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ascend the hill we pass the
hay
and grass markets,
marked probably by such
names as Fen-church, "fen "
being the same as the French
“foin,” and Gracechurch, or
Grass-church. A little farther
to the right is the head¬
quarters of the “ bell-jetters”
or founders, commonly called
“potters, from the metal pots
they made which were in great
we are in Eastcheap. Some very tangible
relics of this ancient market-place still
remain. It lay wholly on the right of
the old road towards Bishopsgate, and is
now represented by Billingsgate Market
on the south and by Leadenhall Market
on the north. The intermediate space,
now all built over, was, at the time of
which we are speaking, after the middle
of the thirteenth century, nearly all open,
except, perhaps, for some more or less
permanent booths and shops which en¬
As we
croached on its boundaries.