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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 a i tő öl a3 ene a gy ee a
