand barrels were brewed in the first year of its commence Dent, making it the eighth house among the London breweries, and there is no doubt but, if conducted upon its present extensive scale, will by the industry of its projector

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and supporters, be equal to every promise of supplying the public with genuine malt liquor, as well as be the means of keeping it at a fair price.

Higher towards the north is a building with various figures, Exha on the site of which originally stood the nursery for the chil-Pales dren of Henry VIII. P24 Mr. Alleyn, an eminent comedian, and the founder of Dulwich college, where we shall speak more fully of him, purchased the lease of these premises of one Brest, for 2407. he then built the play-house, which he denominated, "THE FORTUNE," that cost him 5201 and for private buildings 1201, so that the whole amounted when. it was finished, in 1599, to the sum of 8801. It was a square building, eighty feet on each side, partly raised upon piles. The basement was of brick, on which was raised a frame of three stories, the first twelve feet, the second eleven feet, and the third nine feet in height, which were formed into divisions of gentlemens' and two-penny rooms. The area in the interior was a square of fifty-five feet; the stage was forty-three feet in length, and it extended to the middle of the area. The stage and dressing room was covered; and the area was open. The supporters were converted into pilasters crowned with satyrs. Thus the whole audience sat exposed to the uncertainty of the weather. The performances were by day-light; for the air must consequently have extinguished lamps or candles. This must have been a most uncomfortable situation for performers, considering the active or passive characters they alternately exhibited.

As, however, many of our readers may not have seen an antient theatrical conveyance of property, we submit the following extracts for their entertainment :

"Agreement between Philip Henslowe and Edward Alleyn, Esquires; and Thomas Downton," (Doughton, or Dowten) who it seems had been an hireling at eight shillings per week "as long as they play, and after they lye stylle one fortnyght, then to give hime halfe wages." The forfeiture for non-performance of articles was 407. if he played in any other house in or about London without leave.

The agreement made in 1608 stated, that in consideration of twenty and seven pounds and ten shillings, they demised,

farmed,