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70 THE GROWTH OF THE CITY
demand. Walter le Poter, a wealthy alderman, was of this trade, and
presented all the brazen pots necessary for the kitchen, infirmary, and
other offices of the Grey Friars. The site of these metal-workers’ factories
is still marked by Billiter Square.’ Next to them, and nearer our line
of progress northward, were the lead-workers, whose name remains in
Leadenhall. Crossing Cornhill, where possibly there was a corn-market
—hbut there are difficulties in this theory—we come to Bishopsgate
Street. The fine new nunnery of St. Helen, with its extensive gardens,
is on the right, and then some of the best houses in London line the
roadway, at the end of which is the Bishops-gate, standing a little
to the left of the Roman gate which it represents, as the street from :
the new bridge 1s a little to the left of the old line of lanes, of which
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