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London, England, 1825-07-27 00:00:00

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ORIGIN OF THE NAMES OF VARIOUS
?4EI OF THS JUMP.=

PROM Via aff IRO&
Clerkeoureg—Here was formerly a well, at which
the parish clerks of London were accustomed to meet
annually, to perform their mysteries or sacred drama-
tical plays : hence the name Clerkenwell. In 1409
they performed the Creation of the World, which lasted
eight days, and most of the Nobility and Gentry
honoured them with their presence.-
Drury Lane.—Near this place stood Drury House,
the habitation of the great family of the Drurys—built
by Sir William Drury, K.G. from which it derived its
title. It is singular that this lane, of later times so no-
torious fur intrigue, should receive its title from a
family name, which, in the language of Chaucer, had
an amorous signification
Of batailie sad of Amide,.
Of Ladies' love aad drastic,
Awn I wol you ten.
Duke's Place (City).the grearresort of the Jews,-took
it;; name from Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, who, in 1562
had his residence there.
Eastekeap, from Chepe, a market, and East, the
aspect it bears to the Chepeside. This street was famous,
in old times, for its coovivial doings. " The cookes
cried hot ribbes of beef toasted ; pies well baked, and
other victuals. There was clattering of pewter pots,
harpe, pipe, and sawtrie." Evident marks of the jollity
of this quarter.
Goodman's Fields, from farmer Goodman, who had
a farm here—" at which farme I myselfe (says Stowe)
in my youth, have fetched snanye a halfe-pent'-worth
of milk, and never had Jesse than three ale pints for a
halfe-pent' in the summer, nor lesse than one ale
quarte for a halfe-peny in the winter, alwaies hot from
the kine." •
Halton Garden, from the residence of the Lords
llattan, built on the gardens belonging to Ely House,
which were famous for strawberries: recorded by
Iloilinshed, who informs us, that Richard 111. at the
council held in the Tower the morning he put Hastings
to death, sent to request a dish of them. Sir C. Hatton,
the founder, was a great favourite with Queen Eliza-
beth, and by her intereat he extorted the gardens from
the iiishop of Ely, Richard Cox, who for a long time
misted the sacrilege. Her letter to the pour Bishop
WAS diciated in terms as insolent as indecent :
" Proud P: elate ! you know what you was before I made you
what you are now. If you do not immediately comply with my
request, by • " I will unfrock you. " El. IZ A BET IL"
Tall Mall and the Mall (St..lames's Park), take their tides from
being used as a walk, or a place for the exercise of the Mall, a game
lung since disused.
Peerless Poul,was originally called Perilous Pool, front the cumber
of youths who had been drowned in it while swintining.
Piccadilly, from I'iccadilla It.ll, built by one Higgins, a tailor,
and so called because he got his estate by making stiff collars, in
the fashion of a band, then called Piccadillas, or Turnovers, for-
merly much in fashion.

The last number of the Journal de Cadiz crntains
some s ngular admissions for a paper !minted under
the immediate eye of the Spanish Government. It is
stated that the gars isms of Cochabamba, in Peau,ded area
itself independent, and that in an afft ay between the
Patriots and the Royalist garrison of Callao, the latter
had 150 killed, 19 wounded, and lost many prisoners,
hilst he forma lost only twenty•sis killed, and twenty-
three wounded.
The four Canadian Chiefs have taken their passage
in the Caledunia merchantman, w hick sails un S rtorady
for Quebec. They appea- delighted with their excur-
sion to. England, earticulaily at the attention paid to
them in the metropolis.
.At tl.e late Gluucester S!ssinns the Chair man stated,
that the charge incurred by the County at the last As-
sizes, for prosecutions alone, independent of the expense
of commitmetos and maintenance of prisoners,arnounted
to not less than 1,6001.
Sunday m:irning e illy an alarming fine broke out et
Epping, in the premises of Mr. MacMurtite. stationer,
ot that town, which consumed his dwelling-horse,
steak in trade, and every article of his hoesehald fur-
eitur e. Two houses adjoining were also,eiestroyed, in-
cluding a chymist's shop; and several others were ma-
terially damaged. Every effort was made to save the
property, but in vain. The fire burnt with so much
fury, that Mr. MaeMortlie and his. family were in great
danger, and narrowly escaped with their lives.
Monday, a man named Edward Page, who has
suffered seven years' transportation for hous:-breaking,
was taken to Urion-hall, charged with stealing a
double-barrelled fowling-piece, scale 121. the property
of a &avian Gentleman, named Nurinex, residing in
Camden Town. The evidence appeared to the Sitting
M3gistrate to be conclusive, and the prisoner was fully
committed for trial.
Monday se'nnight, Peter Gaol was 11.inged at Dun-
dalk, for tie robbery and murder of limes M.!ckey,
at Drcmcal, on the 7th of November last.
Ila statute •:;th George 11. e. 37, it was felony s idiom
'week of Clergy to destroy an ash. Dr. A•lr, a great
;t and friend ot Swift, was once wet through v. ith the
rain, and upon going into an inn, a.ked the waiter to
strip off his coat for him? upon which the water started
and said he would not, for it was felony to ship au Ash.
Dr. Ash used to say he would have given Ivl. to have
been the author of that pun.
A carrier pigeon being killed on its way from Scan-
daroon to Aleppo, the letter conveyed by it, instead of
eaching the person for whom it was intended, fell into
tl.e Lands of a European merchant of a different nation.
It contained information of the excessive price to which
gall-nuts, the most valuable article of commerce pro-
cured from Aleppo, had risen in Europe. The mer-
chant who had thus obtained the notice immediately
bought up all the gall•nuts he could find, and by this
means acquired a very considerable gain. The circum.
stance naturally produced a great deal of jealousy and
ill-will among the Europeans, and, at length, to prevent
the chance of a repetition of such dishonourable con-
duct, it was resolved by them, that in future no couriers
of the kind .should be used. Since that period therefore
the practice has been discontinued. The pigeons had
been known to perform the journey in two hours and a
half. The distance between the two places is between
60 and 70 miles in a straight line.
Wizen a Jew, who was . a famous Dutch printer,
brought to Constantinople printing presses, &c. to in
troduce the art of printing in that city, the Vizier
caused him to be banged, declaring that it would be a
great cruelty that one man should enrich himself by
taking the bread of eleven thousand scribes, who gained
their living by their pen.
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