Stranica 83 [83]
MONUMENT TO GOLDSMITH, TEMPLE CHURCH
have seemed little better than open
boats; and a fleet of still smaller boats
would be above the bridge at Dow¬
gate. Southwark bridge was not built
for many centuries, and while the old
bridge still existed, a short distance
farther east than its successor, the
chief fish-market was here, and the
line of Old Fish Street probably marks
the site and also shows us how much
the edge of the river has receded.
Before the Conquest the city wall east
of Billingsgate came down to the water
just where the Wakefield Tower is
now, and there can have been no such
street as [Thames Street. Goods were
landed at the gate of Billing and sold
hundred years, from
the Conquest to
Henry III, we shall
observe a great
mie
change. We might
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pause at Fitz Ste¬
phen’s account of
EFT PA LL It
London in 1170, or
thereabouts; but it
has been very often
quoted, and tells us
more about the citi¬
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