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ILLUSTRATION S.

TOWER OF LONDon, in the ReigN OF HENRY V. to face the Title.

PLAN OF ST. GILES'S IN THE FIELDS, TIME OF QUEEN

ELIZABETH,.

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PLAN OF THE PALACE OF WHITEHALL, 1680,................
PLAN OF THE RIVER THAMES, SHEWING THE CORRESPOND-
ING SITES OF ANCIENT AND MODERN BUILDINGS...
PLAN OF THE TOWER AND ITS LIBERTIES, TIME OF QUEEN

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LITERARY AND HISTORICAL

MEMORIALS OF LONDON.

THE HAYMARKET, LEICESTER SQUARE, AND ST. MARTIN'S IN THE FIELDS.

HAYMARKET.-HAYMARKET THEATRE.-SUFFOLK HOUSE.-LEICESTER

SQUARE. ANECDOTE OF GOLDSMITH.-ST. MARTIN'S LANE, CHURCH, AND CHURCHYARD. -SOHO SQUARE.-WARDour, AND OXFORD STREETS.-RATHBONE PLACE.

As late as the last days of the Protectorate, the tract of ground to the north, between Pall Mall and the villages of Hampstead and Highgate, consisted almost entirely of open country. St. Martin's Church stood literally in the fields; Whitcombe Street was then Hedge Lane; St. Martin's Lane and the Haymarket were really shady lanes with hedges on each side of them; the small village of St. Giles stood in the fields a little to the east; a windmill, surrounded by one or two scattered dwelling-houses, was to be seen where the present Windmill Street now stands; Leicester Square was occupied by

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