Shakespeare's London
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But this common field, I say, being sometime the beauty of this city on that part, is so encroached upon by buildings of filthy cottages, and other purpressors, inclosures, and lay stalls, (notwithstanding all proclamations and acts of Parliament made to the contrary), that in some places it scarce remaineth a suflScient highway for the meeting of carriages and droves of cattle; much less is there any fair, pleasant, or wholesome way for people to walk on foot ; which is no small blemish to so ...famous a city to have so unsavoury and unseemly an entrance or passage thereunto." (Stow.) In proceeding eastward along Comhill and Leadenhall we have omitted to mention Lombard Street, which is south of and forming a ahaip THE MAIN HIGHWAY 189 angle to Comhill. From the earliest times this street was the residence of all kinds of merchants, but especially the goldsmiths and money lenders.
Price records the names of about seventy gold- smiths living in Lombard Street during the reign of Elizabeth, among whom was Gresham, the builder of the Royal Exchange.
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But this common field, I say, being sometime the beauty of this city on that part, is so encroached upon by buildings of filthy cottages, and other purpressors, inclosures, and lay stalls, (notwithstanding all proclamations and acts of Parliament made to the contrary), that in some places it scarce remaineth a suflScient highway for the meeting of carriages and droves of cattle; much less is there any fair, pleasant, or wholesome way for people to walk on foot ; which is no small blemish to so ...famous a city to have so unsavoury and unseemly an entrance or passage thereunto." (Stow.) In proceeding eastward along Comhill and Leadenhall we have omitted to mention Lombard Street, which is south of and forming a ahaip THE MAIN HIGHWAY 189 angle to Comhill. From the earliest times this street was the residence of all kinds of merchants, but especially the goldsmiths and money lenders.
Price records the names of about seventy gold- smiths living in Lombard Street during the reign of Elizabeth, among whom was Gresham, the builder of the Royal Exchange.
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