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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 headquarters 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 enAs we croached on its boundaries.
